We've been using this style of feeder in 5 gallon buckets for the past 2 years, and they work great! Hardly any waste. We cut notches in the bottom of the elbow so it can rest on the bottom of the bucket, making it very stable (about half of the elbow is notched out). Although the crows are eating the feed, you want to keep them coming around! Crows chase off the hawks. Put out pans of corn for them.
Empty soup cans. GENIUS! I’m hoping I get to the point where I can grow enough grains and seeds to start making my own dry feed to go along with the kitchen scraps and greens that we currently feed. Something like this would be great!
I've looked at several videos to make a feeder as our chickens cause a mess. Your's has been the best. And the soup can idea is a deal maker. Great idea. Thank you
I love your high tech solutions!... and your chicken, pig, and calf math. Always a new way to think out of the box. I need to try your english muffin and sour dough recipes. Maybe next week. Too much to do now that it is 'spring'.
Another thing you could use is a threaded elbow where you tighten a nut on the threaded end to keep it in place as well as you can get a threaded cap and cap it at night. Also before you thread the nut on you could put an O-ring on it then tighten the nut on the O-ring to make it water tight. It does mean you will spend a little more money but in the long run you will save even more money in feed from water and pests.
Love the hi tech idea 👍👍 Just watched your diy water bucket 🪣!! Gathering info/ ideas… going to get chickens 🐓 this next spring. Been following & you two are amazing 🤩. Love the teamwork.🐓👩🌾❣️
Brilliant! You know, I really appreciate the practical tips, techniques and solutions you consistently offer on your channel. Your efforts are a blessing to me, and I'm sure to many others! :-)
Thanks for sharing looks like a great feeder for your chickens and I love the quick way to keep other animals out of the feeder low-tech it works great. Thanks and have a great and blessed day :-)
very nice video! after watching TONS of videos on diy chicken feeders this was by far the best one! And you didn't even make it on video :-) Very enjoyable to listen to, easy to follow directions and information! Excellent!
Ive been a subscriber now i havent been notified of any notification about any new videos. Just whining love your work will love you folks. Keep up the good work
That's a good talented idea to stop the rodents away from eating the chickens's food. And thanks you so much for telling the wonderful details informations, that we'd never ever think of.
Excellent info as always, been watching for a while but getting chicks in a couple weeks. I have a starter coop and planning a larger run and placement of feeder and waterer. getting 6-8 chicks and since this is my first go at it, hoping for the best.
Thank you for this video. We have a big problem with sparrows like a dozen or more trying to live with our chickens. I will try your idea and also going to add a little flimsy plastic strips I saw in another video . They said it keeps the sparrows away but chickens will stick their heads past them. But they didn’t have your 90 degree elbow idea which I love. Thank you. I subscribed.
Great job on those feeders! I am curious to what the green thimble(s) were on the outside of the can, the feeder that was in service? Some sort of holders for camp lights (base for the little propane bottles)? Stay Blessed My Friend
I actually made one for my chickens last year and still use it with no problems but never made a video for it because I am not too good at making videos so when I seen yours I thought this would be perfect for my website and it will get you views from my viewers too. I don't have very many on my RU-vid channel yet but I get 100 thousand views a week on my website.
Great feeder! I was thinking you had some alarm set up to your smart phone to stop the crows! Old school tip are the best! lol Thanks so much for sharing how to make the feeder.
Thanks so much I was going to going with another plan using PVC pipe but I have 46 chickens and I think this idea of yours is going to work just great. Will this same plan work with water?🤔
Great idea, I have two of these , but they are NOT spill proof! The birds make a gigantic mess with these even more so than what I was using before. Inside or out such waste! a catch pan is what I am thinking at this point ...thus another thing to clean. For all we do to make our lives easier these animals have much more time to make us more work.
My, this looks familiar. 😜 I agree, this style of feeder is great. I made mine (and did a video about it) about 3 years ago. It worked great for my situation at the time.
Glad it's been working for you. We have been using this style for about 5 years and love it. There are a lot of great videos and versions out there to help people make them.
Yes, there are. I think the first one I saw was from a guy in Australia, but I can't swear to it, it's been so long. Yeah, it's a great yet simple design that works very well.
Do you have a diy large container for water for chickens. I like the 5 gal diy you’ve demoed, but I wondered about one for a larger supply of water. Thanks
As I was watching the video, the whole time I was thinking “rats”. I have had some problems that I was able to resolve through better control of food. When I saw what you did with the soup cans I “genius”. A simple and elegant solution.
It can be hard to keep up with any improvements made over the years and I know with me I don’t have the capability to search for just your chicken (or pig or rabbit or whatever). What would be fantastic is if you pulled up old videos and recycle and re-edit them together. For instance, pull up all your videos on chicken feeders and start with your first rendition. You would then transition to any improvement or changes you made next followed by the next etc. You can explain which one you like the best or why you might have more than one type and then at the end you coup edit in your favorite build. Because homesteading can be an ever-evolving lifestyle it would be great to see how your homestead is evolving and show some of the best of practices for newbies who don’t end up seeing all of your older videos. And it would be a great way to freshen up the info on some of these cold winter days when you really don’t want to go out in the cold to video new subjects. I just rewatched your video on moving pigs when things didn’t go as planned and they escaped which I loved😂. Moving pigs would be great to show the evolution on your processes. Recycling/re-editing these topics would not only be very informative and show that even if you started with a good process you can always improve on it and it can help encourage other new homesteaders to see that they don’t have to be perfect once they step on their new property. Really enjoy what you share with us and think you both are excellent teachers. Always look forward to new videos and also watching some of the older ones too.
We had serious problems with this feeder design. The dominant chickens will keep the others away or scared to put their head in it. Our egg production went way down. Your mileage may vary. I had to add another feeder. Thanks for sharing.
Thinking of doing this style of feeder but my husband is worried about moisture. Does rain get in? Living in the south we have a lot of humidity, does that harm the feed?
Our WiFi has been awful and I haven't been able to keep up with your videos lately 😖 glad I was able to stream this one....even though it buffered the whole time!! #countryprobs
Very nice, thank you so much for this. We just got 21 chicks this year and they're about to go out with the other 11 chickens that we have, I've been researching ways to be more efficient on their feed because they waste a lot of food on the ground on their open feeders, this really helps, thank you. I may have to build 3 of these. lol
Hi, great idea,, just a question: how do you keep the rain out ? at least one of the four holes must face windward ! can that not drive rain into the bin, and make the grain moist and stickey ?? when used outdoors ?
AWESOME IDEA! I've seen this question asked a couple of times but am asking again. The feeder you showed at the end is a little different than the first one, the distance to the feed from the outside is shorter. What are the green pieces? I think I like would prefer those. Love the soup cans 😉 Thanks for sharing. Very informative. God bless ❤
Do you have problems with birds of prey coming after your chickens? We have that problem here in Ca...... my sister had to get some bird netting to put over their chicken pen because of hawks.
You probably already know big chickens can’t really fly that good they aren’t too much of a problem to keep in a fence it’s those lil guys that love to fly out
Yours was simply the bestest and easiest design on RU-vid, I made mine in a jiffy and I think the chickens will love it when they use it tomorrow (the silicone is still drying :)
