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Low budget automatic chicken feeder

Automatic chicken feederIn addition to experimenting to see how much you can tilt chicken nipples, Michael also cobbled together a very nice automatic feeder for less than $6.  He wrote:

The important part is the roof vent from a 4" water heater vent turned upside down and screwed to a board to keep it from being over-turned by the chickens....I was buying parts for the building I'm putting up near Burbank and saw this vent thingie....nearby was an adaptor to go from 4" to 5" and then the weird cap was from an old floor furnace exhaust vent that I took from the house when I put in Central Heat this winter. I needed something to cover the open "top" to keep the rain and mice out and that old vent top just fit. What luck.

I'll send another photo of a feeder I made from stuff at the second-hand store - $2 worth of candy dish and a plastic basket....Nothing's too good for these chickens!


We posted a couple of years ago about a PVC pipe automatic feeder and would love to hear from readers who have made other easy (and cheap) feeders.

Meanwhile, don't forget to try out automatic chicken waterer to expedite the other half of your daily chicken chores.



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Mine has worked well for several years and can be made in any size. I think you have a picture.
Comment by Errol — terribly early Wednesday morning, February 8th, 2012
Another automatic feeder
Good reminder! I'll have to dig up those photos and post about it.
Comment by anna — late Thursday afternoon, February 9th, 2012
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