Recent content by palomasfarm

We have put 300 lbs of feed through our feeder now with no issues and I am just beginning to get feed dust buildup in the bottom. We put our elbows about an inch off the bottom of the feeder, and feed locally milled organic feed, so it's not pellets or crumbles, but more similar to scratch in...

This afternoon I stumbled across a guinea hen laying eggs in a nest across the road from our house. It's a brushy area, near a creek, middle of nowhere. This evening my kids and I walked over to count eggs and check them out (potentially grab some for incubating), but every single one was gone...

I'm curious about your timer... Does it just go for one minute? Or did you find a timer that does 30 second intervals? Wondering how you worked out the auto turners using that motor with 1 rpm... Thank you!

My husband is a wildlife specialist who deals with predators daily and he says most likely dogs. Coyotes have pups this time of year, but they are still in the den, not out hunting alongside mom. Hope your missing chickens come back home.

We used silicon to hold our elbows in place. Maybe buy a bigger elbow if you need to. We caulked all the joints in our coop to make it less appealing to fowl ticks, and no chickens have eaten it to my knowledge.

You could cap each hole at night, or have it in a place that is rodent free. We are thinking/hoping that our coop is pretty rodent proof.

6 week old pullets. We will have to raise it soon, but it has 100 lbs of food in it and it seems to be working great at first glance.

We just took this idea and ran with it for our significantly larger flock. I doubt we will ever fill the barrel up all the way, since feed dust will gather in the bottom, but I'm very excited to have a bulk feeder for $40ish and a free barrel.

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