Do-it-yourself chicken feeder: cheap, fast and efficient

DIY chicken feeders
In order to grow well, gain weight and be healthy, a living organism needs food in sufficient volume for it. Those who raise chickens and chickens on their farmyard know all too well about this. Suffice it to say that in the first seven weeks of life, a chicken, from which a full-fledged laying hen should grow, eats about one and a half kilograms of compound feed. If there are dozens of such chickens, it is necessary to solve the problem of timely and adequate nutrition.

Ideally, the chicken itself is looking for food for its pets. But since we need to provide them with every chick, we have to get feeders. Otherwise, a lot of time will be wasted, which is traditionally not enough for other economic affairs. The task - to put compound feed into the tank once and calmly go home - is solved with a minimum of costs if you make chicken feeders with your own hands. With the widespread use of plastic containers of various shapes and volumes, this issue is further simplified. It is enough to have a minimum of tools and quite a bit of ingenuity.

Chicken feeder
The first do-it-yourself chicken feeder is made for newly acquired chicks. One plastic bucket from under the ice cream and one disposable plate will go to the structure (if you want, calculate their cost yourself). Nippers make oblique cuts in the form of teeth along the entire circumference of the bucket, so that it becomes like a small turret of a fortress. Unnecessary handle "bites off". Feed is poured into the bucket, covered with a plate from above and turned over, and a sinker lays on the bottom for stability. Chickens peck food, and as she spends herself, she spills out on a plate.

When your pets are a little older, you will need a bigger chicken feed, made with your own hands. To make it, you need to take a plastic bucket with a capacity of 3-5 liters and a round four-section dog bowl. Moreover, the bottom of the bucket should cover the bowl no more than half. Four holes are drilled in its bottom and ribs of the sections of the bowl for fastening with each other screws and nuts. Then, closer to the bottom edges, four larger holes are drilled so that they are directly above the sections. After fastening the structure, it remains to fill the bucket with compound feed and install it in the chicken coop. This time the handle cannot be removed: this portable feeder is very convenient to use.
DIY chicken feeder

If you have so many chicks that, as they say, the apple has nowhere to fall, and the feed needs to find a permanent place, then you need a large and thorough chicken feeder. With your own hands it is quite possible to make it. For a container for compound feed, a ten-liter canister is required, in which part of the bottom or the entire bottom is cut off. A small plastic bowl will serve as a bowl . Its upper part should be cut so that the chicken feeder does not interfere with their access to food. The canister is mounted above the center of the basin on three supports of suitable material, bent from the center to the edges for better stability. The supports are bolted to the tank; it is also possible (although not necessary) to do this with a basin. The lid opens in the canister and compound feed is poured inside. The handle provides design mobility.

As you have already seen, the do-it-yourself chicken feeder is quick to make, while it is reliable and suitable for almost any amount of feed. It makes life easier for the owner of the compound, since chickens, especially broilers, need constant access to food, and from time to time during the day it is rather troublesome to pour food to the bird.


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