Building a PVC chicken feeder was quite easy. Depending on what size you want to make you need the following.
Shopping List:
1 PVC Pipe
1 PVC "Y" Connector
2 couplers This has threads on one side.
2 Caps
PVC glue
Hacksaw.
Now you need to know the height of your run or how tall you want it in your barn or coup.
Our run is about 4' tall and we have it there in the run so that you do not have to open it to feed the girls. In hindsight, I wish I would have put it in the coup because the rain gets into the part with the food. Next time I will do this instead. I would make it at a comfortable height for you to pour the grain in it.
I made several so I used full-length tubes, but they also come in 4' sections. So take your hacksaw and cut the pipe. Put glue on the outside of the pipe and inside the smooth side of your coupler.
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This is a self-feeding feeder, as the birds eat the food comes down the pipe and into the "Y" connector for the chickens to eat freely. Just refill as it gets low.
The girls love it!!!
I love it and recommend it! Now if you will excuse me, I am back to my breakfast.
Great job! I would love for you to come share at the From the Farm Blog Hop.
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Fresh Eggs Daily
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Thank you!
DeleteThis is a great idea- I've seen other PVC pipe feeders, and this one seems the most simple. Thank-you! :) And your Brahma is a beauty!!
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Yellow Birch Hobby Farm
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Thank you!
DeleteThis is a great idea! I have shown this post to Mountain Man so he can build them for me- I mean our chickens! Thanks for sharing on Homestead Blog Hop!
ReplyDeleteJen from The Easy Homestead
Thank you. LOL. Lucky chickens. You're welcome!
DeleteThis is awesome and seems easy enough to make! We purchased ours, but if we ever need another one, I'd love ot have something like this! Posts like this would be perfect for the Waste Less Wednesday Blog Hop. I'd love for you to check it out: http://www.skipthebag.com/2017/01/waste-less-wednesday-blog-hop-1417.html
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