I chose the dog feeder because I liked it better over those huge metal chicken feeders our feed store has for sale. With 13 hens the henhouse gets tight at night and I want to provide as much space for them to move about as possible.
And I also like that the dog feeder has a tight fitting lid and holds a lot of feed, but it's also very lightweight.
I did learn one thing and had to make a little adjustment, which was to place a box around the feeder. The girls will scratch and peck the feed out of the plastic dog feeder dish, which causes much wasted food. The box provides a place for the food to fall into, and all I have to do every couple days, is just pour whatever food is still left inside the box, back into the dog feeder. So far I am very happy with this new 'make-my-life-easier' addition.Just a picture of the coop and one of my chairs I like to sit and get into my 'Chicken Zen'.
And check out my pretty girls!
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You are SO clever. I'm dealing with tons of wasted chick starter right now because I can't seem to raise their mini feeders high enough to keep their pointy little feet out of them. :-) I've got their water on top of two bricks now, too, in my efforts to keep the water clean and poop-free.
I finally managed this morning to get to some of your earliest postings about your chicks in 2007. I had to laugh because our posts look so similar...the things we're delighting in and remarking on are the same! I just love my girls...love, love, LOVE them! :-)
I've only gotten to the part where your girls are about 3 or 4 weeks old, so I've still got a lot of reading ahead of me! :-)
Wow, you're on a roll this week with your chicken "hacks" - love the dog feeder idea!
What a great set up you have there:) You have a wonderful blog here to read. Thanks for stopping by ours. I am going to add you to my daily reads HA! It's like my morning paper with coffee:)
Good idea! Your chickens are so pretty.
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