Best feeder for fermented grains?

[FlockVillemaire]

I love this. How easy is it to take the PVC pipe off to clean? I feed fermented feed, and I take my feeder into the kitchen to clean once per day.

I wouldn't think it would need cleaning that often for properly FERMENTED feed! The bacteria/yeasts in fully fermented food prevents the nasty/dangerous stuff from growing, so a good hosing off outside 1 or 2 times a week might be good. And a long/narrow tube like DobieLover's would prevent their standing/scratching in it with poopy feet that they so much love to do!

 

[DobieLover]

I love this. How easy is it to take the PVC pipe off to clean? I feed fermented feed, and I take my feeder into the kitchen to clean once per day.

I only just now saw this reply! How embarrassing!

My hanging troughs now only hold the dry crumble and I just unhook them take them outside, flip them over to get rid of any powder, hose them out, run my scrub brush through them and give them a rinse and rehang them. I only clean them about twice a year. They don't need it anymore than that.

I've since built a new coop with a new run and a new food management system. I built a second 6 ft trough that hangs next to the 4 foot trough. All of the fermented feed goes into a large heated dog bowl. It was freezing during the winter preventing the birds from being able to eat it. In the heated dog bowl that doesn't happen. But I just keep using that heated dog bowl throughout the entire year and unplug it when it's not necessary to keep it heated. In addition to that, I will put piles of fermented feed on the stump arrangements in the run as well as on flat stones I scattered along the back of the run. This way the birds are spread out all throughout the run and have many places to get something to eat. It works very well especially during chick and juvenile season.