![]() ![]() 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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