No Waste Chicken Feeders
Virtual No Waste Chicken Feeder Workshop
Since the Poultry and Homesteading Faire has been postponed until it at least October 2019, we are offering a Virtual No Waste Chicken Feeder Workshop.
You can make a feeder on your own; if you do, you will need the following tools, bucket, and parts.
Tools:
- A 4-gal square bucket can be found sometimes on CraigsList.com … A square large tote required for a dual-hole feeder.
- Drill with 1/8 bit
- Caulking Gun
- Pop Rivet Gun
- Small piece of sandpaper
- Clear PVC Glue
- White Caulking
Parts
- PVC 4” Hood
- Hood Template
- PVC 4” 45-degree Elbow
- PVC 4-inch Extension Pipe 4’
- Three ½ Aluminum pop rivets
Special Coronavirus Offer
For the first five people who contact us @ 541-765-2109, we will supply the parts for a single hole opening package for @ $25 plus postage with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
We will supply One-on-One personal phone instructions on building the No Waste Chicken Feeder. We will hold your hand until you are satisfied with your feeder or your money back.
Dual Feed Chicken Feeder can have one feed with two chickens OR
Dual Feed Chicken Feeder can have two different types of feeds
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- Two feeds at once – chicken scratch, pellets, or grains and grit or oyster shells at the same time
- Minimal maintenance – fill it up and have it work well, something that makes life easier!
- Something they can’t make a mess with. – the ladies will scratch at anything and fling food everywhere, poo into the food. It must stay clean.
- Keeps the feed dry- feeders that have a dish at the bottom can easily collect water.
Whether you raise poultry for market or maintain a backyard flock, chicken coops are a magnet for rodents.
Rodents often appear in the fall, when their external food sources are depleted by harvest. They emerge from the fields, where they live in burrows, to forage and feed around buildings. In contrast, mice will establish colonies within buildings and might never venture outside.
Rodents are responsible for more than a quarter of all farm fires of unknown origin, but the main risk from infestations is feed contamination and disease exposure to both you and your flock. A rodents can produce more than 40 droppings per day and a gallon or more of urine per year. A variety of human and livestock diseases are spread through contact with rodent excrement, which include cryptosporidiosis, toxoplasmosis, leptospirosis, brucellosis and salmonellosis.
What is needed is a chicken feeder that has no mess, doesn’t spill out over the ground, and doesn’t clog up when the feed gets moist or wet! In fact, a feeder can be specifically used for wet feeds for chickens such as fermented feed and does not attract RODENTS!!!
Problems with Open Feed Store Feeders
Feed Store Feeders cost a little more than our No Waste Feeders. They are made of PVC, metal or plastic. When hung at chicken head level, the chickens can waste a fair bit of food by flinging it out of the feeder with their beaks onto the ground, where it may not get eaten. When it rains, the feed could get wet. You’ll need a funnel or cover on the top if you want to keep birds from perching on top and pooping in the food.
Rodents
Rodents are the big problem with a store bought feeders because if there is chicken feed on the ground, you will have a rodents problem soon or later..
Basic Bucket Feeder
This Basic Bucket Feeder completely eliminates feed mess and waste and also keeps food dry in the rain. A 4-gallon model, (with with a lid or without a lid) takes up as much space as a large chicken so it might not be appropriate for small coops. As noted previously the basic feeder only has one feeding position so this model might not be good for a big flock .
First thing you need is a 4-gallon bucket. Next you need 3″ PVC elbow and a 3-1/2″ hole saw. Cut the end of the elbow and then figure out where the hole in the bucket should be so that when you stick the cut end into the bucket it’s about 3/4″ off the bottom. Silicone around inside and out, put the top on the bucket and you’re set!
You see the chicken’s head, inside is an 90 degree elbow bending downward, like an L that tipped forward. It is up off the bottom and the food runs around this and it keeps the food back from the hole. The chicken then sticks it’s head in to reach to the back and get the food.
The Basic Bucket Feeder eliminates the cleaning of feeder, no more “poop in the feed.” It is ideal sized and it keeps feed available at all times even when raining. Holds approximately 10 -15 lbs. of feed.
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For more information contact:
Main Office – Hours noon – 9pm …. Depoe Bay, OR 97341
541-765-2109
info@siletzrentals.com
82 Siletz Hwy Lincoln City OR 97367
Living Center Oregon 
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