Help feeding babies

[bigspringshatchery]

I have 7 royal palm poults. I need help with a feeder. They are knocking about 3 times of what they are eating on the ground. What can I do to stop this. I've tried a trough feeder and they kick it upside down. Then I tried a gravity feeder. A small one like you feed cats with and half of it's on the ground.

 

[Denninmi]

Welcome to bird world. No matter how hard you try, you are always going to have at least some waste due to the fact that birds are such messy eaters.

I think the best you can probably do is some kind of feeder that has a pan underneath to help catch the wasted feed, so you can try to recycle it if its clean and dry enough.

I put a big washbasin type plastic bin I got at the dollar store underneath my hanging feeder, weighted with a big rock. It is about 24" in diameter and about 5" deep, and it does a pretty good job at catching most of what they waste. Even though the birds stand in it, and once in a while get a little poo in it, I find that most of the spilled feed stays clean and I can reuse it.
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[Lagerdogger]

The feeders that have the screens on top that divide the feed trough into a number of smaller segments reduce but do not eliminate spillage.

 

[OmaBird]

On my adult turkeys a baby swimming pool works great. They can't waste anything.