4-week old chicks & a feeder mod.

Well, after cleaning thier "dog crate coop-brooder" I once again needed to raise the chick feeder a bit higher to keep it clean. Well I used this and seeing as they only have another two weeks before they get kicked into the big coop, I figured this would be a nice way to raise the feeder up. I cut a large coffee can in half and it slipped right under the lip of the chick feeder. I added a few dabs of crazy glue to keep it from falling off too.

The girls are four weeks old now, two BR's and four BO's.



Nice and clean, no sharp edges at all. BTW... the feeder is not that deep, the original bottom is still on it.

 

They are in my shop and the light is only a 25 watt bulb. I do have it off in the day time, but will turn it on for the colder nights. I turned it on just to get the photos.

The waterer was a bit hard to hang up, but I found some plastic bottles at our local Co-Op so I was able to drill a hole and insert a hook with some sealant. However, they still manage to kick up some shavings into the water!
It is higher than it looks, but the chick in the foreground and the one on the roost in the back makes it look much lower. The can walk under it , but have no problems reaching up to get water.

 

Feel free to use any ideas, that's why they are posted!

They have not been up on top of the feeder, but it is a large mason jar, maybe 2 quarts. Plus they have that 2x4 "roost" which might give them something to sit on instead. They did not make all that much of a mess in the feeder, but did create a lot of waste.

 

Wait until they get a little bigger! Mine are kicking a "spray" of shavings on my shop floor about 24" around the door of the dog crate!

Well, the shop is used for a lot of woodworking so its not any worse than when I bury my lathe a foot deep in shavings!