That is a vary great job a great video thanks for helping us we needed a good solution to feed our pigs at a low cost your bulk feeder is low cost and great design
With the agitator/agitaion there is always feed in the bowl. But not too much to encourage wastage/the minimum of loss during actual feeding. Because the bottom outlets do not extend to the pan's sides. And. Because amongst other. A pig can only get its mouth to the feed. Experience makes any man wise!
Do these need to be food grade Ibc totes? I have a lot of these around me but they have had chemicals In them. Being they it’s just dry feed and not water, would cutting the top and cleaning the inside really good be enough to not contaminate the feed?
Its not a problem unless it's several inches. Just to reiterate, this is a bulk feeder for large groups of pigs. They eat the feed out quickly. If you build one of these for 2 pigs then water could be an issue.
Why not put the container on a deck that's on skids and cut holes at the bottom so the feed falls into the deck and you poor feed into the top of the container that you've cut off? This will give you a much larger feeding area. My large hogs would never be able to eat out of the small deck as in this vid.
Makes a hell of a rodent and varmint feeder to since it doesn't have any lids where feed comes out, I mean Factory hog feeders come with flip-up doors the hog leff's to eat out of so that you're not feeding rats and varmints, not at all good at those young pigs get their front feet in there, this setup should cause a lot of feed waste and lost
This is an open invitation for you to come out to our farm and see them in action. I wouldn't be posting a video (and why I didn't for the 3 years of development) if it didn't work well. I'm not worried about the occasional possum taking a couple bites out on the pasture. Better some pig feed than some chickens. 😉
@@FarmBuilder I have no desire to visit your farm and apparently you and I have very different ideas on proper feeding of Our stock, your reply proves my comment varmints in the feed
Lol.. If you have feed on pasture you will have some wildlife take a nibble. I have never seen a feeder that prevents this. We've had full grown black bears eating out of a pride of the farm feeder right along side the pigs. Flipped the lids and everything. An occasional rodent is something I lose zero sleep over.