Comments on: Automated chicken feeder

By: Christian Elsass

Christian Elsass — Sat, 30 May 2009 05:09:35 +0000

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By: Eggman

Eggman — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:38:01 +0000

I own a chicken farm and i have to sy this is very similar to whay we use to feed thousands of chickens, now we have ours loop but that doesnt make sence for you to do. If you flaten the wire it would carry more feed, think archimedes screw.

By: jared harley

jared harley — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 07:38:26 +0000

Whatever anyone says, I thought it was a great idea. Yeah, it’s not a hack, but it is using technology to make life a little easier… and who knows, perhaps reading this will inspire someone else, or make them think of something they haven’t before. Good job!

By: miked

miked — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 04:42:26 +0000

Although I won’t need anything like this in the near future, it is still cool! Robo-Feeder!!

By: baslisks

baslisks — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 03:58:47 +0000

I found this cool and interesting. I wonder if I can modify this and have it pour our breakfast ceral in the morning.

By: Groxx

Groxx — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 03:14:26 +0000

AFLAC!

By: chris

chris — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 02:19:22 +0000

i have to say that i found this hack rather funny im mean yesterday synths and today feeding the chickens. great stuff keep it comming

By: tristan

tristan — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:25:00 +0000

#1 and #2 – this is not a site that tells you the latest and greatest way to hack into your friend’s computer and steal his porn. it’s a site for various modifications and cool projects people near and far have put together. this link may be a bit strange, but it seems to me that what you’re looking for is a “h4x0r” news group.

grow up.

By: john

john — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:44:19 +0000

dude,

http://www.iloveegg.com/

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:11:07 +0000

Dude, did you say eggs?

http://www.jokefrog.com/flash/i-love-egg.shtml

By: www51

www51 — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:59:39 +0000

lol…maybe we need also “automated baby feeder”

By: kyleyankan

kyleyankan — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:50:59 +0000

If it was me – and assuming a horse can eat a 5lb bag of grain in one go (Am I overassuming?) I’d asses the current design.

It looks like the grain gets caught between the wires, and is dragged along. That means only the bottom edge is used. Hmm….

What do we do?

Get a long skinny peice of plastic/plexiglass/whatever. Make it do the width is a bit smaller than the whole. Now heat the thing up realllly hot. And twist it. Put one end in something solid, and twist the other. Voila – sweet high-capacity auger thingy. Same idea – new transporter

By: Sleighboy

Sleighboy — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:20:05 +0000

This site is supposed to be about how you can modify things to suit your needs and bonus points for reusing common items. So on that criteria, it fits on a technical level and a biological level ( feeding the chickies kitchen scraps, they produce delicious eggy-wegs ).

Stop the bitching.

By: joshua holbrook

joshua holbrook — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:09:35 +0000

I could have used this when we still had chickens, like, two years ago. :D Then I could make a bigger one for the dogs, and the goats (Mom never had horses).

By: BillytheImpaler

BillytheImpaler — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:43:17 +0000

#4 It seems that you can do essentially the same thi9ng. Upgrade the motor to something beefy, maybe 1/8th HP and upsize the parts. Get a timed switch like he did. Figure out how long it needs to run to dispense enough food for your two beasts and set that as the running interval. If no timer is available set it up so your PC in your house sends a signal over cat5e to a relay between the wall AC and teh motor.(you do have AC in teh barn, right?) Am I missing something?