Chicken feeding station

DIY Chicken + Duck Pallet Feeding Station | Fresh Eggs Daily®

Right now I have a 5 gallon green bucket poultry feeder that was given to us, but I hate it. The chicks are spilling the food out everywhere and if I...

Learning how to grow mealworms for chickens is a fantastic way to boost the protein in your flock's diet, and it's something you can easily do at home. While

My husband built this to keep the rain off the chicken feed blogged

We made this using found objects. The cover is an old 36 inch satellite dish. The frame was build from part of an old bunk bed frame we found waiting for the garbage truck. The footers are part of a warped pressure treated 2x6 we had left from another project. I've used the chain from an old porch swing to create adjustable height hangers. It's a tight fit for both water and feeder. We've raised the water above the feeder slightly to keep feed out of the water.

Before leaving on a 10-day camping trip, I filled up the water dish for the chickens…and grumbled the entire time. I really wanted some kind of large reservoir…so the online research began! Here’s how I built an automatic chicken waterer.

I lowered the feeding station from being up on cinderblocks to bricks instead. As a result I was able to remove the borders around the station as well as the brick steps!!! So much better for the ducks!!!