Chicken Treadle Feeders

[calista]

Well, I love the Learning Center pictures for the wooden treadle feeder:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/LC-feeders.html

I am baffled why SOMEONE out there with carpentry skills hasn't submitted plans to build one of these great little devices out of scrap wood. Have I missed the thread about this since someone from New Zealand asked for plans a year and a half ago???

 

[MotherJean]

Never seen that before. Amazing. I wonder how long it would take a chicken to not be frightened off by that lid popping up? My girls are such scaredy cats. I once put out a dish of French style green beans as a treat. They all backed into a corner as far away from that dish as they could get. They simply refused to go near it until I cut those beans up into smaller pieces. I kept wondering, what the heck kinda chicken predator looks like French style green beans??!

 

[beckt]

LOL. Maybe killer green beans. You would have thought they would see them as big green worms.

 

[calista]

I'm happy to report that I contacted a woodworker's website with pictures of this treadle feeder, and I have a promise that plans will be drawn up and posted FREE on their website within a couple of weeks.

Out of scrap materials, too! Woo-hoo!

 

[PriceFamilyFarms]

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My girls hang out along the back part of the property that connects with the woods looking for baby blacksnakes, but if I break up some bread and throw it into the coop they all back into the corner - crazy brids!! lol

 

[MotherJean]

Aren't they just a stitch? I don't think a day goes by that they don't give me a good laugh or an "awww" moment.

 

[NurseNettie]

Maybe they look like poisonous caterpillars?? I dunno....

I have cockatoos ( not chickens, of course) but ANYTHING strange ... their crests go up, they take off and look like something is gonna kill them

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[TXbeginner]

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Sounds like my wife. I like green beans my self, she wont go near them. *shrugs*

 

[Dogfish]

Got your double hinge reverse engineered tonight. Took 10 minutes.

0.25" plywood will be the material it is built out of.

 

[WoodlandWoman]

Nice job Dogfish!