Awesome, after making way, way, over 10,000 of these feeders and getting feed back both good and bad we have learned the best way to get a chicken to use the feeder. Sometimes I come off dismissive I am sure by telling people to follow the directions, well in their mind they are following the...
Jenny, we really need to see pictures of the feeder to see how you have it installed and what kind of feeder it is. The guillotine style do require a prop open style of training because you have to acclimate the birds to that overhead door coming up and down. Using one foot is the way most...
Oh, I am so glad I had the time to check in at BYC today. Email me please so I can help immediately. I might go weeks before I have the time to check on old threads.
Every time that someone has emailed after having problems with getting the birds to use the feeder it has turned out that they...
If you prop open a treadle feeder to "train" birds all you are doing is training them that the door isn't supposed to move.
I've sold thousands of these feeders in the last few years and here is what we tell folks to do.
Remove ALL other feed sources before the birds go to roost, fasten the...