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How To Make A Durable, Multi-Day Chicken Feeder For Only $30
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If you’re anything like me, then you probably don’t throw out a whole lot of your building scraps. But then they sit around the shed or garage and they get burned, or they rot, or they’re possibly used in some projects.
After building a new chicken coop last summer, I found a great way to use some of the smaller scrap pieces of trim.
I had purchased some three-inch PVC pipe to make a feeder, and I spent about $30 on the PVC, a T piece, and two angle pieces to make a double-sided chicken feeder. The feeder part, though, got wet in the rain, and the feed turned so mushy that the chickens would barely touch it. So after staring at a pile of small trim pieces, I decided to do something with them.
It turns out that a 1×4 piece of lumber is the same width as the outside diameter of three-inch PVC. So by simply adding four sides to a small piece of 1×4 wood, a length of PVC pipe will fit right into the box, and provide a few days of food. That is, as long as you keep it covered from the rain and snow.
Source: http://www.offthegridnews.com/how-to-2/how-to-make-a-durable-multi-day-chicken-feeder-for-only-30/
