12/11/2023 0 Comments Wild duck feeder![]() ![]() Rats and wild birds are the worst at spreading disease to chickens. Commercial flocks know this and they go to great lengths to keep vermin out of their flocks. Your flock will be healthier once the vermin stop eating out of the feeder and bringing their diseases and parasites along with them. Chickens can’t get in to walk on the feed either and the covered door prevents litter from being thrown into the feeder when the hens are scratching in the litter. The feed is going to stay much cleaner without rats and wild birds walking in the feed. Having chickens doesn’t mean you have to have rats. M any customers report a 5 0% savings in feed use once they stopped rats and mice from stealing feed, even higher savings when you stop wild birds from eating your chicken feed. Some users report that it also defeats squirrels. It is going to save you a lot of money on feed costs b y keep ing the rats, mice, and wild birds from stealing your chicken feed. If you have chickens and rats then one of them has to go. But storing 37 pounds of feed takes a lot of volume.įeed Savings, Cleaner Feed, Less Disease, Less Work Feeding the Chickens These feeders are not cheap to ship, they are huge, and dimensional weight kicks in on large and lightweight packages. They do have a very solid axle with huge thick door cranks on both ends and a double concrete counterweight system that does a better job of keeping the treadle level than the single side counterweight and door crank on the medium and small feeders. They do help though if the springs are kept light. quality soft close cylinders used on the medium and small feeders. They had to be sourced from the Philippines and they are more of a quiet close than a slow close. The soft close cylinders on these feeders are NOT the same as on the small and medium feeders. It holds 37 pounds filled with chicken feed, 136 days for one bird, 54.3 pounds fully loaded total weight. The large feeder is identical to our Medium Ratproof Chicken Feeder other than being 4″ wider. ![]() Note: The large feeder was sold out in early 2022 and likely will not be back as the new design feeder holds nearly as much feed for less money.įor years I said that a large feeder wouldn’t be feasible but a way was found and several hundred were produced and are now available. You can find a way to stop the wild birds and rats from stealing your chicken feed and it pays for itself. Once you get to larger quantities we can ship 42 feeders per pallet. The shipping cost can get as low as $16.00 for a small feeder to parts of California and as low as $24.00 for a medium feeder to parts of California. Once you get past those points the larger packages begin to get more expensive per unit to ship. The medium feeder shipping costs bottoms out at four feeders per multi pack, six feeders for the small feeders. The more feeders you buy and ship the cheaper the shipping becomes, up to a point. Multi packs are simply individual feeders strapped together for shipping and boy does it save money.Ī two pack of feeders will ship for about 20% less per feeder than two feeders ordered as units and four Medium Feeders costs 46% less to ship than four individual units. Shipping on our feeders is expensive, they are bulky and get an overcharge for that reason but feeding rats and wild birds expensive chicken feed isn’t cheap either. The worst outcome in sub zero weather is that the soft close feature doesn’t work but the feeder door will continue to open. They have been tested down to 10 degrees F, past that you need to do your own testing to learn at what temperature to back the adjustment screw off till it warms up. The idea of using a cabinet door soft close cylinder came to mind and it works very well, perfect size and action, easy to find replacement cylinders almost anywhere online or in hardware stores, and it was adjustable. I had taken a feeder home with the idea that over the holiday I’d stare at the dang thing till I came up with a workable idea for a soft close feature. The noise of the door closing did make it a bit harder to train flocks but we got around that by training only when the birds were hungry and very motivated.Īnd we simply didn’t have the time until last Thanksgiving. There were around 5,000 feeders out in service already but we just got around to making a soft close version around 2016 as customers had asked for one. ![]()
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