has anyone made there own feeders and waters here

[TouchO'Lass]

I needed a second feeder for my 4 wk olds but the feed and seed store is a little ways away. Looked around in the cabinets and came up with this:

I cut the bottom off a bleach bottle to make about a 1" deep tray. A small planter dish would also work. I taped an empty cottage cheese container to the middle of the tray after cutting a few small holes in the bottom sides with a sharp knife. Just pop the top off the container, fill it and let gravity do the rest. Just a smaller version of the 5 gallon bucket thing!

Sorry I don't have a picture...

 

[hunter109]

i would have to do something like that

 

[Irish Cluck]

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Here are my designs:

Left is the auto feeder (lots of these with pics on BYC).
Right is the waterer although I should add that I am considering getting some poultry watering cups and building the waterer with those instead of the ball valves and cutouts.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/85488_water_and_feeder.jpg

OOO OOO Do you have pics of the waterer? Just to give me an idea what it looks like finished. Does it work by vaccum?

I actually haven't built the waterer yet, but yes, that design would work by vaccum.

1.) Fill the bucket (or operate off of a rain barrel that is raised above the system).
2.) Close lower ball valve
3.) Open uper ball valve, filling the length of 4" pvc piping with the water from the bucket.
4.) When filled, close upper valve
5.) Open lower ball valve


As I said, I am considering ditching this design and building one using Poultry Watering Cups.

 

[hunter109]

well i am going to try and make a water and then think of a feeder that i can make

 

[Moabite]

I built a J-tube feeder similar to the ones pictured earlier and I like it better than the galvanized metal one I bought at the feed store. A lot less waist and you can fill it from outside the run. I've been using the 3 gallon galvanized waterer also and it works fine, except I surly wouldn't want to drink out of it. I will building a nipple waterer that the reservoir will be refilled by landscape irrigation once daily. At least that is my current plan.

 

[mamabahre]

I do the 5 gallon bucket for feeding..holes in the bottom and it spills into a tray I made myself, very basic and for our 5 hens I only have to fill once a week or even longer. I set it up on bricks so they don't scratch feed out and waste it.

 

[hunter109]

thats cool i have alot of 5 gallon buckets so i was going to build one just as the get bigger

 

[schellie69]

I made a simple feeder used an old cat litter bucket. (washed with bleach and rinsed well) and an old cat litter pan with a higher lip. I put holes in the cat litter bucket placed in cat litter pan and fill. Good to go the higher lip helps so they can't scratch out the feed. I feel about once a week for 14 chickens.

 

[hunter109]

i am hopping to get about 20 to 25 pound of feed to get in the feeder that i make well latter