![]() Keeping it off the ground will keep it clean, help less of it get wasted, and discourage rodents.)įill up the feeder from the top by sliding the plate up on the wire handle. (Optimal feeder height is around neck level for your chickens. You might want to hang the feeder to check for height, before you cut the wire. Make sure you leave enough space to make a handle. String the wire from inside the can, out through the hole in the can, up through the hole in plate (it works best if you have the plate face down on top of the #10 can), back through the other hole in plate, into the second hole in can. ![]() Hammer two holes into the plate, matching them with the holes in the can. Next, line up the plate with the top of the can. Once you get it centered and taut, twist the wires several times to hold it all in place and cut off the extra wire, if there is any. The goal is to have a bit of a space between the bottom of the can and the bottom (the flat surface) of the cake pan so that as the chickens eat the feed, more will fall from the #10 can and into the cake pan. You will want the wires to be taut and the can to hang centered over the cake pan. This will protect your chicken from getting cut.) (It’s important to end up back inside the can so that there won’t be any sharp edges where you tied the wires together. Tie it lightly in place at this point, as you might have to adjust it to get it even later. Stick the wire through the hole of the cake pan from the outside in and down around the bottom of the #10 can so that you end up where you started. Starting on the inside of the can, run a piece of wire out through a hole and over the top of the cake pan. Next, cut off four strips of wire, maybe 7-9 inches or so long. This will be where you string the wire that the feeder will hang from. On the opposite end of the can, nail an additional two holes across from each other. Repeat this just under the lip of the cake pan, making sure the holes in the can line up with the holes in the cake pan, as you’ll be stringing wire through the holes to hold it all together. I didn’t measure anything) intervals around the can so that you have 4 holes total. Next, take the nail and hammer a hole in one end of the can, about an inch from the lip. ![]() (*The inside of the can pan on my first feeder didn’t rust, just the outside did, so on this second round of feeders, I’m only going to coat the outside with paint.) Spray it and the bottom of the cake pan* with Rustolium (you can use any color you’d like, but since chickens are attracted to red, I steered clear of that color, even though it would perfectly match my coop.)
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