Feeder Build

[Rocketchik]

JT,
Thanks for posting your design! I looked at several and ended up building one similar to yours. I had to experiment with the gap size, but so far the resulting feeder is working great. I built a smaller unit for winter days when the girls might want to hang out in the coup. Here's a photo of the larger unit with my girls.

 

[jthornton]

JT,
Thanks for posting your design! I looked at several and ended up building one similar to yours. I had to experiment with the gap size, but so far the resulting feeder is working great. I built a smaller unit for winter days when the girls might want to hang out in the coup. Here's a photo of the larger unit with my girls.

Looking good there. I've had to experiment a bit with mine to get a balance for the feed type I was using.

JT

 

[aart]

@jthornton did you ever find a happy medium for this feeder?

 

[jthornton]

@aart yes I've not touched it in a long time since I switched back to crumble they quit raking it out looking for crumble.

JT

 

[aart]

@aart yes I've not touched it in a long time since I switched back to crumble they quit raking it out looking for crumble.

JT

K,thanks...will have to scroll back and look for the latest plans.

 

[aart]

@aart yes I've not touched it in a long time since I switched back to crumble they quit raking it out looking for crumble.JT

So you're still at 5" wide and 3.5 deep for trough..and it works good with crumble??

Well increasing the depth to 5" didn't help at all. You can see the photo on the right was the level of the feed and after a day the left bin was full and over flowing on the floor and middle two nearly full while the right most bin was hardly touched... dunno for now I'll just have to portion it out daily I guess.View attachment 1426916JT

The front board is 4" tall so the depth is 3 1/4".JT

 

[jthornton]

So you're still at 5" wide and 3.5 deep for trough..and it works good with crumble??

I'll have to measure when I get back from Beaver Lake Arkansas...

JT

 

[Ghosty]

I'll have to measure when I get back from Beaver Lake Arkansas...

JT

Have fun at the lake JT! I like your feeder! I switched to a Nutrena All Flock 20% with smaller sized pellets instead of crumble, and they seem to like it. I feed in pans, the dust in bottom gets wasted, but they don't fling it.

 

[jthornton]

So you're still at 5" wide and 3.5 deep for trough..and it works good with crumble??

I have a 3/4" high gap under the Lexan window and the front and sides are 3" deep and there is 4" front to back on the inside. The depth could be shorter as there is never more than one layer deep of crumble.

JT

 

[aart]

I have a 3/4" high gap under the Lexan window and the front and sides are 3" deep and there is 4" front to back on the inside. The depth could be shorter as there is never more than one layer deep of crumble.

JT

Wow one one layer of crumble with a 3/4 gap under edge of lexan?!
Sounds like it's working great.