DIY Thread - Let's see your "Inventions".

[Westtexasdustdevil]

Great post........How did you make them?

 

[Hillschicks]

thats the feeder i made one rainy day... I looked out back and seen a piece of plywood and some 2x4's and thought i should pick them up... On my way out i grabbed my saw and just did it... No tape measure, no pencil... Just a man and a saw... I cut the plywood to a good looking width... Then i cut that in half just off center to make the back piece longer than the front piece... I cut 2 pieces of 2x4 to roughly the same length as the back piece of plywood and screwed em all together... Used some scrap pieces of plywood to make the tray and an angled piece inside to keep the food going toward the tray... Its not as flashy as some, but it holds 15 gallons of food and is 36" long so we dont get any overcrowding with our small flock... We feed a mix of random grains and such and threw in sunflowers making them scrape food out to get to the sunflowers... A bit of chicken wire over the tray seems to have put a stop to that... Total cost $0 ... Stuff i had laying around

 

[mphsgal]

Just "bumping" the thread so I'll get it in my digest. What great creativity here!

 

[chickengarden]

Do the nipples leak at that angle? I find mine do. I have always put them on the bottom of the buckets.

I redid the waterer with a new bucket and put the nipples on the bottom. I did find that the other one was leaking. Thanks again for the "head up"!

 

[lesgo54]

great idea. thanks for sharing

 

[3forfree]

here's a feeder I made for my chicks as they were growing up. Coffee can for the top and the bottom is from the inside of a plant vase. screwed together from the bottom with drywall screws.

 

[DMRippy]

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[jdeoliveira74]

here is the chicken waterer i made. the first attempt was a gravity feed system which was hard to clean and always needed to be filled. This one fills itself

 

[mybabies]

This is our first year raising chicken. My husband and kids built there very first chicken coop from the ground up. FYI *My husband is a steel worker. Not a contractor* The first coop was for the babies and the second one is for our older chickens.

 

[colburg]

here is the chicken waterer i made. the first attempt was a gravity feed system which was hard to clean and always needed to be filled. This one fills itself

How many chickens do you water with this?