Automatic Chicken Feeder
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2014
- Check out the latest addition to the chicken coop - The Automatic Chicken Feeding System. It is not fully automatic I suppose because you do still have to fill it with food but that is about it. No more walking in the coop and filling the tiny feeder that we had, and this one is much cleaner. In this video I run through the build process for this simple feeder design and also show it in action. This should hold enough food for a few days at least and will cut down on the amount of time spent cleaning out and filling the smaller feeders. This is also much better than the feeders that sit on the ground as they get full of dirt quickly and need to be cleaned. I am using 4" drainage piping for this project which is much cheaper than the 4" schedule 40 PVC. The fittings for the drainage pipe are also much cheaper keeping the cost of this project under $20. Thanks for watching and for more information or other sustainable projects please visit simplesuburbanliving.com
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Thanks! We introduced our juvenile chicks to this feeder today and they went right for it.
Thank you so much for putting this video up :-) I just finished my auto feeder today on my coop and I'm waiting on some parts for my waterer.
Just made one yesterday. Once I had the materials, it took about a half hour to cut, put together and install. Went out to the coop this morning and no more mess from the chickens kicking feed all over the place.
Thank you brother.
I know this video is old but I've watched many of them last couple years.
Finally started a channel too.
I hope it'll bring some good to some.
Great design! Clean and efficient!
I would suggest cutting a rectangular hole along the side of one of the pipes and then covering it with a piece of clear tubing, cut apropriately so that you may be able to check the amount of feed or water that is in the system.
Markos Mavris That is a great idea and something I am surely doing for the watering system this spring, thanks for checking it out!
Your setup is really nice & thank you for showing us what you have done. I wanted to mention (in case you don't know) chickens love every scrap you have left from the table. They eat table scraps better than a dog, and we all know how much a dog loves table scraps. Boy does people food make chickens lay eggs. (meat included)
Thanks from Libya 🇱🇾 it's a nice idea
Bless you 😊
I love how interested they are wile you cut out that fence piece. They're always trying to figure out what the hecks going on but they never do. Ha.
+Jesse Deptula lol, yeah they never quite figure much out:) They are very curious plus they always think I have some sort of treat or food for them. That seems to be all they really care about in life.
I just watched both the auto watering and feeder videos. I will be adding those to my coop this year. My five hens are just over a year old now and they go through about 3 lbs of feed and almost 3 gal of water per day. Love your videos.
You will be very happy having these setup for your hens. Since I only have to check the feed and water every few days I sometimes forget I have to take care of them:) Good luck with your setup!
Nice work, you are the man for building chicken coops! I do everything by hand. I have 5 chickens and 4 ducks, they free roam. I live in the country, in Wisconsin.
Glad you liked it, more upgrades coming soon, thanks for watching!
Nice! Oh and if you didn't notice I subscribed without a doubt! Will watch those new videos I want to see how its coming along! LOVE the ideas your so creative!
Thank you! Our family has been considering getting chickens and your videos have helped us tremendously! Sending some other families here for the videos.
Mick Fleck Excellent, glad to hear it!
These shortcuts & tricks of the trade are ingenious!
Your the greatest sander I ever saw lol. Great idea. Thanks for sharing. God Bless
SDR 35 sewer. good multi purpose. Think I'll build one. thanks. Will add a five gallon bucket to the hopper.
Great job on the build
Thanks so much for sharing! I appreciate it!
GOOD STUFF! Thanks for sharing.
Good build! Thanks!
Another thing, put a spoon of vinegar to each litre of water to prevent bacteria formation and also to prolong it's functionality during winter cold. it's lowering the liquids freezing point.
Will that also take care of the green Alge that shows up? I have well water so there is no chemicals in it
Nice demo. Thanks.
That was an awesome idea thanks!!!!!! I love your chickens!!
Great video. Just what I need. Thanks!!!!!
Thank You for Sharon the scripure at the end!
Nice design. Thanks for the video.
Great job, thanks for the informative videos!
No problem, glad you found it useful! Let me know if you have any questions as you dive into owning chickens:)
I saw an awesome trick to show how much food is left. Drill a small hole in the top where you fill the food at. Place a wooden dowel inside it. The dowel will sit on top of the food and slowly sink as the food supply lowers. You can even paint the dowel at different levels, ie 3 days of food left.
+Darkking Ice I saw that on another video also, that is a great idea!
Love this Chicken Coop... I was looking for ideas and I think I may be stealing a few of yours... thanks
Great stuff! Thanks. Im going to have a go at it.
Great job! Keep up the videos! I find your videos packed with info and love how they are family friendly!
Thanks much for sharing I love it
Brilliant idea
Really cool video for the TIME as we now know it.
Love it. I keep 400+ chickens all in different pens. Gonna give this a try.
Why do you have so many chickens?
Cleanless is a must to keep your hen healthy
Thank for your video.
Hey SSL,,,, me again,,,,love your feeder simple design,,and also have some design improvements,,,,at the "T" use 2,,,,, 1/8 in 45 bends this will help the feed slide down toward the opening,,,good job ps,,,,thats schd 80 pipe
Great job sir. Simple and effective.
really good ready to try to make
Great video bro!! Made an exact same one thanks to you! PVC way to pricey for what’s its gnna be used for
Thanks for the scripture!
getting into this can't wait thank you for the video very helfull
Dana Lester np, good luck and glad to hear you are taking the leap into the chicken people world:)
SSLFamilyDad I am also going to give backyard chickens a try and the two videos about the water and the food are very good.
Awesome good luck with that still in the process of building my coop and chicken run good lord willing I'll be able to finish it this week
Brilliant! 🌻🌻
Gonna make one. Thx
Great innovation yes!🥰
I thought it would be mechanical-automatic but this is really nice
Nice design, you made cutting the trough look easy. I happen to notice that you glued the wrong side of some of the pipe. I don't think it made much of a difference since the main part of the feeder is under the coop.
Your setup was so neat, I made the same thing for my chickens. Unfortunately living in Phoenix AZ, this system didn't work too well. After 1 week, I opened up the lid to add more food and found lots of mold growing. Pipe was the same length and angle of yours. I was so bummed! I did notice the young chickens (7 weeks old) were shying away from this feeder! No wonder! Moldy food - and when I disassembled it - wow - very bad smell. Maybe it was the food? The higher than normal humidity the past few weeks? Not sure. Just wanted others to be aware of my experience in the AZ climate.
+Kim Ward for the first two years this feeder never got wet but as soon as the joints loosened up from me shaking it all around I also started getting moisture inside. Make sure you glue the fittings very well and also pit a screw in each joint. If you can, make the feeder pipe go straight into the feeder without the 45's that should do the trick!
Kim Ward Hey Kim, i also live in Az up in prescott and the rain can be pretty bad sometime so that one thing that i will need to watch out for. When I'm done making it I'll up this on how it goes.
Grant how well is it working now?
wow. good thinking. I also have a 5 chicken and 2 chick
low as well but if they don't think %
Does the feed fill out into the 1 foot cut section? I have been debating this way or just a dew pipes with elbows.
wow nice new subscriber from gensan
Hi! Thanks for the great video, will most definitely copy many ideas. I have just one question. Are you having any problems with other animals being attracted by the food? Aka mice, rats and so on? I have an extra large cage (around 160 sq feet) where I’ll probably set the coop, but the metal mesh is much larger than yours, so maybe that’s why I’ve had problems with unwanted intruders in the past. Is your coop always closed?
u can also screw big jars on the little red feeder piece!
Hi, thanks for the great instructional videos. This system is exactly what I'm looking to build. My question is, do they try to perch on top of the waterer or feeder and dirty them? Thanks again for sharing!
Terri Hammond There is not enough room on top of the watering system for them to perch and with the holes cut out of the feeder I don't think they have room there either. I have not seen them trying to perch in either place. Great question!
Great idea...however, I would have only made maybe 2" holes for them to eat out of. Chickens will try and rack the feed etc...knocking it out of the feeder and wasting it.
how you do two feed one for the dottom and top
thanks
Nice
Would 3" diameter work for bantams or would it then be too small to function properly?
very cool
Hey! Awesome idea! Have you found that the feed gets stuck in the middle at all? It doesn't seem like it is reaching both ends very well. What would be your fix for that?
Thanks, the feed doesn't really get stuck in the middle much. The chickens can reach in from the feed locations and peck at it which loosens it up enough to fall down. It has been working great and last about a week per fill with 6 chickens. Thanks for watching!!
Up North, we need to put them in the house during the winter, do you have a PVC food system for inside?
Whats the black stuff on the inside of the PVC? I only saw it when you started cutting it and not before.
I am locking very good idea
Love the Bible scripture at the end... and the coop too :)
On the same principle I made automatic feeders for my rabbits which provided grains for three days but they weren't 100% reliable and I had to check for poop contamination every day and I found out they were eating too much and got fatter than I wanted them. Also, they were spilling the seeds by digging in with front arms so I wasn't happy how it worked and decided to tive feed them daily. I'd like to know if chickens are as greedy and did you notice they are getting too fat and what is the seed consumption from this semi automatic feeder compared to recomended manual feeding?
Thanks for sharing. I will use this design. Good luck
Liked it.
Hi your feeding system is a great idea, but where the pipe come out through the wire will that not be a way in for a fox etc
This is a terrific idea and we can't wait to try it! What brand of chicken poultry watering nipples are you using? When I read reviews on Amazon, so many brands seemed to leak. Any ideas?
I made an automatic feeder AND auto Waterer with pvc using nipples rather than cups that require clean out. Mine never need cleaning.
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Hello SSL, thanks for the great videos :) Can you use the drainage pipe for water supply? Is it safe for the hens? Or do you only reccomend PVC for water supply. TIA
+Jennifer Lebron I would recommend pvc this drain pipe is harder to glue and get a good seal
+SSLFamilyDad Thank you!
Did you have a problem with rain getting in the feeder ends?
How about a 6yr review of this system? How well did it work?
I've never seen those drainage pipes for sale before. Is that something you would find at Home Depot and Menards?
I almost spent the extra money on the schedule 40 stuff until I found these - Yes they are at Home Depot, link below, thanks for watching!
www.homedepot.com/p/Advanced-Drainage-Systems-4-in-x-10-ft-Triplewall-Pipe-Solid-4550010/100135310
Awesome. I'm going to look into that, for sure. For my aquaponics stuff. (I don't have any chickens at the moment) Maybe in the future. Looks like fun. Thank you
you should move them around they need grass too. poop gets accumulated as well and they tend to eat it.
super
Do you measure out/ration the chicken food or do you just fill up the feeder when it's empty? Do chickens eat their food until gone (like a dog) or will they nibble and make it last (like a cat)? I hope to get my first chickens this year and am trying to figure it all out.
+Brent Burnette Chickens should have full access to food and water at all times, they just eat what they need to when they are hungry. We just fill this up when it gets low or sometimes empty:)
No issues with the pvc cement being toxic to the birds? This is a great idea!
nope, when it dries it cures pretty hard so no issues there
What is the music name at the end???? I like the guitar work
Did you put glue on the inside of that one pipe on the right? The outside made contact with your "T", so I wasn't sure why you would put glue on the inside if you were gluing it to the T.
We made this feeder but it seems it is not dispensing the food. Like the food does not fall after the chickens have eaten what they can reach. Advise?
That’s a month vacation there
It seems like this needs refilling more often than a gravity feeder does. That's my only complaint.
Would be easy to convert
Awesome system. Just built it and they love it. Do you feed inside the coop as well? Or just the run? I know you have water in both. Thanks for all your ideas!
Branden Visser Np Branden. I only feed then in the run except for on those snowy days when they were afraid to walk on the snow:) We then just put a dish inside for them to eat from but 95% of the time they ate outside.
SSLFamilyDad Thanks! I actually have a mini-gravity feeder inside the coop right now because they are just getting weened off the heat lamp. I find though, that they stay in the coop longer in the morning when there is food in the coop! I'm curious to see if they come out right away in the morning if they dont have their food in with them during the night! Time will tell. Also, I built your waterer. Works great! They still haven't really figured it out, but I think they are a little short yet. They are about 8 weeks old. Ps. We are near Grand Rapids, MI.
Branden Visser Awesome! Glad to hear it is working out. Ours run right out of the coop in the morning and straight to the feeder! I am sure yours will figure out that waterer soon.
SSLFamilyDad One more thing. We are getting water in our nesting box right where the hinges are. I noticed you put a piece of something up to direct water away. What did you end up using? All this rain we are getting is not helping the problem! Thanks!
Branden Visser Yes I had that issue also. I cut a 4 inch strip of an old pool tool (probably a vinyl of some sort) and used a strip of wood and some caulk to secure it in place. Hope that helps, I need to do a full final walkthrough of this coop, sorry!
It's good you only made a semi-automatic feeder and not a fully automatic :)
What are those silver strips that you used to hold the feeder up inside the coop?
Commonly called plumbers strapping. Just cheap metal strapping I had laying around, thanks for checking it out!
Have you ever had any trouble with rats or mice eating the feed? Also, is it possible for the feed to go bad because of the moisture in the air or any other weather-related causes?
I'm looking into getting chickens, so I'm a novice. Do you have any videos for newbies? Any suggestions would be great.
+C F I have a whole series on chickens and the coop. Check my channel page by clicking my name
What are your thoughts on this feeder now that you've used it for some time....any concerns of overfed chickens with having a food supply available at all times?
+John Keller feeder works perfectly. Chickens should always have access to feed, cannot over feed
+SSLFamilyDad Music name at the end?plz
how big are the slots for the chickens and how many lb's does it hold, and how days does it last.
thanx a lot, I love your videos
i made this set up and the food doesnt flow down into the bins very well, it more stays in the middle and i have to move it down into the bins with a scoop when i go out to get the eggs. its still better than filling the little feeder i have everyday but im wondering you found this was a problem for you and how/ if you made an adjustment
It works best with the crumble you get at TSC or Family Farm and Home. I have been using this setup for 5 years and it is still working great. If it gets wet inside the tube the feed will stick. Normal operation, if food is stuck in the 45 degree tube just give it a quick shake and the food falls down into the bins.
@@SSLFamilyDad im using pellets now from tsc, I'll try crumble next bag and see how it goes, thanks for your reply, keep up the good work!
@@SSLFamilyDad I'm also experiencing the feed not flowing out to the traughs quite like I hoped. I am currently feeding grower at this time and not sure if that has anything to do with it. I have a 90° angle coming out from the "T" thanks!
Absolutely love your automatic feeder idea!!! I have only 9 brown leghorns that are only 6 weeks old that will lay white eggs in couple months. they are in my garage for now until my get my chicken tractor all set up for them for auto feed and watering systems. Your link to your watering system didn't work for me. can you please check on that for me ?? or send me a new link to the correct web site??? I'd love to see how you set that up also!! My baby chicks peck at their chicken starter crumbles food until it just turns to dust! do you have that problem and if so how do you clean out the crumbles dust in their food?? Anyway...PLEASE fix the link to your watering system!!! Would love to see it!
+connie c check the channel page on UA-cam all the chicken things are there :) good luck with your new chickens!
Do you have any issues with mold in the food feeder?
+Sig Outdoors no they eat it up pretty quickly and it stays pretty dry
how you do two feed
Feeding those chickens cheap......Interested in how they do it in Papua New Guinea?
Hi, how did u secure the straps? Did u have to drill it into the coop?
rnbeatrice Just used a few wood screws to hold up the straping
No disrespect meant but without making the capped end just a pop-off type that looks like an open invitation for critters.
great video....my husband was wondering if you have this automatic feeder ..do chickens ever over eat? we are new to chickens....thanks
Jewel Dreamer Nope, they just eat what they need and stop when they stop. Chickens need access to food all the time especially for egg layers like these. Thanks for checking it out!
SSLFamilyDad Thanks so much for the info.
does the feeder area, catch water when it rains?
Do you have issues with snakes down in that feeder are