Finding the best way to feed your chickens is a something every chicken farmer must think about. If don’t want your yard to be messy because of feeding your animals or birds, a DIY feeder might be the perfect solution! Forget about your chicken scattering food everywhere around the coop or the yard. With these DIY projects, the entire process will be totally mess-free.  What do you think?

DIY Chicken Feeder NO MESS Bulk Cheap & Easy to Do!

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How to Build A Treadle Chicken Feeder

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DIY PVC Chicken Feeder

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If don’t want your yard to be messy because of feeding your animals or birds, the DIY bucket feeder might be the perfect solution! Forget about your chicken scattering food everywhere around the coop or the yard. With this DIY project, the entire process will be totally mess-free. If you want to end up with something like the one shown here, use a medium size bucket and three 70mm PVC elbows. Alternatively, if you want a bigger size feeder, use a 20L bucket and 6 PVC elbows. As far as required tools, you will need a knife, a permanent marker and ruler, a 70mm Hole Saw, drill, rivet gun and hot glue gun. Don’t forget to bring some hot glue or silicone, a clear plastic sheet and a few rivets….This is a really simple way to feed your chickens. What do you think?

Step 1: Parts and Tools

Step 2: ​Design

Step 3: Making the Holes

Step 4: Viewing Window

Step 5: Fill it Up

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Stop the waste, so far it is working great. They still pick through and pull out the feed, but now it falls back in the feeder, and not on the ground.

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Raising chickens might be expensive for many people, not only in cost but in terms of work put into and results yielded. You have to provide shelter, clean after and feed your chickens if you want them to grow healthy. Every trick or invention that might relieve a bit from the lot of work you have to make is good news. That’s why we thought the treadle chicken feeder is a great thing you should know about and learn how to build. The structure isn’t rocket science, so you could raise one even if you’re not an engineer. And it’s also neat that the result is achieved with using 1/2 sheet of 1/2 feet plywood. You can see from the video provided that it’s very easy for chickens to use the treadle feeder. They learn to step and receive the food. Pests are no longer an issue because the food is kept safe and you can stress no more on a daily basis about supplying the chicken coop with food. Take the building plans and follow the schematics there in order to make a treadle feeder for your own chickens. Good luck!

Raising chickens is not an exclusive thing for farmers, anymore. With a lot of people deciding to have their own food home-grown, the choice for having a small chicken farm is the most cost-effective. The chicken coop is something you should take time to consider because this part will be one of the most important things you must take care in your chicken growing adventure. The other important aspect is feeding your chickens; that’s where a feeder comes in handy. One such device might cost you quite a bit if acquired from the specialized store, so you might want to opt for the DIY version. In the following project, a few PVC pipes and some PVC caps were used to build a working chicken feeder. Its capacity is 10 lbs. and will prove quite useful. Follow the detailed instructions in order to make a DIY chicken feeder out of PVC. The project will prove simple and much cheaper than other solutions. Good luck on your work!

Here’s an example of PVC Chicken Feeder featured by “Preparing Of Shft” Team.

Parts List:
1 – 4″ PVC Cap
1 – 3″ PVC Cap
1 – 2″ PVC pipe 2 foot length (only ended up needing less than 5 inches)
1 – 4″ PVC pipe 2 foot Length
1 – 4″ PVC 3-way Sanitary Tee
1 – 4″ Clean Out Plug
1 – 4″ PVC DWV Street Spigot x FIPT Female Adapter
1 – 2″ PVC DWV Hub x MIPT Male Adapter

Tools Needed:
Drill
2 – 1/8″ hole saw
PVC Cement
Hack Saw
Dremel tool or file

All instructions are in the link below…

DIY PVC Chicken Feeder – by Preparing Of Shaft

How to make 3 different Chicken Feeders with PVC

If you have a little free spot in your backyard, a chicken coop would be an option to fill that space. Raising chickens can be quite ingenious, as you will always have fresh and healthy eggs at home and you will also be having pets around the house. After you cleaned the spot, you can build your very own chicken coop, that will protect these small animals from the bad weather. This way you can make the coop the size you want, depending on the number of chickens you want to raise and you can give the coop any aspect you want. By raising chickens at home, you can also control what they eat and this can benefit your health too. Take a look at the images below, where you’ll find a selection of great chicken coop ideas and build one yourself.

1. How to Build a Simple Chicken Coop << (details)

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2. Deluxe Chicken Coop << (details)

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3. Hobbit Hole Chicken Coop << (details)

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4. DIY Backyard Chicken Coop << (details)

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5. PVC Chicken Feeder << (details)