If you reside in an area where small wild birds like sparrows and doves are frequent, then you know how frustrating it can be when their presence steals your chicken feed.
To reduce these problems, you should find ways to make your chicken feeder wild bird proof. A quality wild bird proof chicken feeder can reduce waste while protecting chickens from diseases and preventing rodents from accessing food sources.
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Treadle Feeder
The Treadle Feeder (commonly referred to as a trigger ledge) is designed for free range chickens or those living in coops and designed to activate when someone steps onto it, giving access to feed. When used properly it provides instantaneous access for free range and coop chickens alike.
As the hens fill up, the lid remains upright, meaning no refilling of food needs to be done as often and protecting from rain! This keeps food dry and protected.
Avoid spillage of food into the coop during heavy rainfall! This is especially important to prevent food being wasted!
These treadle feeders are constructed of sturdy plastic. Their rounded corners minimize mold growth and have an edge designed to prevent spillage.
Gravity Feeder
Gravity feeders rely on gravity to evenly disperse their feed. Usually equipped with multiple ports at the bottom of its hopper, the more feed that enters one port will result in greater amounts leaking from it into its respective hopper.
These feeders are also relatively straightforward to set up, and come in various sizes. Many have large feed capacities so that food doesn’t need to be regularly replenished.
Gravity feeders may be just the solution you need if you’re hoping to lure deer onto your property during winter months or maintain them already present there. Plus, they provide much-needed supplements during this season when protein may not always be readily available naturally.
Deer barriers are an ideal way of controlling deer on remote properties with thick brush, as they’re easily installed without taking up too much space or needing to be maintained year-round. Plus, their durable design allows for year-round usage.
Trough Feeder
Trough feeders provide wildlife with clean, dry feed around the clock while simultaneously serving as an effective tool to trap varmints such as raccoons and opossums that threaten your food supply.
Trough feeders also provide deer with an open station during hunting season, giving older bucks who might otherwise shy away from automatic feeders a place where they can keep an eye out.
I have used these open troughs to feed deer for almost two decades, and they work remarkably well. Easy to build and containing no motors or parts which could be damaged by wildlife, they make great deer feeders!
These feeders are designed for use with various forms of feed, including pellets, ground, and liquid; as well as being suitable as waterers. With their rounded corners and edges for easier cleaning and wide base reducing tipping over risks.
Automatic Feeder
An automatic feeder is the ultimate wild bird-proof chicken feeder, complete with its own timer and pie-shaped bowl for dispensing food at specific times of day.
The Automatic Feeder can be programmed through a smartphone app and features a battery power backup option to ensure your pet will still get fed when power fails. In addition, it has an inbuilt voice recording that notifies them when its time for food!
Lock screw 9 is another essential feature, preventing pets from rotating the cover to access other parts of the feeder where there may be food compartments without supervision. This feature ensures that pets do not gain access to food unknowingly.
Automatic Feeder features an angled feeder bowl capable of accommodating more than eight food compartments with its 45 degree angular distance (this can be adjusted for a 6 or 10-bowl feeder). Once its cover has been closed, its timer module waits for a signal from position sensor 35 that the desired angular distance has been reached, before rotating the cover and opening another food compartment.
