I am seeing a bit of spillage with this one that I don't see in the other picture. I may set a tray under it tomorrow to catch any spillage. I absolutely LOVE these feeders though.
I too love those types of feeders, but I have a big flock, so use a large trashcan with 6 ports. It holds I think 2.5 bags of feed, and with its sloped sides the feed stays dry.
Anyway, when I first set it up, a little bit of dust was pulled out of 2 ports...I added pipe collars to those ports, and that fixed it.
Speaking of egg colors...egg collection tonight included the following (same eggs taken from different angles because of lighting): brown egg from German line New Hampshire hen, white egg from Icelandic hen, blue egg from a blue, muffed pullet hatched from a blue egg, olive egger from EHAL. Olive egger pullet is pictured at the bottom (pic from July)...her name is Zira, from the original Planet of the Apes movie. View attachment 1164652View attachment 1164653 View attachment 1164663
Oh come on guys considering the general overall health and quality now-a-days of the news are you really surprised? @penny1960, I was able to get two pictures for you.
The first is just made with the standard 90 degree bend pvc elbow set one inch above the bottom of the bucket. This feeder is outside as I have a big group of cockerels and pullets that spend most of the day out in the run. Every now and then a rooster will escort a pullet in to the nests but these birds just love to be outside no matter what the weather is.
I had a hutch that I took the front off of to accommodate the bucket being set inside and kept dry. There is a solid pallet sitting against the hutch for the smaller birds to stand on to reach the feed.
This one I made to day just out of whatever I can find. I only had a 45 degree elbow but after cutting the hole and setting it discovered that it would work just fine. We buy cat litter in buckets every now and then. Those things are worth their weight. I carry food to the coop with them, water, you name it. This one became an impromptu feeder today that I traded for the pvc pipe feeder which needs to be re-engineered to handle fine ground feed.
I am seeing a bit of spillage with this one that I don't see in the other picture. I may set a tray under it tomorrow to catch any spillage. I absolutely LOVE these feeders though.
Then just for fun and because they are so darned cute, these are my two princesses. I told my husband that they remind me of the tow little Oriental ladies in the old Godzilla/Mothra movies that would sing to Mothra in order to make the giant moth hatch. These two little girls are the two bantams I got from Orscheln's this spring to keep a lone chick company. The chick didn't make it but these two are hale and hearty. Their names are Faith and Hope. The lady on the left glaring at them is Little Dove who as you can tell, enjoying a hard molt and very grumpy at the moment. She is a beautiful little white OEGB hen but she is a chick killer so she is destined to never set eggs and see them hatch.
Faith is on the left and Hope on the right. Folks on the OEGB thread thought they are Silver Duckwing girls but their breasts are really getting red and their back feathers have almost a greenish cast to them so Idunno. Time will tell. I want to get a Silver Duckwing rooster this spring when I get my Fayoumis and see what they hatch for me.
You can see what I mean about the ceiling needing painted. The fly yuck is bad enough, but to make it worse, every time one of the roosters gets beat up they smear their bloody combs on the ceiling.
I just don't feel comfortable going into Home Depot and asking for paint that will cover blood stains.
Collar, yep. Will do. Ran out of pvc. Trip to hardware store warranted. I just looked at some pics. Looks as though my princesses are BBRs which is what my bantam crosses are.
Cap, those Guineas are going to love that hoop coop.
think I may change to that have the ones out of 3 inch PVC upright long neck not super happy I have to pull the food down no matter what I do if i take the half front off they empty it in a hour
Well i was going to work on pallets tonight but hubby wanted the burn piles done so i did that. The air has 70% humidity so nothing wanted to burn. Even the paper! So i collected 2 bins of tinder and that did it. He has decided i am right, we need to store a lot of dry sticks to start the wood stove with. We need newspapers too, no paper delivery here.
But i am really happy to get so far on my coop today. I did manage to get all the guineas into the run tonight. Once i get the hoop coop pen done i am putting them in there for a month. No need to chase them around. Once it freezes most of the bugs will be dead any way .
Yep, kindling is worth it's weight in gold if you heat with wood. This year we had a small bridal wreath bush die so I cut it off at the ground, used pruning shears to cut the branches into 6 inch lengths then tied them into 2 inch bundles. Those things light up and burn like wildfire. I also collect all the scrap and bark from splitting and save it in feedbags.
