Solitary chicken - need advice

[beach chick]

can anyone recommend any?

when my comes, it will sit within our electric fence without the eglu run. so I'm working on the idea of 2 free-standing galvanised metal feeders & drinkers (to allow for chooks shopping around), but am confused by what I can find. plastic ones will be too light and likely to blow away I think, but all the galvanised ones seem to be enormous! anyone got any ideas? thanks

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I've only got Omlet feeder/drinker, but here's some websites I keep in my favourites. Don't know if they'll be any use (some of the feeders look a bit serious !)

 

http://www.regencypoultry.com/shoparea.asp?p=65dfe508-155d-411b-bcaf-ff9bace951a3

 

http://www.merrydalepoultry.co.uk/accessories.htm

 

http://www.domesticfowltrust.co.uk/feeders2.html

 

http://www.farmrite.co.uk/category.ds2?c=656

[tom123]

I have one and they are great but i got mine from my poultry breeder but a website I know that does them is

 

http://www.flytesofancy.co.uk/henhouse/Poultry-Feeders-Drinkers.html

 

Tom

[Daphne]

if you use ACV in the water then galvanised containers aren't recommended - they react with the acid in the ACV. Also, we have bantams and found the galvanised containers just too enormous for their little necks. I prefer to use plastic now, although if you are in a very exposed spot/have chickens with hooligan tendencies I can see the food towers (but not the water ones) could fall over. Also if the food is in an area which gets wet then it is possible for the pellets to get wet and stuff up the entrance area that they're supposed to fall down through. We've bought ours from a local chicken supplier/feed merchant.

[beach chick]

just been looking at these sites, and doing a bit of googling, and I'm confused!

 

I want something freestanding, which wont blow over, and because it will be outside it will need a rain cover. so far so good! but they all seem to be HUGE, if I bought a 5kg feeder with a raincover could I just fill it full and then the food would be ok til all gone? or would I need to just bung in a bit every day like I do with the grubs at the moment? - in which case, would a smaller amount in a big feeder like this be ok?

 

sorry to sound so ignorant, but these things all seem so industrial and because we wont have a run with our cube there is nowhere to hook the existing feeders and drinkers on to.

 

any advice most gratefully appreciated!!

[Willow]

In addition to the eglu feeders I use a galvanised trough for treats/leftovers like the troughs half way down on the left on this page http://www.domesticfowltrust.co.uk/feeders2.html no problem with chickens getting their heads in, I tried various more shallow trays and this works the best although obviously it gets wet in rain. In summer I also use an additional plastic water container and have never had problems with it being blown away. I use small plastic water and feeders for the quails that have also been very stable.

 

The 15l top filling water container on that page looks good although a bit more expensive than the others, if I didn't already have plenty of water containers I'd be tempted to buy that.

[Lydia]

We gave up with the Omlet feeders because the ex-batts simply shovelled all the food on to the floor. We use two 2.5 kg feeders from Flytesofancy and they are great.

 

 

The roof keeps the food largely dry. Much better and so much easier to clean than the Omlet ones.

 

We have 8 chooks and have to refill the feeders every 3-4 days.

 

We still use the glugs. In our big run hubby installed a "skirting board" mainly to keep the hemcore in but it usefully doubles as a hanger for the glugs too.

[beach chick]

thanks Lydia, that looks EXACTLY what I need!! will go off to flytesofancy now.