New Chicken Feeder

One of the things that makes us not be able to leave the farm for several days is feeding the chickens. The cow, goats, and sheep can either eat grass in the summer or I can put out a big bale of hay in winter that will last them for a couple weeks. The dogs have a big feeder that feeds them for several weeks if filled. But the feeder I have had in the chicken coop has had to be filled every two days or so. It looks like this....



Since it did not hold very much, I also had to have a big trashcan in the coop to hold the feed and then get it out of there to refill the feeder. So, I decided I wanted to get a bigger feeder so we did not have to fill it so often (and I could make more room by getting rid of the trash can). I started looking online and found one that a guy had built for his chicken coop. You can click here to see it. I decided I liked his design and thought it would work for me. So, I built one modeled after his that would work in my coop.

It is about 4 feet tall, 28 inches wide, and 10 inches deep. It has a slanted board inside on the bottom that helps get the feed into the outside food tray and it has a removable top to put the feed in. The best part is that it holds a lot of feed. I am guessing somewhere between 150-200 lbs. That will feed the chickens for a really long time without having to refill it.