How to Make Your Own Chicken Feeding Buckets

Spring is emerging and with it will bring many brand new baby chicks for many of us, especially with Easter right around the corner. Why buy those expensive (and difficult to clean) chicken feeders when you can make your own.. FOR FREE!

Things You'll Need

  • Plastic milk jugs
  • Small rope
  • 2 x 4
  • Feed, minerals, calcium, oyster shell or anything else you may find you need to offer your flock of chickens
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Instructions

    • 1

      Collect and clean as many plastic milk jugs as you have items to offer your chickens. (one for grit, one for feed, etc)

    • 2

      Cut holes just barely bigger than the chicken's heads and just above their shoulder height along the opposite side as the milk jug handle. This way, they will be able to eat but not flick the food everywhere, keeping waste to a minimum.

    • 3

      Fill jugs with whatever ingredients you desire. I suggest one for crushed oyster shell, one for crushed cattle-block calcium, one for fine builder's sand (this will increase egg production by as much as 10%) and one for your chicken scratch grain. You can use some for water if you wish but I prefer to hang the commercial types about an inch from the ground or less to prevent dirty water/drowning.

    • 4

      Now tie the plastic milk jugs to the 2 x 4. If you bury the 2 x 4" or fasten it in some way as a pole, you can have your jugs all around it in a circle for space saving. Otherwise you can tie them lengthwise in a row. Whichever suits your needs.