mealworm dispenser

[rick]

I'm really pleased with this one! Always a bit worried that my minimal sized coop might be a bit boring all day when I'm not around. Was thinking it would be good to drop a very slow trickle of treats in the day (a bit like bugs falling from a tree canopy in the open air.)
Thought of a few devices but all were going to be laborious to make.
This is just a short length of plastic drain pipe stuck with hot melt glue to the moving ring of a cheap mains timer. I put a rough spiral in the pipe with glue also to make sure everything in the pipe moves to the front and falls out in 48 hours.
Hoping that one of them isnt standing under it all day with her beak open!

 

[Marigold]

Christmas has come early in your coop!
Lucky girls!

 

[valeriebutterley]

There will be one!

 

[chrismahon]

That's a really good idea Rick. Perhaps it would work with grain or sunflower hearts?

 

[rick]

I tested it with orange lentils over the kitchen table Chris so I think you could put anything fairly small and free flowing in there.

 

[dinosaw]

You are always full of surprises, I am tempted to run a book on what you will come up with next Rick.

Chicken roller blades 2/1
Automatic all in one egg collector scrambler and cooker 3/1
Cockerel crow muffling machine 6/1
Anti-Fox Robot with integral death death ray 10/1

 

[rick]

All worthwhile projects! The cockerel anti-phase muffler would just be too mean (and probably more expensive than the robot!)
... and he would have to wear a microphone headset... and stand on top of the speaker... Mmmm, scratch that!

 

[valeriebutterley]

I'll help you fund No. 4..........................!!!

 

[rick]

We should just get dinosaw to breed a super chicken that eats foxes.

 

[Marigold]

I'd be interested in an automatic poop collector, please Rick. Each hen would wear a collar with a Bluetooth connection to a robot which would switch on when she pooed, follow her, pick it up, and deposit it in the muck bucket.
Or even a modified version of those automatic vacuum cleaners that go round and round the room on their own, only adapted for identifying, collecting and swallowing poop coated in Aubiose.

 

[rick]

Marigold your on my wavelength! Electronic drone dung beetles that feed an anarobic digester for power...
One of these days!
(probably wouldn't be much laying going on mind)

 

[dinosaw]

We should just get dinosaw to breed a super chicken that eats foxes.

You mean something like this?

 

[dinosaw]

The whole comic strip is actually worth looking at, you can find it here
http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics243.html

 

[rick]

Yes, just like that! Fantastic