Homemade chicken feeder and waterer pics please!

[Featherwisp]

Have you made your own chicken waterer/feeder? I would love to see some pictures. I trying to get ideas on how to build some from the stuff I have around the house/garage.

 

[chirpchirp]

i know there are afew floating around here, but i would love to see more too - i get my chicks in a couple weeks and want to make a few also. i always love to see what people can come up with

 

[Glenda L Heywood]

I made my own feeders by using
1"X4" 3 ft long
three sides and in the top I nailed 10 penny nails to a 1"x1"piece of pine and it turned as the nails allowed it to
never had any problems
I always bought the plastic gallon waterers that I got from Smiths Poultry supplys
they have the gallon size that is hard plastic and sets on a heated water base unit
used mostly 25 watt bulbs in the heater for winter

 

[Judy]

I'd make the waterer from a 5 gallon bucket and a planter base if it weren't so heavy to turn over. No problem if you are young and strong!

 

[Monk]

I just read this on another thread, good pics and ideas on Homemade PVC feeders.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=109158

 

[Kesha]

we made ours with pvc pipe the only thing i would suggest is at the bottom use a y coupler insted of the t coupler

 

[booger]

Here's one hubby just made out of scrap metal. You could use wood just as easily.

 

[sesa]

I made the waterer from this site, works really well

http://toolmakingart.com/2008/06/10/chicken-feeders/

 

[Featherwisp]

Today I managed to rummage around my house and find some good materials for chick feeders and waterer!!

~Materials I used for feeder:
-1 quart (16 ounces, or 2lbs) plastic yogurt jar
- 1 small plant tray
-1 nut and bolt
~Tools used to make feeder:
- Anything sharp (used a nail)
- Kitchen scissors
-Cordless drill

Inside view

Bottom view

~Materials for waterer:
- 1 quart plastic yogurt jar
- 1 plastic TV dinner bowl
- Hot glue
~Tools used to make waterer:
- Kitchen scissors
- Hot glue gun

I made the feeder by cutting out four holes on separate sides of the jar.
I drilled a hole through the jars bottom and the plant tray, then screwed the nut and bolt in. Already tested this, it works great!

As for the waterer, I only cut out one tiny hole on one side and super glued the yogurt jar to the TV dinner bowl. (which I trimmed back a bit because it was too deep of a bowl.) This works well, too. On the inside of the waterer, I marked were the water level should be so it wont over flow.

Im so happy with how these turned out!

 

[codybird]

Have you searched here for "Homemade feeder " "Homemade waterer"?

You will have enough pictures and explanations for 5 hours of good reading.