feeder outside-do you have a little shelter for yours?

[A.T. Hagan]

This isn't the best photo, but it's the only one that I have at the moment that shows the feeder shelter I use in the hen yard.

One sheet of old roofing tin which makes it about two feet wide. Just tall enough to give me some room inside to adjust the hanging height of the feeder. The frame is treated wood in a triangular shape. The weight of the hanging feeder inside helps to keep it stable.

Most of our rain comes out of the southwest so I have it oriented to give the most protection from that direction. It has to be blowing pretty good to get the feed wet so most ordinary rainstorms don't bother it at all.

The blocks you see along side it also help to keep it stable and gives the shorter hens something to step up onto to more easily reach the feed. The taller hens and the roosters can reach it standing flat footed. The blocks aren't really necessary, but I had a hog get in a couple of years ago and break the frame when he crawled inside of it so I use them to hold it still now.

The white stuff on the ground was an experiment in using shredded paper for yard bedding.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

I took one of my chick-n-hutches that was no longer holding itself together and sawed off the legs, removed the front grill, and placed it on the ground. It has feed under it now.

Also, I have a little shelter that I built (actually I have two now) with clear roofing and lumber (this is an old pic and I draped a canvas tarp over it for temporary storage in the picture):

Also this has been used as a feed shelter (the A-frame):