Simple diy chicken feeder full#

If you have more chicks, or full grown chickens, you’ll want to use larger soda bottles to store more feed. I use regular 1L pop bottles for my older chicks. Best diy hanging chicken feeder (1 week+ to adulthood)įor bigger chicks and even adult chickens, hanging feeders are the best way to keep their food clean of poop and to keep them from flicking their food all over the place. Compost the cardboard when the chicks outgrow them. Keep reading! Paper egg carton feeders for new chicks.

Simple diy chicken feeder upgrade#

Once they get bigger, you’ll want to upgrade to diy hanging feeders… At this stage you should only have to refill the feeder about 2-3 times a day. The paper egg cartons are big enough to hold food for chicks up to one week old. This is when you rip out the egg cartons and throw them in your compost pile. They’ll also be just tall enough to poop inside the feeders. They’ll climb into the cups of the feeder. I secure the egg cartons to the sides of my brooder walls with twist ties.Īs the babies get older, they’ll start getting naughty. Elevate the feeder up to the height of your chicks’ heads so they can’t poop in their food or kick the food all over the place. My new favorite feeder for new baby chicks consists of a row of paper egg cartons. Sometimes the best solutions are the ones we create ourselves using free stuff we have around the house.

So if these things will happen no matter what, why are you wasting money on buying useless feeders? Your chickens will also inevitably find a way to drop a deuce or two in their food. No matter what, your chickens will find a way to spill their food all over the floor. They also suck at what they’re supposed to do! I hate most feeder designs because they’re yet more scraps of plastic polluting the planet. If you’ve already read my previous posts on chicken rearing, you can probably guess that I’m a fan of diy’ing over buying when possible. Share DIY feeders for your brooder that cost nothing