Prepper Tip of the Day: 5 Gallon Bucket Chicken Feeder

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[00:00:53] I had many chicken feeders in my many days keeping chickens. We've been at it for 12 years now. You know, starting with the chick feeders, the little plastic chick feeders, started moving to a larger feed system that seemed to be just constantly filled with leaves and dirt every single day. Right. Same thing with the water container.

[00:01:22] You know what we also had? We had the feeder that's hooked to the side of the chicken coop. And they jump inside of that thing and that thing would be a mess. And what really changed the game was the rainproof gravity feeder, five gallon bucket attachment. Okay. Not only did this change the game because now I can put five gallons of food out at a time and for six chickens, that's a lot.

[00:01:50] But again, rain, no problem. Right. It's a little bit where you place these fixtures on your five, you take these fixtures, you use a circle saw and you basically drill out the like three or four places in the five gallon bucket where you want the chickens to be able to feed from. I do three spots on the five gallon bucket. It's plenty. It means at least, you know, half of my chickens are eating at the same time.

[00:02:17] Um, these things are dirt cheap. They're less than 20 bucks and they change the game. And then the other thing, like we deal with all kinds of moving and shaking overnight, you know, depending on where the food is, depending, you know, I don't keep the food in the coop or even in the run anymore because animals go in not even to kill the chickens just to eat their food.

[00:02:39] So the ability to grab a five gallon bucket by the handle, right, and throw it in the shed eliminates a lot of these interactions with predators and predation that potential predation that could happen with the chickens. So these little, like I said, circle saw screw in the fixture on the back and on the front, right on any five gallon bucket.

[00:03:05] And you're a prepper. So you've got five gallon buckets. I know you do got to have a lid, right? And your feed is protected. Your feed is protected from the rain and the weather. Your feed is protected from pests and rodents if you store it in a different place overnight. And to me, it was the most effective, the most efficient way to feed chickens. I'll link to it down below if you want to get a peek at what it looks like. The kit that I used is the same kit I'm going to link to.

[00:03:35] It comes with the circle saw attachment for your power drill. And yeah, it'll take you about 15 minutes to build the most dynamic and effective chicken feeder possible. Thanks for everything, folks. I hope you enjoyed today's prepper tip of the day.