New DIY Homemade Wood Trough Chicken Feeder - BackYard …
Apr 12, 2012 · Tip --. If you can take the flat top board out and replace it with a 1" dowel rod. Just cut the dowel rod a little short [you want some play in there] and drill a hole in each end of the dowel a little bigger than the nail you are going to use then pound the nail through the side boards and into the hole you drilled.
Our homemade feed trough alreay proving to be a feed saver
Oct 15, 2012 · I have 13 full sized hens and 3 batams. I had a hanging feeder I think one gallon size and was having to fill it up once in the morning and once about supper time. We made the trough feeder yesterday morning and filled it up and no waste. I put a large cookie sheet under it to catch any waste...
Homemade Wood Chicken Feeder - BackYard Chickens
Jan 11, 2012 · The next step was to add the bottom and an angled piece of wood at the bottom of the feeder to direct every last morsel of chicken feed to the bottom front of the feeder. I used an old kitchen cabinet door for these. I cut a 45 degree edge on the angled board to help keep feed from getting stuck. Next I added the front and sides of the feed "tray".
Scatter feed or put it in a trough? - BackYard Chickens
Mar 12, 2013 · SE Pa. Put a wire or a loose dowel a cross the lenght of the trough. This is my chicks trough. When I first put it in at our weeks or so the smaller ones can still stand in it. By the time they are six weeks the wire stops them. Apr 27, 2013.
Best kind of minimal waste feeder? Homemade...trough...or …
Jan 29, 2009 · I'm reading the McMurry catalogue we just received and inside they have several types of feeders, but one comes highly recommended. Its a 4 inch high by 4 ft long trough with bars in a gothic shape that separate the trough into maybe 5 or 6 sections. They say this type has the best results for not wasting feed.
Homemade chicken trough | BackYard Chickens - Learn How to …
Oct 6, 2015 · 847. Jun 26, 2024. Krugerrand. K. Forums. Raising BackYard Chickens. Coop & Run - Design, Construction, & Maintenance. This is a trough my husband made for me out of old PVC pipe. it's works really well and it even stands up well when the chickens get in it.
New DIY Homemade Wood Trough Chicken Feeder - BackYard …
Oct 31, 2024 · While I was painting the new pop door for the run I thought of something to think on. If you have it in side like I do a wire is fine. If its going to be outside a board wide enough to cover the feed would be better to keep the feed dry. Thanks, an …
Homemade Chicken Feeder Pics wanted - BackYard Chickens
May 24, 2008 · My PVC cont. feeder was great until summer humidity took over and the feed didn't flow as well from the storage area into the trough. Same with the feeder I made from buckets and flower pot trays, no flow in humid weather....and we don't even get the high humidity that most folks get. I've found that my trough feeder is not so tempermental.
Homemade Duck Feeders... - BackYard Chickens
Nov 13, 2011 · 11. 146. I took a rubber feed tub that I had laying around and used it as a base for my feeder. Then I took a 5 gallon bucket and drilled holes around the side of it, close to the bottom. I just screwed the rubber feed tub to bottom of the bucket. It works pretty good.
Feed waste, to soak or not soak - BackYard Chickens
Oct 4, 2021 · I have probably less than 1% waste with fermented Scratch & Peck. The company even encourages people to ferment their feed, because if you don't, all the vitamins and protein added to the feed (the powdery fines) go uneaten, and then your birds aren't getting the nutrition they need from the feed. Feb 2, 2022. #4.