We're moving our Rhode Island Reds out to the coop on Thanksgiving day and we still didn't have a decent feeder for them. So I told DH that he needed to design something during the football games last night!
So he designed a chicken feeder from 3 of these
Eight of these
and one of these
Total cost....$3 for the pan on the bottom.
My job was to make sure that all the paint was out of the buckets and from around the rims....we used cans from water-based paint only, that way I could get it out with soap and water. My hands are chapped and raw from all the scrubbing, but I got it done.
Anyway, here's what we came up with.....
It holds about 3 1/2 gallons of food, and we can always add more paint buckets onto it if we need a bigger one. We may have to design something for the top so they can't perch on it, but I suspect that it will come almost all the way up to the ceiling of the coop, so it might not be a problem. Tell me what y'all think......
So he designed a chicken feeder from 3 of these
Eight of these
and one of these
Total cost....$3 for the pan on the bottom.
My job was to make sure that all the paint was out of the buckets and from around the rims....we used cans from water-based paint only, that way I could get it out with soap and water. My hands are chapped and raw from all the scrubbing, but I got it done.
Anyway, here's what we came up with.....
It holds about 3 1/2 gallons of food, and we can always add more paint buckets onto it if we need a bigger one. We may have to design something for the top so they can't perch on it, but I suspect that it will come almost all the way up to the ceiling of the coop, so it might not be a problem. Tell me what y'all think......
