Best do it yourself automatic chicken feeder
I've seen a lot of automatic
chicken feeder designs and I think this simple use of PVC pipe with a
cut out trough is an idea that works the best if you need to leave your
flock for a few days and you want the feed to be automatically
replenished with the help of gravity.
Usually I see these projects
from afar on the internet, but today Anna and I were lucky enough to
see this setup first hand when we got a chance to visit Everett and Missy's new
awesome farm today.
I could even see a version of
this being practical in a chicken
tractor if someone was
needing to be away more than a couple of days at a time.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Bladerunner, we use that U-shaped setup for our turkeys since their long necks can easily dip in there. As Anna said, I like the longer trough type of setup so several chickens can eat at once.
And thanks to the 5-gallon bucket automatic chicken waterers we put in with Anna and Marks' product, we can leave for weekend trips without having to worry about our spoiled little flock. They'll be mad at us when we return, but that's nothing some leftover cornbread won't take care of.