what does your oyster shell and grit feeder look like?

[OutInTheStiks]

One of these 50 cent bowls from Ikea. We bought a stack the last time we were there.


http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00134231

 

[AmyBella]

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Great idea!!! I'll be digging my chick feeders out as soon as I get home!

 

[HEChicken]

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Me too! Cheap, easy, they can't turn it over.

 

[sotelomary]

Like Mimichick, I also use the plastic cage cups. I have only 5 chickens and they work great! I like the fact that I can take them down and walk down to where my oyster shell and grit is stored to refill them.

Mary

 

[Akane]

In the little coop the guy that built it put in a wooden trough/gravity feeder. Kind of like the little metal ones sold for rabbit pellets but much much bigger so it covers one wall of the 8x8 coop. It has a slanting lid on hinges and is divided in 3 sections. A long one for the poultry feed and a small one on either end that had grit and oyster shell already in it when he moved the coop to our place. The big coop I just set a 2x2' rabbit cage pan on top of the bedding and toss treats, grit, and oyster shell on it. When it gets too many shavings in it I dump it just outside the door for them to pick through outside and start tossing more on it again. When I had only the bantams in the big coop and a small poultry feeder I also set that on the pan to limit the shavings that got in to it. The young bantams couldn't get at it well if it was raised up any and you can't hang things in that coop without a lot of effort. Now with the small ones in the little coop and only standards out there I've traded it out for a larger raised poultry feeder and use the whole 4 sq ft pan for the treats, grit, and oyster shell.

 

[CheerfulHeart2]

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I do this sometimes too.

 

[mdbokc]

They can get too much calcium. Just making it available to them separately works. They will eat it as they need it .

I just set a small bowl each of grit and oyster shell along the coop wall.

 

[dappertophatter]

I use a small galvanized rabbit feeder (I think from Murray McMurray).
The flock was pretty ticked off that they couldn't scratch most of the grit out and then sit and lay in the half-full container.

 

[2DogsFarm]

I only have 5 pullets so I use the round aluminum chickfeeder that is supposed to screw on to a tube. I fill it from the center and they peck the grit or oyster shell from the feeding ports.
It sits on a brick and doesn't tip as long as it's at least half full.

 

[mrandmrschicken]

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This is something I'd been thinking about. Using the small 5" rabbit feeders to keep it neater in the coop and pens. They have such a nasty habit of flinging stuff everywhere! How do you break them from wasting food? I thought the rabbit feeders might work.