Wanting to try something new I purchased a deer feeder for my chickens. It will be not used daily, but is reserved for those days that I am going to be away from our homestead when additional feed is needed. It also gives them a little entertainment when they are confined in the run.
This type of deer feeder is not legal to use for baiting deer in our county because over the past two years, Chronic Wasting Disease has appeared among the deer. CWD is a fatal neurological disease that contaminates ground and plants. The feeder distributes feed on the ground which increases the likelihood of spreading CWD. However, the following picture show the feeder that we use, which is okay to use.
However, this feeder works great for my chickens and they love it.
My new “chicken” feeder from American Hunter is programmable and will deliver feed up to 16 times a day. The rate of feed can be programmed from 1 to 30 seconds. After a little trial and error, I set the program to deliver feed every hour for 2 seconds between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm. Much more than that will empty the bucket by the end of the day. It has two options to operate the feeder: by 6 volt rechargeable battery or solar.
Have a great day! Every comment is up-voted and thanks for your up-vote, Tim and Joann
What a brilliant idea! I'm picturing the hilarity of the feeder beginning to disperse food and the chickens suddenly going berserk gobbling it up :)
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Neat idea! :D
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Genius Idea for the deer feeder. We are lucky not to have CWD in our area, yet and Lord knows we don't have to feed the deer here anything extra. They are everywhere and eat everything we've got.
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We put a radio in the garden 24/7. It keeps the deer away.
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Someone else mentioned that to me. I think I can make that happen. I need one on my front porch too. I put out 25 azaleas in April last year and they ate ALL of those too. I received two super sized, gorgeous rhododendrons as housewarming gifts and the deer ate those too. They are relentless.
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Deer are heavily hunted in our area, but we still have a good number. We only bait the deer during hunting season.
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Good idea. I never thought of using a radio!
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Interesting idea. I'm going to save this one to consider at a later time. Also, my step-son is in the process of building a coop, and we are going to give him a few hens to get started. He might want to think about this.
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That is a good idea, what does something like that cost?
BTW that is a really impressive chicken run you have built.
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The feeder was $30 from Amazon and the battery was $10.
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Thanks, the run is big then my house.
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Nice
Really like the chicken run. Good luck with the feeder the cheap one we had years ago did not last very long before it broke. It should last a while if you just use it when you need too, like you said.
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Oh cool idea! May we ask how much is it?
Just upvoted and followed! 😀👍🏻
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The feeder was $30 from Amazon and the battery was $10
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Cwd hit hard in my county so I took the year off for hunting
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A very cleaver solution Tim!
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Nice piece of kit there. Hear about CWD looks horrific, I wonder why they introduced that one! 💯🐒
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Great idea, for those times when the gals are begging for more food. I really don’t like to listen to them go on all the time. Lol. I want spaghetti , greens, bread......🐓🐓
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It seems that chickens act like they are starving to death most of the time.
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