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Hey if it works and you have healthy birds that's what counts . Can you use it in cold weather ? I built a pvc pipe free feeder and waters for my birds and water was my enemy.
That's a lot of chickens, those barrels look like they work pretty well.View attachment 155738
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I have 55 gallon bins for water and for food. Lids on both the yellow food bin holds 350 pounds of pellets, No waste there. The water of course is 55 a gallon blue barrel and I keep a pond heater in it in the winter so it doesn't freeze. I have to fill the food about every 7 days and the water about one extra time in the week. It all works great and saves on allot of work.
They would probably eat a lot less of it. And after the initial three day period to get it fermented it's not a big deal. But yes you would have to scoop it out every day.My chickens eat 50 pounds of pellets a day. I can't imagine making anything in a volume for them everyday to substituted all that food. I would become a slave to the making and delivering it. But I am going to look into it farther.