Funny! I'm on a business trip now & finally have time to catch up without my partner breathing down my neck like "Are you on your chicken web AGAIN?!!"
That's exactly why I never got a 'real' feeder. I really didn't want to waste $$ on something else that didn't work.Since I've started this adventure, I've sent dozens of feeders and waterers to the trash. There's no end to the birds' creativity on how to destroy something.
I love this idea, maybe next year. My coop is 8x8 and already feels small. I'd like to do what I can to make it less crowded, hopefully getting the food dishes off the floor will help. If it goes well I'll switch to the elevated waterer too. I liked the idea of the pvc thing b/c I hoped that it would hold quite a bit of feed and I wouldn't be refilling it constantly, but it'd be awesome to just toss a whole bag of feed and let them go at it. I have a round plastic trashcan I store feed in and I've see where people put holes in that and attach a fitting, but I worry about someone getting their head stuck, plus I have 14 birds so I'd need to make sure I had enough holes so everyone can eat.
I hope people who already have the chickens can be grandfathered in. It's horrible if they can't. Can you have more than one coop? IMO if they're going to do that it should be based on the size of your property.Ugh. Just saw an article about a local city making laws about backyard chickens. (There aren't any currently and people are keeping chickens)
Coop must not be more then 4' x 4' x 4'. No more then 4 chickens and no rooster.
This is not a small waterer, but I love it and use it in my brooder. Mine is gravity fed as I don't have running water out there--but it can be connected to a garden hose as well.
My birds are excellent at cleaning out a pasture and turning it into a moonscape. Once they have a section done, I'll move the fence so they have more weeds and grass and plant a pasture mix I want in the desert they leave behind.
My winter housing has two feet of sawdust in the bottom. And they are very good at making human traps. They even dug an escape tunnel that I had to fill from the outside.
This year, I'm going to throw down some shelled corn below the top layer and see if they get better at turning the compost, rather than digging pits.
Put some shelled corn in between the layers, you're girls will gladly stir up the compost and keep the nasty stuff buried.Just got sawdust for our coops and run. Well over $200 with delivery. I'm still shocked DH thinks this is a SAFER, less expensive *hobby* for me!!!
