Why does everyone hang the water and food from a rope?

[A.T. Hagan]

I don't use a rope (except for one), I use double loop dog chain.

I have seven tractors and I hang the waterers and feeders in all of them.

Not even the turkeys have managed to spill the water, or the feed. The only time that any water spills is when I have a tractor get hung up in the moving and I give it a hard jerk. Then I'll lose a cup of water or so.

I like hanging them for a number of reasons. The first is that I don't have to remove anything before I can move each tractor. It's easier to adjust the height of each one. It's harder for rodents to get into them. And it keeps them cleaner.

Other than having to make the hangers out of #9 brace wire I don't see any down side.

 

[cogorman]

Can you hang the chickens and put the food and water on the ground? Then they won't kick stuff into it. Ha! So far with my limited experience blocks are the way to go...aside from training them table manners! They just won't listen to me.

 

[Ryu]

Our MGBs are terrible about kicking shavings into the waterers, so we put the waterers on a big cinder block, and put smaller bricks around it so they could easily hop up to it. They are so naughty...

 

[scbatz33]

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[3chimama]

I have my waterer sitting on bricks and my feeder hanging to avoid have wood chips kicked into them.

 

[jacktheknife]

Fellow poultry enthusiasts,

Here's a new one,
I cut a 55 gallon barrel off at about 1/3rd height,
with a chop saw blade in a skill saw.
Smooth the edges with a file.
Turn it over and set the feed bowl on it.
The poultry have room to stand on the barrel, 'all around' the feed bowl,
and it doesn't get knocked over.

They are up out of the mud and the feed is too.
I have 24 Rhode Island Reds
and they all can stand on one of the 2 barrels and eat.
I have cut a rounded hole in the side 1' tall and 1' wide,
for them to get into the barrel,
and a hole in the top {made with a pick}
to hang a light bulb when used as a' brooder barrel'.
It looks good too.


Tschüß


J. Winters von Knife
Sandymay & von Dukedog too