Best Feeder There is!

The feeder costs $85.00 for the much improved current version (as of November 2020), not $125.00 per feeder, with shipping costs maybe, but the base cost is $85.00 for the standard feeder, $100.00 for the soft close feeder. We have nothing to do with how far a customer is nor do we control the cost of shipping or our dollar being devalued through inflation. If you don't want to pay high shipping, buy a feeder from Amazon where you will pay even more because the shipping is subsidized and built into the price. Or buy from a local company.

And yes, the soft close feeder door takes some tinkering once you have added the treadle and wire link and we even say that in our sales descriptions, we even recommend using a standard feeder if you are not handy. However people tend not to read the descriptions.

Mice getting in, nope, isn't happening unless the spring is gone or the mice get in when a chicken is eating. The door is spring loaded and yes, you HAVE to keep the spring in place and YES they do wear out. Some last for year like in this negative review above, others last for years, others break in six months or less, it mostly depends on if the customer READS the warning on the instructions to adjust the spring to prevent the door from slamming too hard. You have to keep the spring in place or the feeder door will not close and then the mice can get inside. No different from a car, if you don't keep all the bits in place and gas in the tank, it ain't gonna work.

Springs are a buck each, three in a pack, plus extortionate U.S. mail shipping that is 150% the cost of the springs themselves.

The feeder is cheaply made, on purpose, it started out as a $65.00 feeder for the low end of the market to compete against the then $240.00 made in China grandpa feeder. It went up to $70 around 2019 or so, then up to $85.00 for the American made current version due to the price of materials doubling, now tripling in October of 2021. Once travel reopens to the Philippines I will restart production of the Philippines made feeders which ought to help hold the line on costs IF the shipping container prices drop from their current triple costs since 2018.

But the feeder holds up for years, will not jam closed, and it actually works. We warn people with OCD not to buy our feeder, spend the money on the Chinese made Grandpa feeder which has good fit and finish but be sure and read the negative reviews before you buy!

OCD is a true disorder and has nothing to do with a product.