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Inside of coop portion.<\/p>\n
When we got the chickens I soon tired of refilling the small feeders every couple of days, so, being the miser that I am, I soon built a feeder with a 5 gallon bucket and a planter tray.\u00a0 This was a nice improvement, a couple weeks worth of feed could be placed in the bucket and I didn’t have to worry about it so often.\u00a0 The only problem was that the birds spilled a large quantity of feed onto the ground.\u00a0 They think they are spoiled and refused to eat it off of the ground.\u00a0 I was fed up when they were going through 5 gallons of feed in one week.\u00a0 6 birds should not be able to eat that much, and most of it was wasted on the ground.\u00a0 Not wanting to spend a large amount of money on a bigger commercial feeder I came up with my own solution.\u00a0 Again it involved a 5 gallon bucket (a re-purposed one that used to hold their water (That upgrade will follow in another post), some PVC pipe, and a cheap metal feeder.\u00a0 I cut a hole in the bucket to accept the pvc pipe, and a hole in the feeder to accept the pvc pipe.\u00a0 After a 45 degree cut in the pvc pipe to allow the feed to flow into the feeder, and some pvc connections, it works great.\u00a0 Only when spoiled or wet feed clumps together in the pipe clogging up the process do I have to get in and clean everything out.\u00a0 Otherwise, the bag of feed now lasts about 5 weeks, longer than ever before, and there is virtually no spillage or spoilage.\u00a0 Happy birds make happy, healthy eggs!<\/p>\n
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Outside of coop portion.<\/p>\n