Can I..........

[rooster brandon.]

CAN I BUILD MY OWN CHICKEN FEEDER OUT OF WOOD AND NAILS IF I MAKE IT GOOD.........PLEASE HELP IM CONFUSED SOME WEB SITE SAID I CANT USE NAILS..............................................

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

HOGWASH!! Nail away! Galvanizing or nail glue isn't good for them, but they're not going to be licking the nails, they'll be sunk into the wood. Build away!

 

[Break an Egg]

http://www.woodworkingcorner.com/feeder.php

I saw this today and added it to my favorites. If you are handy than I say go for it!!

You also may want to check this out.... it's a few home made feeders and waterers. There are a bunch of good ones in there.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=355643&p=1







P.S. good luck and

 

[rooster brandon.]

thank you god bless...........

 

[nivtup]

We have several wooden feeders.

They seem to work best in my opinion. But then again I am partial.

 

[UrbanChick101]

Our feed, I have figured out!! Everything else is lacking!! My husband built our feeder (wooden - instead of nails, he used screws, easier on the fingers) and it works really well, it has a slanted back/inside board, so the feed always slides down. I don't know how much it holds, I have not filled it yet, I just bring an icecream pail of feed to it every couple days. It would probably hold a good two ta three worths of feed for certain, if I filled it full. I believe there are pictures of it on my website. I found it on here, from another BYC person, showed my husband and he had one made out of scrap plywood in no time!!! It works great!! (as far as waterers go... welll still trying to find something that works for my setup)

 

[Ariel301]

I use handmade wooden troughs to feed my birds, and yes, they have nails. I get free wooden pallets from the hardware store and pull the slats off, remove the old bent nails. Put two slats together to make a V shape, then put squares on the ends of your V to act as ends and legs, and you have a quick and free (except for a few nails) feeder.

 

[HBuehler]

Use screws not nails! If for any reason it needs to come apart say for a good cleaning if you nail it it will damage..screws come right out and go right back in. We are builders so wood is our business..love the stuff

but wood can trap bacteria and disease and that can be real bad with chickens so we don't have a wooden feeder around our birds...the risk is higher than I want to take. We wash and disinfect every water and feeder we have every week wood doesn't like that.

 

[crj]

I have built a couple of trough feeders with scrap 1x4 pine and plywood with sheetrock screws
Didn't even use a tape measure.
We had wood feeders LONG before all the new fancy plastic and such.
Sometimes we can take the cleanliness thing a little too far.