What's your favorite most efficient chicken feeder?

[KDK1]

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Mine are eating like crazy too! I only have 8 and lately we've been buying feed every 3 weeks. My dh is going to install a door on the run, so my girls can have supervised free range. Our yard is loaded with bugs and grasshoppers. Hopefully this will help.

I love the new feeder that dh built, KDK1's design is awesome! It's working out great even though we don't the tray lid on. They have not spilled any food out, even with the extra boards I set down for my bantam to stand on to eat. She can't reach the food from the ground yet.

So glad that it's working out. Mine works like a charm!

 

[Klwright1122]

We use the heavier plastic cylinder feeder...white cylinder and the food falls into a red tray... Similar to the galvanized ones shown. We stopped using the galvanized one because they managed to bang it around and those two metal rods at the bottom would get knocked out of the holes and the tray would fall and spill. The plastic cyllinder has a rod down the middle with a spring and wing nut. You adjust the space between cylinder and feed tray to allow food to drop in the pan by screwing down the wing nut at the top of the cylinder/rod. we attached it to a chain and hung them from the rafter of the chicken coop. , no waste.

 

[Nicole01]

Here are a couple pics of my new feeder! I absolutely love how it takes up very little coop space.

We need to add the lid to the inside tray and we are installing a shelf above the inside feeder as an extra roost.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Because I have a mixed flock (chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys) , I had to think of a feeder that would be sturdy enough that none of the animals could tip over and also a feeder where they could not scratch out waste any feed and at the same time, hold enough feed for everyone to eat all day long. This is what was built. They are heavy duty feeders that are made from pallet wood. One feeder is 5 feet long and the other feeder is 4 feet long. It's not pretty and really nothing much to it but it works for me.

 

[Summerford]

I love this feeder. I'm going to start on one this week.

 

[kuntrygirl]

I had another feeder built since the last photos above.

Here it is. This is a life saver for me. It holds about 400 lbs of feed. It has covered top, so it can sit out and the feed never gets wet. With so many animals, I needed something that would hold a lot of feed. I only have to fill it up once a week. All I do is open the top, pour in the feed and close it back. As they eat, the feed continues to trickle down until all gone. There is no waste. The chickens can't get in and scratch the feed out.

 

[Summerford]

Now that is super nice. This way the feed doesn't get wet.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Now that is super nice. This way the feed doesn't get wet.

Thank you.

You're Exactly right!!!! It doesn't ever get wet.

 

[KuroKitsune]

my lf cochin girls have this feeder http://www.orschelnfarmhome.com/plastic-hanging-poultry-feeder-3-lb/ctl16754/cp59752/si5184160/cl1/ right now and when they move into their new coop and run with the new little girls they have the same most likely and maybe two of them since they'll be 10 chickens. i hang the feeder just a bit higher then the back of my smallest cochins back and there rarely any waste and if they do spill some they always eat it what they spill


my serama and duccle have a trough feeder that has short legs and a bar that goes across the top that spins super easy if the try to roost on it so it prevents them roosting there the feeder is quite low but they never sling food out...they just shavings and straw in it occasionally.


my lf chicks have the same feeder as the serama and duccle but smaller and its set up on bricks to try and help keep shavings out.


serama and duccle chicks have a little round feeder thats has 8 small holes for them to get the food and the top pops off when i need to refill and it works well for now