My original intention (still is sometime in the near future) is to add a page to this blog with the information I have gathered so in the future any visitors that perhaps have not seen the different posts will easily find the information. I get several visits a day on this blog from people searching for information on ways to make a chicken feeder. So I plan on starting with the entries and eventually will end up making a permanent page.
Today I’m highlighting a PVC chicken feeder. It is also an automatic chicken feeder.
These pictures came from Rooster Red in West GA. She wrote:
“Here is a feeder that was given to me recently by a friend. He used it to feed cracked corn to deer, but I use it to feed my RIR flock. It’s made from 2 pieces of 4″ pvc pipe, 1 elbow and 2 caps. There are drain holes drilled in the bottom in case rain blows in. There is no waste because the chickens can’t scratch or bill the feed out.”
What a great way to keep the feed up and out of scratching feet way. Thanks, Rooster, for allowing me to use your pictures. This homemade chicken feeder is a great idea!
If you are reading this and you have a homemade chicken feeder you have created, send me some pictures along with a little explanation. I will be glad to highlight in one of my postings.
Tags: chicken feeder, Chickens, Hens, rooster
August 5th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
I made that out of 4″ sewer pipe instead of PVC because it was MUCh cheaper. it cuts like butter with a hack saw. I made mines 4 1/2 feet tall and it is very awkward to fill up. 4′ would have been the perfet height. The bottom should be about 12″ long. I made mines a little smaller and it is okay for 2 chickens but not more than that.
Hope that helps. gerat site!
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November 4th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Do you know or have any ideas to build an electric/electronic chicken feeder?
Build one like an auto fish feeder which releases fish-feed by using an electric motor/system to a require amount & times. This will be good for free range chooks or lazy people. Also will prevent rats, mice, wild birds, etc.. from eating the feed. It can be mounted high to prevent mice/rats to get to the fee.
Thanks.
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Bryan Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Why not use a automatic feeders like deer and turkey hunters use? They can hold a large amount of feed, are designed to be weatherproof, are above ground so they’re rodent proof, can be solar powered, feed amount and time is programable, and are fairly inexpensive if you watch E-Bay.
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leck Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Hi,
That sounds perfect. However I have never seen a deer/turkey
feeder which hunters use.
Therefore please help where to see one. I’ll search for it on the
net in the mean time.
In where I am we hunt deer by stalking only and/or using dogs.
I have seen deer in farms but they don’t use the feeder.
Thank you.
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November 19th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Great idea. We’ve been trying to find something that would stay cleaner. Think I’ll try this with a variation — have it go through the wall and into the coop so that the food is protected from other animals.
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April 25th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
great idea! i’m making one tomorrow! thanks for sharing.
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April 27th, 2009 at 10:26 am
great idea!! thanks for sharing.
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August 1st, 2009 at 1:40 pm
buiding one of thesefeeders tommorow hope it works as good ast he other type
george
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August 23rd, 2009 at 9:43 am
I am so happy for this good idea I am building one tomorrow.
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October 11th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
I like the looks of the PVC feeder, anyone have any ideal how many I would need for 14-16 chickens?
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Carole Reply:
October 12th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Sue, I would think two would work adequately for you. I have about 10 chickens per feeder in my coops and have no problems thus far.
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Sue Reply:
October 12th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Thank you, I’m new to raising chickens. I’m going through 2 50 lbs per week, hope this will cut down on the feed.
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December 4th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
what a fabulous idea. Thank you sooo much. I am fed up of my chickens scratching our the feed from their floor based feeder. So much grain has been wasted not to mention encouraging rodents. I will be going to the depot tomorrow to buy the pieces to make one. Thanks again.
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Carole Reply:
December 10th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Jacky, Glad you like the idea and hope it works as well for you as it does for me!
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December 17th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Thank you, that is really great information! I am going to build one of those. I also liked the idea of using an auto deer feeder, although I haven’t seen how they feed. Does anyone know if the feed is spread around, or just dropped to the ground? Is it controlled enough to put some kind of pan beneath it? I have 25 chickens and we are starting to get cold here (freezing temps) and I have heat tapes on their water (although the chickens seem to like cold water more than heated water)it is working to keep their water from freezing. If the PVC pipe or sewer pipe wouldn’t allow enough to eat at one time, I could do two of them, or at least use them for grit and oyster shell. This is a great idea! Thanks!!
gil
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March 15th, 2010 at 11:31 pm
I wonder if you could cut a channel up and down in the vertical piece of pvc, then place a piece of clear plexiglass in it. You could tell at a glance if the feeder needs to be refilled or not.
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July 5th, 2010 at 7:46 pm
I’m building one using a 5 gallon bucket and a large plant pot saucer. However, this one looks much easier. I would make an “umbrella” over the feed area, using the piece which was cut out, to keep moisture from being a problem.
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July 6th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Was looking for something somewhat rodent proof and bird proof (sparrows). First, I didn’t want to attract rodents and second the sparrows eat so much of the chicken scratch and the chickens end up running out of food way to soon. So I needed something to prevent both the rodents/birds out, yet at the same time feed my chickens.
Came across this interesting automatic feeder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....eature=fvw
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