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[NanaKat]

Quote: You need a bigger circumference surface to protect the tray for the water below from poop. So two suggestions.

1) cut a circle from 3/8 to 1/2 inch plywood that is larger than the outside circumference of the water tray. Cut an opening for the handle and slide a 1 x 3 board thru the handle. That should keep the plywood in place and still allow your girl to sit on top without soiling the water.

2) Cut a cone shape from the corner of a layena feed bag so that the biggest area of the cone is bigger than the water tray. without supporting the weight of the waterer, run a wire thru the corner of the layena cone and up to the ceiling or roost board above the waterer.. Slide the layena cone down on the wire so it covers the top withour hiding the water. This will camouflage the top of the waterer and she will think it will no longer support her. I've done this with hanging feeders and feeders on the ground...even if they try to get on top, they slide off. The layena also protects the water in the tray from soiling.

If you can't beat them...outsmart them....the goal is cleaner water that is still easy to fill.


I have a little Delaware Bantam hen that thinks she is supposed to lay her egg in the 7 lb hanging feeder. How she gets inside the 5 inch opening is beyond me, but a layena cone was put on this evening and should keep her out. I'll go snap a picture.

 

[miohippus]

2) Cut a cone shape from the corner of a layena feed bag so that the biggest area of the cone is bigger than the water tray. without supporting the weight of the waterer, run a wire thru the corner of the layena cone and up to the ceiling or roost board above the waterer.. Slide the layena cone down on the wire so it covers the top withour hiding the water. This will camouflage the top of the waterer and she will think it will no longer support her. I've done this with hanging feeders and feeders on the ground...even if they try to get on top, they slide off. The layena also protects the water in the tray from soiling.

If you can't beat them...outsmart them....the goal is cleaner water that is still easy to fill.

thanks for the advice didn't have a layena feed bag but i did have a dumor; is this right?

 

[NanaKat]

Yes, it is...I was going to add a dog fod bag as a possibility...same thing.

here is what I put on the feeder to keep the hen out.

 

[miohippus]

Yes, it is...I was going to add a dog fod bag as a possibility...same thing.

here is what I put on the feeder to keep the hen out.

ok, thanks... the way you did it there was simpler than the way i did it, lol but i think it has the same result.

 

[NanaKat]

Yes, I just cut the corner out of the bottom of the bag ...makes a taller cone...but yours looks great! And it serves the purpose.
Grandmother always said "Necessity is the Mother of invention."

 

[Poco Pollo]

Oh Nooooo! A cat eating chicken. The dog's not going to be happy about Agatha playing with his toys.
Lots of rain here today. Everything's soggy. The humidity is prompting hundreds of mushrooms to sprout in the yard and the front pasture. The chickens are curious, but they haven't eaten any of the mushrooms.
Here's what they look like after two days:
I'm expecting to see brownies or fairies having lunch under these fungal umbrellas.

 

[NanaKat]

And have you noticed all the puffballs? I've never seen so many. It is a fungal heaven out there.

Love the cat picture!

 

[miohippus]

we have a lot of fungus amogus here too love the pic. and the cat one is cute i like the little pink chicken toy i might have to make my cat a chicken toy.

 

[miohippus]

Yes, I just cut the corner out of the bottom of the bag ...makes a taller cone...but yours looks great! And it serves the purpose.
Grandmother always said "Necessity is the Mother of invention."

thanks! yep it it is that lol

 

[TipihlowLadies]

Happy Friday to every one its been crazy on the farm with excavation work for the wife a new home much deserved after seeing me build dream homes for customers for 28 years its her turn. My buff hen I saved from bobcat didn't make it out of shock. My EE's started laying small blue double yolks is that normal I was surprised. How old are buff orp's when they start to lay. in getting cought up I read a post on the use of oaster shell for egg production I just blend up egg shell some use it some don't is this ok.