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[DLE140]

X2 on the 90 degree pvc fittings in a plastic container of your choice. Zero food waste from this design.

 

[TexasSam]

I.made my feeder for about 10 bucks out of PVC pieces at home depot. It holds almost a weeks worth of food for my two girls and they can t knock the food out.

I have 15 I would have to make several to keep them from fussing over it

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Total investment....$10.....six feeding holes, zero feed waste, can be used indoors or out..... can be made with any size tub or bucket and any number of feeding holes needed

this might work well for me I will have to try it or A modified version good idea

 

[AnnieSantiago]

I bought a treadle feeder. Best investment I've made so far.

 

[blackdog043]

5 gallon no waste feeder 2 elbows for 8 hens.

 

[bullets]

Do you really need the pvc in those buckets?

Wouldn't cutting circle holes in the sides accomplish the same thing?

 

[blackdog043]

Not really, unless you only put a small amount of feed in the container. My 5 gallon feeder will last 2 weeks with 8 hens when it is full.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Do you really need the pvc in those buckets?

Wouldn't cutting circle holes in the sides accomplish the same thing?

The elbows allow for a clear eating hole down into the feed so that the bird is pecking the feed off the bottom of the container (you set them so the bottom of the elbow on the inside is about an inch off the bottom of the container) but you can fill the container well above the opening. Without the elbow there any feed above the opening point would spill out through the elbow. The elbow also makes it so that the birds can't scoop and bill the feed up and out of the opening and onto the ground.

 

[bullets]

Not really, unless you only put a small amount of feed in the container. My 5 gallon feeder will last 2 weeks with 8 hens when it is full.

The elbows allow for a clear eating hole down into the feed so that the bird is pecking the feed off the bottom of the container (you set them so the bottom of the elbow on the inside is about an inch off the bottom of the container) but you can fill the container well above the opening. Without the elbow there any feed above the opening point would spill out through the elbow. The elbow also makes it so that the birds can't scoop and bill the feed up and out of the opening and onto the ground.

Thanks guys! Definitely makes more sense to me now.

 

[chicks are life]

Hang your feeder then they don't tip it over and mice cant get it.

That's what I do works fine.

 

[barred2rock]

I just use a big plastic bowl screwed to a wall with blocks underneath at about 8" high. The girls have to stretch their necks to get the feed preventing spillage. I normally feed fermented feed, but when I do feed dry this works.