![]() Finally he added the 8″ length of PVC to serve as the feeding tube for the chickens. To the wye he added the 5″ length to the bottom to make a foot of sorts to hold the feeding tube off the ground. This will allow a feeding tube for the chickens. So first RancherMan retrieved a 5-foot long piece of the 3″ PVC pipe we had stored away from a previous project. (3) PVC caps – one top, one bottom, one to close the feeding tube at night.(1) 8″ length PVC pipe for feeding tube.(1) 5″ length of PVC pipe to raise feeding tube off the ground.(1) PVC Wye to make base for feeding tube.(1) 5-ft length of PVC pipe to hold chicken feed.(Note: All PVC pipe materials below are 3″ in diameter) Here’s a list of what we used to assemble our own PVC chicken feeder: PVC Chicken Feeder Materials: Well it was because we already had some PVC that size in the shed! LOL #UseWhatchaGot, y’all. Want to know the technical & scientific reason why we chose 3-inch? RancherMan & I decided on a 3″ diameter feeder. She said her feed bill was cut in half.Ĭhicken Feed Bill Cut In HALF!!? Well color me interested! What Size PVC For A Chicken Feeder? So she and her hubs built a PVC chicken feeder. She’d mentioned that she too was frustrated with the feed her chickens wasted. Meeting Another Chicken-Raising Homesteaderīut then at a Mother Earth News Fair I attended one year I was able to share a table with another Texas girl at a chicken seminar we attended. It was easy to fill and sturdy.īut although it did help reduce the chicken-feed waste, way too much was still being wasted. ![]() I first used a plastic canister and a metal pan lid. So I experimented with various ways to make our own lower-waste chicken feeder. How To Reduce Waste When Feeding Chickens Hey, we’re feeding these girls organic layer pellets, and that’s not chicken feed ya know…īut it’s too expensive to be wasteful & sweep it out of the coop & onto the ground! There’s got to be a way to keep them from wasting so much. ![]() But how… I Hated The Waste Of All That Chicken FeedĪs I watched them once again sweep their beaks across their feed dish, scattering that expensive feed out and upon the ground, I sighed. It does neither them nor me any good to have purchased feed dumped on the ground and tread upon or just attract vermin. Still, I needed a way to reduce the waste the chickens made with their feed. I was so frustrated.ĭang girls, were you raised in a barn? (Oh, yeah right, strike that…) The first time I cleaned out the coop I started to sweep out the hay bedding and found it was heavy with wasted feed & grain. That ends up slinging much of their food out of the feeder. They use their beaks to sweep their feed from side to side. One thing I noticed when we first bought chickens several years ago was how wasteful they were. But did it work as advertised? Check it out & see… ![]() Chickens waste a LOT of feed! So we made an Inexpensive PVC chicken feeder that’s SUPPOSED to cut down on wasted feed. ![]()
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