If you decided to get hens, it is necessary to be ready to what efforts will strongly increase. For simplification of care for chickens it is necessary to think of a feeding trough beforehand. It can be got in shop or to make independently by means of make-shifts.
How to make a small chickens feeder?
If you bought baby birds recently, it is necessary to make for them very compact feeding trough. For this purpose the minimum tool kit will be required. At first prepare a small plastic bucket and make cuts on its edge by means of nippers. By the way it is necessary to make small cuts, and then to increase them. Fill compound feed in a bucket. Now cover it with a plastic plate and accurately turn. Here also the unpretentious baby birds feeder from which the forage gets enough sleep as required turned out.
When baby birds a little grow up to them the feeding trough is required a little more. For its production take a usual plastic bucket and make in it openings. The quantity of openings has to correspond to number of sections in a bowl. The section bowl for dogs which is also useful in work means. Establish a bucket over a bowl in such situation that over each section the opening was located. Then record the turned-out design by means of nuts and screws. It was necessary only to fill up in sterns and to establish a new feeding trough in the hen house.
Big feeding trough the hands
One more option of a feeding trough will be ideal if you have many chickens. For its creation prepare a plastic bowl and capacity for a forage. The canister or a tank for water can act as such capacity. So, cut off the top part of a bowl. Its height has to be such that chickens could get a forage without effort. At a canister cut off a bottom. Then cut fastening for gypsum cardboard on three parts. At you "legs" - support which should be attached to capacity on bolts will turn out. Bend them from below for ensuring the maximum stability of a design a little. Here actually and all process of production of a big feeding trough for chickens.
How to make a broilers feeder?
If you plan to get broilers, consider that feeding will need to pay special attention. This poultry has to have continuous access to food. But there is not always time to pour to chickens of sterns. You will need two plastic buckets, a pipe piece from plastic and two containers from a cooler. At first make openings in buckets. Their sizes have to be such that the bird could not get inside. Then accurately cut out a template from cardboard and apply it to bucket walls. Circle it. And cutting will require the electric fret saw. The piece of a pipe will act as the limiter of a stream of a forage. Length of a piece should not be less than 15 cm. At distance of 3 cm from edge make in it a drill three openings. Further the fret saw will require to cut segments at an angle to the basis on longer party. It was necessary only to fill tanks with a forage and water, to install the limiter, to cover all this with a bucket and to turn. The broilers feeder is ready.