RentACoop Treadle Feeder (25 LB)

Finally, I’m not feeding every critter in the neighborhood. My chickens adapted quickly using the recommended training steps, and it’s been a total success. The feed stays fresh, the large capacity means I fill it less often, and I’m saving money now that only my chickens are eating their food. Excellent quality and well worth it.

Great feeder that has helped reduce the number of rodents in our coop. Takes some time to train your chickens on how to use it, but well worth it. We have already saved money in feed costs.

I think it’s going to work well for me . I have been concerned with rodents in the coop and it seems they may be afraid of the stainless steel . I haven’t seen any trying to get in it.

These are considered the top of the line luxury of chicken feeders. No spills no waste no rodents have any reasons to hang around for free handouts. Just barely less in costs than the similar g-feeder but this is better thought out and built imo. I keep having to move it around though. I did the first training week and I think one hen tried the food but went back to the other feeders. I removed the rain cover. Nope. I removed the side blinds…. Still no interest. It’s not the feed because they’ll eat it from literally any other feeder or bowl. Then the pine pellet run bedding was sticking the treadle so it wouldn’t treadle, which was unnoticeable with week one being in the open all the time. It was moved. To a clear more open spot. Then the girls literally buried the entire feeder in chopped straw. So I took it inside cleaned it out and put it back out but I’m not as hopeful or excited about this anymore. I just wanted a cleaner run and to simplify feeding. But this is more work. My chickens free range all day unless it’s bad weather and after coop door opens for morning run time. It’s a me problem. I have a decent raised coop and walk in run but…. This baby is huge and heavy and I’m having trouble finding a space for it that doesn’t block the door or the ramp or take up too much needed run space. Tractor supply walk in chateau/ they had a huge coop but my build and run was a winter disaster for their health so prebuilt happened. I’ll give it another go in a larger run we have planned for them in spring.

Update months later: If you have really smart rats, they will figure this out. It took about 6 weeks for them to figure out that if several sit on the treadle at once, they can open the feeder. This defeated my purpose of being able to “set and forget” so I had to start putting a brick on the top at night. Well the little Einsteins have actually teamed up to move the brick off the feeder! Nuts. So they win!!! I bought two of these for my flock of ten. Mainly because I was at my wits end with the invasion of Rat City. This has decreased my rat party from 30 or so visitors a night, to 3! It was super simple to train my girls and with a small tweak for a very light bantam I have, they all eat perfectly from these treadles. Not to mention the feed I am saving on. The chickens can’t just throw out what they don’t want. Saving feed and not throwing it out for the rats. This is worth the investment all the way!!!!