Chicken feeder, Living greens feeder for poultry or rabbits...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- I have finely make up a "Living Green Feeder" for the girls pen. A friend, tar Rosie, put me onto them a few years ago but I have kept putting it off.. This was a very easy build & only took me about an hour to make & install.. I think a basic one could be made from items such as upturned bread crates.. I think this design or a similar one would also be great for rabbits confined to a large hutch...
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Love your ideas. Can't wait to start mine. Thank you for sharing.
+Julie Grant
No problem Julie and hope the build goes well for you. 👍😊
Have a top one
I like the green chook feed Rob,...brilliant idea!
Thanks Mary.. Will be trying some barley greens next time to see how they go...
Have a great one..
Thanks Gardeninggirl.. They make great members of the family if you get the chance.. You have a great one too..
It's funny how you talk to your chickens. When I do it my family says your crazy. I look at them and say at least they listen.
They do make the best listeners. 😉😃
Cheers & keep on clucking Dominic. 🐔🐔
Thanks for the suggestions Antonio.. This is a Vlog channel & I just show what we are doing around the patch.. You may want to suss out some of our other clips to get a better idea of what I post.. Not really interested in becoming a celebrity on YT but shall keep your suggestions in mind if I ever change it..
Thanks again & have a great one..
Cheers,
Rob.
What a brilliant idea! Thank you so much for this idea
Glad it's helped you some Caroline.👍
They are easy enough to build & the girls will love the greens Benjamin..
Cheers sir & have fun with the build :)
A friend told me about this idea... They saw one in operation at an aquaponic shop of all places :)
Thanks & have a great one :)
Your girls are living the great life under that mango tree. I think I would have mango face too if I lived there. Thanks for sharing that great idea!
What a splendid idea!
They are such great creatures I think.. We had one that used to ride around on my shoulder whenever she got the chance.. She must of liked me as I never had to clean off my shirt ;)
Think they will love you for it Mick..
What a good idea, thank you 😃 👍
Hope it helped with your girls.🐔🐔
Cheers.
"Living feeder" This is pure genius!
Rob Bob
Cheers Jim... You going to make one up ?
I don't have chickens or rabbits yet, maybe one day, but I have a friend that will be all over this!
Thanks Jim S ..
Cheers mate :)
What a bloody brilliant idea, I love it :)
Just passing on what others have shared with us :)
Thanks Katina & all the best for 2014,
Rob...
Excellent ole chap.
Thanks for the show.
@Rob Bob, Thanks so much for this vid, its a great idea, I love it!
No problem... Hope the birds love it too..
Cheers :)
This is an incredible idea and such a simple design. Thanks for sharing it!
No problem Morgan. Hope it gave you a few ideas for your own build.,
Cheers & have a top one.
Glad you like the idea... Up turned bead crates would work just as well I think...
Have fun with the build....
Cheers
I love your post- thank you. So nice to see how others do things and make life better for our fellow creatures.
+webbsway
Thanks again :)
Cheers.
I need this!! Thanks so much! I will build mine today!
The Chooks 🐔🐔 will love you for it Taunya. 👍👍
Hope the build goes smoothly.
I'm still saying WOW,! How cool is that...! You knocked out of the park with such an ingenious creation... , ! It's a Win Win Winner
Thanks a Bunch from me and our Chickens
Hi there & thanks :-)
Hope you have fun with the build & the girls like it as much as ours do.. It's coming back into our wet season here so will be setting it up again soon..
Cheers & all the best,
Rob..
I'm with you on this one. Whenever someone mentions feeding chickens I think of this video and tell them about it. I just shared it on another channel again today. Simple, inexpensive and can save a lot in feeding costs, especially if you use a perennial. Why wouldn't anyone do this?
Jim S Thanks for that Jim.. :-)
Hi, I tried a similar garden and found that the chooks are it to the wire so it never had a chance to grow higher... now I cover it up til it grows higher.
Thanks,
Have a great one..
Rob..
I like how you refer to your chickens so sweetly calling them "love" and such. That's how I chat up my 5 chickens as well. I always say "good night ladies" to them when I close up their chicken hut at night.
It is a really simple idea...
A friend saw one in action & put me onto it..
Have a great one..
I love this idea!!! I've given my girls a lot of space for their run but they've cleared it out and left nothing but sand. With this idea, I can maintain a good size of green for them and not have to water the whole yard. Thanks for sharing.
No problem Gil & hope your flock enjoys it as much as ours did.
Cheers.
Wow! What a great idea. I love it.
Brilliant....simply brilliant !
Hi there.. The wheat plants don't dry out al all & just keep growing.. It is a good idea to give the plants a bit of water every few days just to keep them happy.. We still feed them sprouted grain & just remembered that I should be feeding them another batch today.. Thanks for the reminder..
Cheers & have a great one..
Rob.
The chooks love it... We just opened up the cage so they could clean it out & the next lot of seed can go in :)
That is a great idea, thanks for showing us !
No problem, hope it comes in handy..
Cheers,
Rob..
We are in South East Queensland in Australia..
Cheers Roger..
No real waste here at all... They eat the shots as they come through & I lift the cage when I think the greens are looking a bit manky so they can finish them off.. Is funny to watch them "fly" in there when it comes up :D
Cheers..
Rob..
Thanks..
Have a great one..
I get some great ideas for my chickens from watching your videos, thank you!
+Petals on the Paving Slabs
Glad they've helped you out some 😊
Have a great one.
That is one engenius idea. Thanks for the video.
This is a really clever way of using simple materials to automate a daily task! great idea good sir!
Cheers mate. 👍
Finally got my own chooks after many years of watching your channel and just wanted to say I'm very excited to try this design!
That's great to hear ANM. 👍 Will be knocking one together for our new girls here eventually.
Cheers & happy farming.
Very good idea. My chickens are allowed to free range several days a week, but i can see the advantage of your feeder. I will have to give it a go!
Thanks for sharing.
I was just about to build one of these for my static coup. The all wire mesh concept is the best idea. Thx for posting.
No problem Bart. Hope the build went well mate.
Cheers. 👍
Very clever! I'm so gad you shared this. Thanks!
Rob, that is excellent idea. I will be trying this. Thanks again my dear!!
No problem & hope it works wel for you :)
Cheers,
Rob..
They will love you for it methinks :)
Great to read that Robert.. Am glad that the clips have helped you out & you had a crack at making them yourself :)
Cheers mate & take it easy, Rob..
That's a great idea. I'm planning to get a few chickens soon. I may just set this up as I build the pen. Thanks for sharing. God bless.
Thank you for sharing your ingenious idea with us! I love it! Cheers and love from Southern California, USA
No problem at all with the wire at all so far.. All looks to be good.. Only thing I will be changing is the height of the feeder.. Thinking of lowering it 50mm/2" as I think it is a bit too high...
Cheers..
Rob
Great idea - ill be building one of those for my static chicken run!
This is on the todo list....towards the top. Love it. Thanks Rob.
FarmVille generation is going LIVE! Nice job!
Cheers... I prefer to eat my harvests ;-)
Have a great one..
Rob
They are really easy to make up.. Keep meaning to add some smaller ones but haven't gotten around to it yet :)
Thanks :)
Great idea and great looking chics!
Thankyou i will always remember this. My pen will be stationary so i wondered how to keep greens.
Hope it works well for you if you build one 👍Will be adding another into the new pen I'll be building soon.
have a great one.
Thanks Rob, got mine up and running & has come through & the girls love. great idea. Thanks again
+Anthony Lovell
That's great to hear Anthony. 👍😊
Cheers mate.
Good idea we have similar made of pallets. If you turn it the other way round, and make it bigger you could set up a chicken tractor and put them in it and move them across any lawn/grass you have. It looks from your set up as if you have a lot of predators around your coop. I have all ours free-ranging but they have to have constantly enough greenery otherwise they will start on the plants. I also have bantams with small feet so they do less damage and a lot of pest control. All the best, Sue
Great question & something I gave a bit of thought to.. The idea behind the extra hight was that if it were taller it would allow the plants to gain a better foothold with their roots so that they couldn't be pulled out as easily.. I thought this would allow the plants to be replaced less often.. The next one I build will be a bit lower & am also thinking of making one out of an old bird cage we have as well..
Worth a try just to see how they go probably.. Wheat grew in the pen during a very wet & boggy first few months of the year here..
There is a clip called "Black Solider fly larvae farm.. (Hermetia illucens)" that I posted a while back... The farm got flooded out during some really wet weather here recently so it needs to be set up again.. I shall be setting it back up as soon as the current weather clears.. I have some compost full of larvae I can use to give it a head start..
Hope that helps & have a good one..
The day I start to understand them will be the day I start to really worry though :)
They love them.. I have tossed in bits of timber crawling with termites & the chickens go crazy over them.. Not too good at hunting them out of the timber though..
Cheers, Rob.
Great idea - appreciate your effort - thanks - Steve A
Hope it gives you a few ideas Steve.. Cheers mate :)
That is a great idea. I have thought about using some sort of fodder system, but I like this idea, too.
I'll be making another similar to this when we build our next chook house., 👍 👍
Cheers.
Hi there..
Just a house block just under 700m² so not a great deal of room..
We are in south east Queensland in a subtropical climate.. We are very lucky as we can grow 12 months a year..
Thanks & have a great one :)
Is a great way to get greens into them..
.
Wow brilliant idea. Thanks for sharing
Jose Burgos No problem Jose & hope it works well for you if you build one.
Cheers,
Rob.
Great job I will have to copy it as soon as we move, next month
I think they will love it Taleulah.. Ours have really taken to it at the moment..
Outstanding!!! Thanks for the idea, think I'll use it. Rick
Hope it works well for you Rick..
Cheers mate..
Love the idea, will try it out as ours have eaten all our lawn.....
Glad you liked it :)
Cheers Rob Rob - great vid.
You are my hero! Keep up the good job mate
Cheers Darren..
:)
What a great idea, I'm giving this a go tomorrow it looks fab. Been soaking wheat since this morning. Thanks for this idea. :)
No problem Emanuela.. I know the chooks will love the sprouts ;)
Rob..
Thanks from the States. I enjoy your videos and the info I've gotten from your experiences. Our chickens are doing well....thanks again.
Am glad they've helped some mate. 👍👍
Cheers & all the best.
Ha ha ha ha... I have a list like that...
Should be out there now working on it right now :D
Love it wonderful idea thank you for sharing !!
Rob,
A year on and I remember that this was the first video that I found on TH-cam of yours that I found . WOW. Ive since watched all of you videos. You might think that your just mildly uploading and hoping to be seen, but your one of my favorites in my education for getting back to nature and self reliance. Please keep on the Good fight!
Hi Ron & thanks for that... Think I needed a lift today & you gave it to me ;)
I started out posting clips for relatives down south & for some friends on a frugal living website & it went crazy from there.. I would be happy if just 10 folks saw the clips if they helped them out in some way..
Cheers mate & thanks again..
All the best & have a great one,
Rob..
I love your videos it makes me want to buy a bigger block of land. Thanks heaps.
Hi Sema & thanks.. We are on about 650m² here & think we could fit a bit more in.. Am looking at setting up more of a perennial food garden in the coming years..
Cheers & all the best..
What a GREAT idea for chooks that can't free range for one reason or another. I tried the "chicken tractor" bit, but as an older grandma, I can't always handle the moving to a new grassy area. I am going to incorporate this into my run as soon as I can. And then I won't have to beg my neighbors for their grass clippings or what ever I can cut from the side of the highway.
+Denise Keith Does make it easier to feed the girls some greens Denise. I left the cage down long after the wheat died off last time & a load of weeds popped up. When I lifted the cage the girls went nuts on them.
Cheers & all the best .
This is a great idea for chickens that can't forage for greens otherwise. But there are so many advantages to a portable chicken pen (its really only a 'tractor' when used to till between garden rows). Anyway... it spreads the manure, helps keep grass and weeds, etc 'mown', and chickens are not constantly walking around in or pecking through their own waste, along with whatever kitchen waste and/or spilled grain, etc ends up in their pens.
Ease of moving a portable chicken pen is important! Some use an old handtruck under one end. Many are designed & built with wheels on one or both ends. Hopefully you will be able to find one that fits your needs and is easy to move - or modify the one you have.
If not, this idea is great for the immobile coop where the birds cannot be allowed to free-range in the day, isn't it?!
I like this! I will set up something like this tomorrow, great idea!
+Love Ritter Hope the build went well for you 👍 What did you sow it out with ?
Cheers,
Rob.
Rob Bob, I love all your vids man, been learnin' quite a bit from your AP how-to's, but I can tell you all 24 of my girls are gonna love you for this! I've had to pen them back up since I planted the garden beds, they don't get free roam of the back acre anymore and they miss the grass and bugs! Gonna use some extra fencing I have to make a couple of these, maybe 8 or so feet long each. Thanks!
Did you end up knocking a feeder together for the Girls No One?
Cheers & happy growing.
Super cool idea!
Cheers Michael.. :)
Love it!! Going to do this in a section of my rabbit colony!
My 8 ladies will love this. I had plan to do a fodder type method but now space indoors and it gets way to hot here in sw usa. For it to outside. This will work and keep them much cooler also. T.y.
Great question. If you look at battery hens they live in worse conditions with loads of faecal mater in their cage & flying around the shed in the form of dust. They live in far more contaminated conditions that back yard chooks & re said to be "healthy" so I really don't worry about that sort of thing with ours.
Have never read any information where it is suggested that any contamination could be past through their digestive system, into the eggs or flesh & then to us.
Hope that helps,
Rob :)
GREAT idea!!!! Thank you!
+cm b
No problem & hope it gave you a few ideas you can use yourself.
Cheers.
+RobBobs Backyard Farming Hey Rob from Kansas City, MO, USA Have Muscovy ducks and had been considering chickens. Love implementing this idea in order to keep them out of the garden!
+cm b
Our girls demolished a few beds a couple of times before this went in. About to sow it out again to give the 2 remaining girls some greens.
Good to know Rob! I will follow your specs then. I can't tell you how much I have learned from your videos - thanks so much!
+cm b
That's great to hear & thanks for taking the time to let me know.
Cheers & have a great one cm b.
Rob.
awesome design and tips...
greens and soldier fly larva for the win!
Rosietea saw one in action at the Backyard Aquaponics store in Perth Bobby & that's where I got the idea from..
Not for everyone but as we don't free range I think this makes up for it a bit..
Have a great one :)
Hardly hear ours here except for the cackles of joy after relieving themselves of an egg :D
Hope you get the chance to keep some JT..
Cheers Sir..
I love this! great idea!
Hi there..
We have just under 700m²/765yard².. Not a big plot but think we could squeeze a lot more on there if we tried..
Thanks & hope you have a great one..
Rob :)
Fabulous!
brilliant idea, might try this with a rabbit run.
Great idea and design!!
+cvolpone
Cheers cvolpone.
Have a great one.
Nice setup for the chooks, look forward to having some of my own.
Excellent idea!
Cheers DreamSeeker.. Hope it gives you a few ideas..
:-)
A very nice idea!
We will be revisiting this idea on the new farm I think.
i really love this idea. i have seen similar idea in retirement village. only difference is that they had it for the whole floor. i thought it looked uncomfortable to the chickens and cruel. Great job !!