{"id":37992,"date":"2021-03-03T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=37992"},"modified":"2021-03-02T15:05:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T22:05:11","slug":"grandpas-feeders-automatic-chicken-feeder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/grandpas-feeders-automatic-chicken-feeder\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandpa&#8217;s Feeders Automatic Chicken Feeder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have chickens, keeping other animals out of their food can be a constant battle.<\/p>\n<p>I moved several months ago and inherited a dozen chickens from the previous owner. I didn&#8217;t really know how much a dozen chickens would eat, but their food was disappearing at an alarming rate. While I haven&#8217;t seen any, I know our area has rat problems and I was suspicious. I visited a local chicken supply store, where I bought a <a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/chicken-feeder\">treadle feeder<\/a>. For it to work, a chicken has to stand on a little platform, and a mechanism opens a door to allow access to the food. Rats aren&#8217;t heavy enough to trigger the mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>It took my chickens a few weeks to get the hang of it, but now a bag of food that previously lasted 10 days is lasting nearly three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>As a bonus, the feeder holds about 25 pounds of food, so I don&#8217;t have to worry about refilling very often.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rat-proof chicken feeder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[38,12],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37994,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37992\/revisions\/37994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}