![]() ![]() The advantages of this chicken feeder design are: This design is amazingly simple and a picture tells a thousand words but essentially it's any container (like a bin or bucket) with holes in the side for the chickens to poke their heads in to get to the feed. I was surprised at just how far a hen could reach down the bucket and that's when I started thinking about designing a simple bucket or container feeder. One afternoon whilst in my poultry pen I was testing some fermented feed on my hens – I had the feed in a medium-sized bucket and would scoop a little out to throw it to the flock. Naturally, as curious hens can be one came over to the bucket and proceeded to stretch her neck over the large opening and down to reach the feed. In the end, I got fed up with expensive treadle chicken feeders or those PVC pipe gravity feeders and decided to design my own. Lost feed to wild birds or rodents is robbing your poultry of their food and you of good money, not only that, feed spilt all over the ground is messy, annoying, and quite frankly NOT supposed to happen. I don't want to dwell too much on the flaws in feeders except to say if you own chickens and have used standard chicken feeders or even most of the designer brand ones you'd know what I mean. That is, the feeder dispenses feed automatically as the birds eat and this would be fine if the chickens were actually eating the grain or pellets but if a hen learns to rake through the feed without eating it causes more grain to dispense into the feed chamber and then it pours all over the ground. Sometimes the simple and best ideas are right under our noses and this do-it-yourself chicken feeder is one of those revelations – well, in my opinion it is anyway… For many years I've been unhappy with commercial poultry feeders and believe me I have tried nearly all of them! Unfortunately, feed loss is the biggest flaw with most commercial chicken or poultry feeders usually caused by the hens raking out the feed.Ī major design flaw in many of these feeders is the gravity feed element. If you're looking to get chickens and wondering what type of feeder is best to buy than before spending a lot of money perhaps try making a chicken feeder yourself – it's easy and could cost you absolutely nothing! In this short article, I'll show you step by step how I made my chicken feeder. ![]()
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