Built in Feeders

[Rich Marshall]

I am designing our new coop and in the past viewed on here someone who had built a feeder into the interior wall of the coop which was fillable from the outside.
If anyone has any input to this or similar designs please share them.
Thanks.

 

[kichohana]

if you do a search for "PVC Feeders" you'll find tons of ideas for 4" pipe feeders that you can adapt to fill from the outside.

here's one link to a member's blog that breaks it down pretty easily...

http://missingmorning.blogspot.com/2010/02/coop-improvements.html

good luck!

 

[KDK1]

Here's mine, built from scrap lumber I had lying around the garage. It holds about 65# of pellets with zero waste. I have since, painted it and modified the mounting system (no gap between the coop and hopper).

 

[jeeping31]

KDK1 thats cool I wonder if there was any problems with your hand made feeder?

 

[KDK1]

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None so far... It's all caulked on the inside and the only problem I could see is if you didn't use a Quality weather stripping on the lid.