Chicken feeder ideas

As the number of chickens starts ballooning on your homestead, you will start to go through a lot of feed if you are not prepared. Over the years we have used this diy garbage can chicken feeder and this diy no waste chicken feeder bin. But recently this new diy long arm PVC chicken feeder

Easy PVC no spill chicken feeder. No more losing feed to chickens tossing their food and no more feed attracting rodents.

My husband built this to keep the rain off the chicken feed blogged

I considered using a milk jug but didn't like the size as you risk unnecessary spillage while trying to pour the feed into the 3" pipe. My scooper is...

Before leaving on a 10-day camping trip, I filled up the water dish for the chickens…and grumbled the entire time. I really wanted some kind of large reservoir…so the online research began! Here’s how I built an automatic chicken waterer.

Need to try this!

I made this chicken feeder. It is made out of 1 piece of 3 inch pipe 2 end caps and one 90° elbow. I cut a 1.5 foot piece off one end and drilled 1.75 inch holes with a door knob style hole cutter. I fit them together and stuck it through the hole in the chicken wire resting it on the bottom. I attached it to the 2"x4" with a metal strap with a piece of 1"x3"x 4" spacer made of scrap wood. I put a handle on the top of the top end cap.for easy removal and easy filling. Chickens are already…

Check out this DIY Feeder Guide to build your own PVC chicken feeder including plans for hanging, automatic & trough feeders.

PVC Chicken Feeder: We wanted a lot from our chicken feeder: it had to be easy to fill, hard to spill, safe from non-chicken life forms, weather resistant, easy to make, and inexpensive. We tried a number of other designs that worked to varying degrees, but this was th…

Chicken feeders are insanely expensive...or maybe I'm just insanely cheap. $30+ for a bucket with holes in it just seemed wrong to me. I made this one from a Home Depot bucket bolted to a 16" plant saucer, for a total cost of about $8. If you look closely you can see openings around the bottom of the bucket (made using my trusty Dremel tool) for the feed to come out of. I left the handle on the bucket so I can hang the feeder if I want to.