Questions on Treadle Feeders

Really it just came already there?
Yes, it really is very well designed. The trough part is also all curved, there aren't any "bits" for the kibble to get stuck in.

EDIT: This lady got the same one, and shows her girls using it from about 2 minutes in
I didn't weigh the plate down, I just let them get used to the noise from the get-go. It didn't take long. The whole thing probably took me about 5 minutes of effort. They just overcame their reluctance because that's where their food was.... Food motivation was greater than the "what's that noise?" fear.
 
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I bought one, it's Dutch (I've just woken up, can't think of the name, but I have posted before about it) and it was quite (very) expensive, but it was worth every penny. I'd like another for my little girls (bantams) but I'm saving up, because I'd really like 2 in their run instead of just one.

What's so great about it? I open that thing up when I'm cleaning up and there's food in there. Lots of food. I don't know where it was all going before (all kicked into the dirt, I expect, or eaten by other critters who now can't get to it) but the amount of feed the big girls get through has been substantially reduced (I never really paid enough attention to say for sure, but I suspect that I've probably recouped the cost of it in having had to buy fewer bags of crumble)

It was easy to show them what to do. My big girls are quite greedy, the motivation to use it was quite high. :D

EDIT: mine is big, it holds like 20kg or something, so I don't have to refill it often.
FURTHER EDIT: https://www.olba.com/en/feedomatic-automatic-feeder-20kg
Here it is. I have this thing out in the run, the crumble stays dry inside, the rain doesn't get in. It doesn't clog up or anything. All I do is open the lid and add crumble when needed.
I wonder if this is the same one as I found on Amazon.com. They look the same, but it doesn't say it is an Olba brand. https://www.amazon.com/Automatic-Tr...-2-spons&keywords=chicken+treadle+feeder&th=1
 
Hi, I have nine birds, and they are pretty rowdy when they get out in the morning, looking for food. Plus a couple of them seem to eat most of the day. I’m wondering how it would work if only one or two birds can get to the food at once?
 
Hi, I have nine birds, and they are pretty rowdy when they get out in the morning, looking for food. Plus a couple of them seem to eat most of the day. I’m wondering how it would work if only one or two birds can get to the food at once?
On mine, they'd just have to wait their turn or perhaps shove someone else out of the way. It's not really different to when they had bucket feeders in there, I didn't have a "hole" in a bucket for each lady so everyone could eat breakfast at the same time. They had to wait a turn, or shove somebody else if they were higher up the pecking order.

Everyone looks healthy, there's nobody who looks starving. When I first got my 2 little leghorn crosses, they were scared and hid from the older girls. Those 2 figured out they could use the treadle (I was feeding them separately) if they both jumped up, and they used it when the other girls were off doing something else.

Otherwise, I think it's the pecking order that decides who gets to have their turn first. If it's too many chooks and too much fighting you'd need a second feeder
 

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