The folks at fowlvisions.com have figured out an effective and low budget way of building an automatic chicken feeder.

You can see more details at their fine website.

I wonder how much extra a chicken will eat under these conditions compared to the old fashioned method we use of pouring out a set amount of feed on the ground every morning?

Maybe a more accurate question should be at what point does more feed stop equaling more eggs?

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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