Ok but the OP was talking about ducks and I was mainly replying to his/her original post I guess I did mention what you said about making a big mess thoughOh no, I didn't mean mine is for ducks. I should have posted that better. I meant i had the flock party style feeder for chickens and was sharing my lid idea, mostly because it took like 2 minutes to make haha. I already abandoned that feeder honestly because the chickens made such a mess. I finally just drank through a 5 gallon water jug to make aart's no waste feeder (i don't know how to link things from the site). First day went well with it! Could ducks use that style feeder?
My chickens used to live with my ducks and they got used to eating out of duck feeders and drinking from buckets lol in fact, they still prefer buckets bowls and puddles, even though they have been separated out from the ducks