After watching the chicks use the new simple to make feeder yesterday, I decided to make a couple more of them. The chicks just seemed to take to this simple design.
But I didn’t have any more four inch PVC pipe, but I thought I knew where there was a piece over by my brother’s garden, so I walked over to look for the pipe.
Armstrong Valley Farm
Here’s one of my brother’s gardens where I should be able to find a piece of pipe.
Constructed two more chicken feeders
I found the piece of pipe and was able to make a four foot and a two foot feeder. I cut the bottoms off two more gallon paint cans for the bottom dishes.
Here’s the finished feeders.
They are super easy to construct. Drill three holes and put in three sheet metal type screws setting the dish off from the bottom of the pipe about a quarter inch or so.
Here’s what it looks like from the dish top. Some people use a larger pipe size cap for the dish, ,but I like this height better, but lots of things would work for the dish.
Hanging up the feeder
I drilled two holes near the top and put some steel wire in them and hung them from another piece of steel wire that is also used to adjust the feeder height. Since I have chicks the feeders are fairly low to the ground for now. I only installed one of todays feeders in this spot.
Here’s the feeders in action, notice chicks are using all three of the feeders.
I’m still not sure how I feel about the center feeder as it was harder to build and the chicks took longer to figure out how to use it, but they are using it so I will continue to test it out.
Simpler design has some advantages
You can see the chicks do use the other type of feeder, but only two can use it at a time. The simpler feeder can have five or six chicks feeding as you can see in the back one.
More van prep
Toward evening I started putting some more stuff in my van and just in general getting it ready to go. Just a bit more to go tomorrow and it will be ready to roll on Monday.
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
