A cheap and easy chicken feeder design

[Chickenfortress]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/10123_chickenfortress_feeder3.gif

I hope I did that right. I'm new to posting images. I had some scrap 1x12 sitting around, and needed another feeder. This is the design I came up with to best utilize the materials I had. The birds seem to like it, so I thought I'd pass it on.

The link is a much cleaner pic, they resized the image on the post, and it lost a lot of readability.

 

[mylilchix]

Wow, that's awesome!! I've been wanting to put something like that into my coop. Thanks for doing the hard work for me

Sonja

 

[Shared Acres]

Do you have a pic of what it looks like?

 

[beerguzzler]

Really good idea and super cheap if you have scrap laying around like I do. We sometimes head out of town for 5+ days and my PVC feeder will usually hold about 5 days worth so I require a friend to top it off. I'm gonna build this one in the coming weeks. I'll let you know how it turns out.

 

[chicks for better health]

I made a couple very similar, they work like a charm. I wish I had made them slightly larger, they fit 45# of feed. 50# would have been perfect

 

[Chickenfortress]

Chicks for better health, you could always add a hopper to the top. You could make the thing hold 100# for that matter. As for the pictures, I'll have to wait for it to empty and clean it a bit. Or, better yet, just make a new one for the pic.

 

[gma_lisa]

PERFECT

Thanks for the great instructions!!

 

[allisojo]

That's really nice of you to post this. Thanks.