PVC - Not a Monster

[KettermanHillCoop]

Omgosh...I'm trying to look at design ideas for PVC feeders and I keep seeing stuff about toxicity...food grade buckets...etc...

Polyvinyl choloride (PVC) is used everywhere... Yes...you all are in contact with it. In more ways than you probably even realize. Softened PVC is used to make the toys your kids chomp on, IV bags, caths, blood tubes...even heart bypass parts! Hard PVC is used for irrigation...plumbing...garden hoses...

So EVERYONE is exposed to PVC...and you're all fine...

Yes PVC contains chlorine and other carcinogen, but unless you are in the business of manufacturing it, burning it or live in a landfill (where the dioxins are released) or you inhale dust from cut PVC...you're fine. Really...you are.

**Now back to perusing those great ideas**

 

[cavemanrich]

So now back to original plans..... Since you have limited room in your coop, go with slim line design.

 

[KettermanHillCoop]

So now back to original plans..... Since you have limited room in your coop, go with slim line design.

Question...do you stuff anything in the very bottom of the pipe (below the 45)? Does the feed that ends up at the bottom just rot there?

 

[Just Hatch duck]

hi can someone go to my new thread i really need help...

 

[KettermanHillCoop]

hi can someone go to my new thread i really need help...

Duck egg question? I'm sorry...I don't know anything about ducks. But there are many here that do!

 

[nminusyplusm]

Question...do you stuff anything in the very bottom of the pipe (below the 45)? Does the feed that ends up at the bottom just rot there?

I put a quart canning jar lid insert between the short piece of pvc pipe and the bottom of the wye. Chickens can peck to the false bottom that way so no old feed is in there.

 

[sourland]

I've heard that PVC causes impotence.

 

[cavemanrich]

Question...do you stuff anything in the very bottom of the pipe (below the 45)? Does the feed that ends up at the bottom just rot there?

Good question...
That is not me in that pix... Google pix.
Yes, I personally would block off the bottom so feed does not stay there for long time uneaten. It would not rot, unless exposed to moisture. There is of course moisture in the air, so yes. BEST TO HAVE IT BLOCKED OFF..
Could be done with whatever stuffing, with a nice neat cardboard circle stuffed on appropriate level that would keep feed from falling thru.

 

[KettermanHillCoop]

I've heard that PVC causes impotence.

If you breath in the toxins during production, burning, decomposition in a landfill...or the dust from cutting.

My kids' father...and grandfather...and great-grandfather are plumbers. So...not sure about that impotence thing.

 

[KettermanHillCoop]

I put a quart canning jar lid insert between the short piece of pvc pipe and the bottom of the wye. Chickens can peck to the false bottom that way so no old feed is in there.

Does that bottom piece have a bottom? Or just open to the ground? If it's capped...perhaps filling it with that quick dry concrete stuff to plug it up?