homemade feeders by RendonRoo

[cjexotic]

Is it the crumbles giving you problems? as that is what I feed my chickens and the pheasants get pellets.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

seems like both get hung up in the bend.

 

[socks]

Hi, I am very interested in these as we need a new feeder now that the chicks have become chickens and the cold weather is causing them to eat everything in their feeder in one day.

I live in a climate where it is constantly wet and rainy in the winter but believe we can protect it from wind blown rain...I am wondering though about people saying it gets stuck some time as we also want this so we can go away a few days (their run is secure). Is this a usual problem or if we do it with a 3" or 4" pipe would it be better than the thinner ones??? I only have 4 chickens right now and a most will have about 6 in the future. Any comments will help as we still hope for a little camping before the winter sets in.
thanks

 

[jrossetti]

This is an awesome design and fits perfectly in the KISS philosophy.

I just built one for my tractor. I had to use ABS because I wanted to use street elbows, and I can't find PVC street elbows in 2" or bigger. I also was limited to a 2' section of the main pipe because I couldn't find anything longer and felt that a $5 3" coupling was just too expensive. I'm gonna paint it with that spraypaint for plastics that makes it look like hammered steel.

 

[RendonRoo]

The only time mine has ever clogged up was when it got wet. I use crumbles and sometimes they have to reach in to get the feed to fall but they figured it out. You could also have a small chain down the length of the pipe and just give it a tug if it does jamb. Good Luck and I'm glad others are getting good use of these feeders.

 

[socks]

a chain what an excellent idea! and here's to hoping I don't need to yank it.

 

[tylerhorseman]

how would this work with a flock of 26 with 2 different ages so basically 2 seperate groups run together....would u suggest several???

 

[Rebel Rooster]

Very simular to what I'm building now! After seeing these designs, I'm gonna change a few things! You guys are creative... and pretty durn practical... Love it! I've got to keep over 150 chickens fed and happy! This will make life a little easier by far...

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

I used 4" pipe. The geting backed up in the bend isn't really a big problem.
It is a great design and still MUCH easier and less maintainence than any other feeder.
even if I didn't stick the broom handle down there - they could reach in and get the feed if they needed to. I have thought of the chain as well maybe like a loop? I have the top filling part on the outside of my coop and the feeder bottom on the inside . . . so if the chain were in a loop I could just pull it from the top without going in the run.
BTW I decided to move mine to the inside of the coop to avoid the wet feed issue.

 

[RendonRoo]

I have 2 3" feeders and 2 2" feeders and i can fill all four of them 3 times with 50 lbs of feed. This may give you an idea of how many you need. I feed 20 full grown birds and have to fill the feeders about every four or five days.