hanaging feeders

[K-Chick]

I'm wanting to hang my feeder from the ceiling, but I'm wondering about the hens hitting it and it swinging and spilling. Do you have a problem with this? Or do you still set it on a block?

 

[Buck Creek Chickens]

With feeders you generally don't have that problem, now with waters that a different story, when they are low on water

 

[Sillystunt]

I love mine! They really don't knock out much. The duck does....lol But then they forge where it fell. I wish i got one sooner!

The waterer we got looks the same but doesn't hang. We had a board and just placed it on it. I usually put a bowl of snacks next to it.

 

[staceyl]

I had that problem with my waterer and I simply added another hook a couple of inches from the first - hanging on the two hooks keeps it more stable. I don't think they can spill out enough food to make much difference so I let that one swing.

 

[MIKE555444]

This hanging feeder works well for me...

I did find that this was a little to close to the water and some were trying to climb up on the blocks... so I put a little space between them and it worked out great

 

[K-Chick]

Thanks everyone, and for the pic. I am going to hand it and see what happens.

 

[Mahlzeit]

I have never had a problem with my hanging feeder either. Even when it gets on the empty side. If they do knock any of it out they eat it up right off the floor. I use layer pellets so its easily spotted on the floor by them. Just make sure you hang the feeder high enough so it's harder for them to make a mess. I have mine even with their shoulders.

 

[mamagardener]

I wasn't sure which to use, a hanging feeder or one of the metal feeders that sit on the ground. I asked a woman at the supply store, figuring she would know. I could not believe my ears when she said "why would you use a hanging feeder, they can't fly?" I think she thought I meant a wild bird feeder! What is wrong with that store? It wasn't even like she was a teenager or something, she even said she had chickens.

 

[Earl Grey Sian]

I have a plastic hanging feeder and the hens are forever spilling their pellets all over the place.
They also seem to manage to spin the whole thing so that the washer and nut (that screw onto the shaft that goes down through the length of the feeder) come undone. Result...pellets everywhere.

I'm thinking of making a tube feeder!

p.s. got my BSc(Hons) result today, 2:1 (second class upper)

 

[2DogsFarm]

I have a homemade plastic hanging feeder that I can't take credit for. It is an aluminum bell-shape (no idea what is might have been from) attached to a straight-sided plastic dish (bottom of a bucket?)
The former owners of my house left it. They kept chickens and turkeys in the converted garden shed I am now using for my flock.

It works great for my 5 girls who are still on grower crumbles.
I have it hung with nylon baling twine from the ceiling of the coop at about breast-level and so far they haven't tipped it. The dish part is about 3" deep.

The only problem is they seem to eat the crumbles and leave about 1" of crumble-dust in the bottom of the feeder.
Every now & then I tip the dust into a bowl for them and they eat it from that.
Why can't they grab the dust from the dish with their beaks?

Owners also left me an old-fashioned waterer with a gallon-sized glass jar and plastic screw-on base. This I set on a base of bricks - a little higher than the feeder.
The jar is in great shape but the plastic is so old it is getting brittle.
I know I won't be able to replace just the bottom as the plastic ones now have a different type connection to the base