A standard feeder can have 3- 4 chickens eating together at one time, but can be easily be used to feed a flock.

A standard feeder can have 3 – 4 chickens eating together at one time, but can be easily be used to feed a flock.Please contact us if you have questions about this product or if you want any other advice to find the most suitable equipment for your chickens and ducks. Capacity: a standard Grandpa’s Feeder holds 20 lbs of feed, which services approximately 6 chickens for 10 days. There is a training period that allows the birds to become accustomed to the operation of the feeder that requires no effort on the part of the chicken-keeper.

In the picture it looks like the part wraps around behind the horizontal bar but that is simply a reflection in the shiny sheet metal. While the feeder is in the covered area of the run, it has been accessible to critters who can burrow and fly into the area. To mitigate the loss of feed, we put the feeder into a covered trash can in the evening and take it out in the morning.

I quickly realized that the actual and potential costs of rodents in the feed and around the chicken coop can far exceed the cost of one of Grandpa’s Feeders. Now, let it be known that these three hens are quite bright and I have no doubt they will learn within a week or two, how to work this feeding machine. The part that shoves the door open has a fatal flaw as well, it is thin for its purpose and quite flimsy. It was so frustrating as I couldn’t place down traps to catch the rats as my chickens walk all over the floor and I couldn’t risk hurting them.

With a Grandpas everything is available to hens in more of a uniformed manner great for keeping a balanced diet.Poultry feed is expensive and even a modest amount of feed being wasted daily will soon add up over the course of a month, not to mention the associated risk of disease when rats or wild birds are involved. Sometimes had to adjust them for light birds, but even our bantams were able to figure how to open them to eat by walking along the step until it opened for them.