Large Flock Feeder / Feed

[ChickenCanoe]

What is it with TSC links not going to the products anymore?
Have just in the last few weeks noticed this...screwed up a lot of my links. SMH.
Sorry, rant over.

I just tried it and see it doesn't work.

 

[aart]

Maybe the OP is using the egg shape method of sexing.

 

[Toothpick]

I’ve got a large feeder like this that I have used for chicks and used to use for the hens but they bill it out. More winds up on the ground than they eat.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I’ve got a large feeder like this that I have used for chicks and used to use for the hens but they bill it out. More winds up on the ground than they eat.

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That's the kind I use. Do you have it hanging or sitting on the ground?
If you hang it you can put a feed pan under it to catch what they bill out.

 

[aart]

used to use for the hens but they bill it out. More winds up on the ground than they eat.

Yup.
You could build a few of these,
works for my 15-20 birds,
(scroll waaay down to the water jug version).
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/aarts-waste-free-funnel-bucket-feeder.67218/

 

[Echilde]

I use 4" PVC cut into 4' sections attached to the wall. I have 4 of them and they hold 50lbs of feed total. This lasts about 6-7 days for 48 chickens and 21 chicks. They are free ranged all day though.

 

[Toothpick]

That's the kind I use. Do you have it hanging or sitting on the ground?
If you hang it you can put a feed pan under it to catch what they bill out.

It was sitting on the ground. The chicks are incredibly messy eaters.

Yup.
You could build a few of these,
works for my 15-20 birds,
(scroll waaay down to the water jug version).
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/aarts-waste-free-funnel-bucket-feeder.67218/

That would probably fit my needs just fine. Looks easy to build too. Do you have it outside or inside? Exposed to the weather?

 

[aart]

Do you have it outside or inside?

Inside for sure....not sure how you could make it weather proof.

 

[azygous]

I made these for my hanging feeders back when I was feeding dry feed. They caught every speck of beaked out feed. Quick release fasteners make taking the catcher off and putting it back on a cinch to do in about two seconds to dump the feed back into the top of the feeder. Anyone want to patent and market them with me, I'm up for it.

 

[Kusanar]

I made these for my hanging feeders back when I was feeding dry feed. They caught every speck of beaked out feed. Quick release fasteners make taking the catcher off and putting it back on a cinch to do in about two seconds to dump the feed back into the top of the feeder. Anyone want to patent and market them with me, I'm up for it.View attachment 1911594

That would probably be amazing with a hanging feeder, especially if the catcher was cone or bowl shaped so the feed just runs down into the holding area. With it flat there is potential that they could just turn it into a secondary feeder and scrape feed out of the catch pan onto the ground if left too long between times that you emptied it.

I don't have chickens, I have a pigeon, but if I had chickens, I would set the feeder up so that the chickens had to reach across a small section of hadware cloth to get to the feed, the feed they spill would go through the wire and be contained in a catch tray of some sort to be put back.