Feeder trouble

[Anonymous]

We use a galvanised feeder with a rain hood on it but somehow the rain manages to get the pellets wet and our girls won't touch it then and we end up having to chuck quite a lot of it away 09 which adds all to the cost.

We are already ion the process of buying some barrels to convert into lib feeders but we suspect that the rain will run off the barrel down to the lib and wet the pellets, too which then block up the feeder duct, too. 05

Has anybody any ideas whatelse we could use instead as a rain cover, we don't want to end up buying expensive stuff out there but rather build something :ugeek: for our girls, so madams have dry pellets instead of mash :lol:

Any D.I.Y. ideas are welcome 17

 

[Anonymous]

We have a small wooden shelter for our chickens' feeder. Is actually the nest box off our original home-made hen house (is about 22 inches high at the front, sloping down to around 16-18 inches high at the back, 18 or so inches deep & around 4 feet wide). It stands on a palletto help keep the feeder & waterer up off the ground to try & keep any dirt out as the chickens fossick about (seems to work too) plus being on a pallet the chickens can easily reach any spilled pellets through the gaps. At the mo the Silkies have an old plastic storage box turned on it's side as a feed shelter - not brilliant as a good gust of wind has it over but it'll do until I have enough spare bits of wood to knock up a proper feed shelter for them.

 

[Sue]

You could get some external plywood and make a 3 sided shelter with a sloping roof, if you make it with a base raised off the ground as well, this will keep the area mud free. If you have a B & Q warehouse near you, where they offer free cutting of wood, they sometimes have some offcuts available really cheap (£3 or £4 each) that you could use. If you have a very exposed area where the rain would blow in from the front, you could also half cover the front so they have to walk in and around to get to the food.

 

[Chuck]

That's it ! Make a shelter or feed them inside the house.

 

[Anonymous]

i know flytesofancy do little outside shelters. they dont do anything cheap but it will be well built

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for all the ideas, we will build some from pallet wood as we live in the hils and we have rather a lot of gales up here