Gravity chicken feeder

Up to now I've been using a DIY chicken feeder made from a Tractor Supply bucket and a large flower pot plate/bottom. It worked out well, but eventually got on my nerves with the amount of space it takes up, the heaviness of it when it's full, and the constant need to shake the food down. So I've been looking for a while at other options in DIY feeders and came across this one on Pinterest..... http://pinterest.com/pin/95631192058204649/ I thought it was neat, and didn't look like it would…

It’s not that I don’t enjoy feeding our chickens every day, but when they started pecking at my toes because their food dish was empty for too long (a.k.a. more than five seconds), I de…

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Chicken feeders are insanely expensive...or maybe I'm just insanely cheap. $30+ for a bucket with holes in it just seemed wrong to me. I made this one from a Home Depot bucket bolted to a 16" plant saucer, for a total cost of about $8. If you look closely you can see openings around the bottom of the bucket (made using my trusty Dremel tool) for the feed to come out of. I left the handle on the bucket so I can hang the feeder if I want to.

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Chicken Gravity Feeder

The height of this feeder helps prevent spillage. Just up off the ground enough that they can't comfortably beak food out. But placement would be different...

Want a coop tour? Oh, I'm so glad you said yes! I am more than a little stoked about my chicks' new digs. This was a DIY green build through and through. We spent exactly zero dollars on wood. All of the wood was reclaimed and generously gifted to us....

Chicken Tractor with gravity feeder and nipple waterer https://thebayougypsy.com/2017/04/27/bayou-bunkhouse/

$6 Gravity Powered Auto Chicken Feeder: Seeing how much the self refilling feeders cost at the feed store put me in financial shock. The cheapest one was $30 bucks !! I decided to scour the Internet and see if anybody had any DIY ideas on how to build one at home. There's thousands of ide…

This is surely the simplest chicken feeder ever! This DIY PVC Feeder is a must for your chicken coop, which helps preventing chickens scooping the feed out of the feeder and it’s so easy to make. This will make your life so much easier and save money, cool? (Image: Backyard Chickens) Let’s go further to […]

This feeder improves on other PVC gravity feeder designs by solving these key problems: Mess and wasted feed: The enclosed feeder design and front spill guard eliminates mess and wasted feed Rain getting in the feeder opening: A rain hood...

I made a large no waste chicken feeder for my daughters coop and it works well. The plastic tote is the only thing that bothers me. It was brittle when I made it and it is probably going to get wor…

So I'm making this page to enter into the feeder contest but I did not come up with the idea. It came from the following post along with many other PVC feeder ideas. The feeder is simply a 4 inch PVC pipe with a 90 degree angle piece, and a cap...

Automatic feeders offer several huge benefits over traditional (gravity) feeders. After reading this article you will know all there is to know about automatic chicken feeders...