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Homemade deer feeders
Posted on 8/11/10 at 6:59 am
Posted on 8/11/10 at 6:59 am
I am looking for some plans or recommendations for building home made deer feeders. I found plenty on Google and was just wondering what you have done and would recommend someone else to do if they were building one. Thanks in advance for any tips and pointers.
This post was edited on 8/11/10 at 7:05 am
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Posted on 8/11/10 at 7:18 am to bbqguy
Spin feeder / gravity feeder?
What are you looking to make.
Do you have hogs or cows to deal with?
What are you looking to make.
Do you have hogs or cows to deal with?
Posted on 8/11/10 at 7:24 am to TexasTiger
bayoudude has described a good one he made a while back, he's supposed to post pictures if he gets some 
Posted on 8/11/10 at 7:40 am to bbqguy
We used to make ours out of 4" PVC with a 45* another small piece of 4" and a cap with holes drilled in it. Take a grinder/saw and make a feeding hole in the small piece of pvc. Ours were about 4' tall. We wired them to trees. They worked well and held up to the hogs pretty well.
Posted on 8/11/10 at 7:42 am to TexasTiger
I would like to make some inexpensive gravity feeders that I would use on a small parcel that I just leased to hunt. I have not seen any, but it probably does have wild hogs. There are not many places left in north Louisiana that you do not have to worry about hogs tearing your feeders up. This is a small property, less than 50 acres, that I can use my ladder stand and ground blind on. I do not want to go to a big expense this first year until I see how the hunting will be. If it has potential, next year I will build proper stands and install a good automatic feeder. I just found this recently and am just getting set up on it.
Posted on 8/11/10 at 7:44 am to bbqguy
There was a thread on here a few days ago that had a link in it on hog control. It said a 24" fence will keep hogs from getting to the feeder but deer traffic wont be affected too much.
Posted on 8/11/10 at 7:47 am to bbqguy
I still need to go get some pictures. Maybe after all this rain I will be able to get some but here is what we did.
We didn't have a hog problem but I am sure the feeders we made would work. We took a piece of 2" sch. 40 galvanized pipe and drove it into the ground and had a steel plate made to bolt to the pipe coming out the ground. On the plate we mounted a plastic 55 gallon drum with a sheet metal cone inside. Just cut some 1/2" slits and the deer lick the corn out the side. High enough that the coons aren't much of a factor and not enough lip for crows to land and eat. They hold about 200lbs of corn
About 24-30" up the pipe we drilled a hole and slide a round bar through to make a T-section. You yankee maul the pipe in the ground till this round bar touches. The base plate of the feeder has a collar welded on that slips on the pipe in the ground and you slide a bolt through to hold it in place. You just have to make sure that you cut the slits around the base of the drum small enough that the corn just doesn't pour out but trickles as you run your finger across. Also the plastic isn't sharp like metal so the deer shouldn't be able to cut their tongues on it
We didn't have a hog problem but I am sure the feeders we made would work. We took a piece of 2" sch. 40 galvanized pipe and drove it into the ground and had a steel plate made to bolt to the pipe coming out the ground. On the plate we mounted a plastic 55 gallon drum with a sheet metal cone inside. Just cut some 1/2" slits and the deer lick the corn out the side. High enough that the coons aren't much of a factor and not enough lip for crows to land and eat. They hold about 200lbs of corn
About 24-30" up the pipe we drilled a hole and slide a round bar through to make a T-section. You yankee maul the pipe in the ground till this round bar touches. The base plate of the feeder has a collar welded on that slips on the pipe in the ground and you slide a bolt through to hold it in place. You just have to make sure that you cut the slits around the base of the drum small enough that the corn just doesn't pour out but trickles as you run your finger across. Also the plastic isn't sharp like metal so the deer shouldn't be able to cut their tongues on it
Posted on 8/11/10 at 9:02 am to bbqguy
Simple and cheap!
Get a cheap plastic garbage can. cut three evenly spaced (rather large, but not too big) holes near the bottom (not undeneath, just near the bottom of the can). cut a small hole underneath the can. Next get about a 2 - 3 foot piece of rebar and bend one end at 90 degrees. Stick the rebar through the small hole underneath, this will be used to stake down the can. Now find you a place to put this awesome contraptionon, stake in in the ground, fill in with corn and seal the lid. corn will flow from the three holes near the bottom. Very simple and it works, I have been using one for years. Only down fall is you always have corn available for animals to eat.
Now if you are looking for something a little more technical....Im sorry I have nothing!
Get a cheap plastic garbage can. cut three evenly spaced (rather large, but not too big) holes near the bottom (not undeneath, just near the bottom of the can). cut a small hole underneath the can. Next get about a 2 - 3 foot piece of rebar and bend one end at 90 degrees. Stick the rebar through the small hole underneath, this will be used to stake down the can. Now find you a place to put this awesome contraptionon, stake in in the ground, fill in with corn and seal the lid. corn will flow from the three holes near the bottom. Very simple and it works, I have been using one for years. Only down fall is you always have corn available for animals to eat.
Now if you are looking for something a little more technical....Im sorry I have nothing!
Posted on 8/11/10 at 11:17 am to SinksEveryConference
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Only down fall is you always have corn available for animals to eat.
No, the other downfall is that hogs will empty the garbage can in one night and then will tear it up from the ground and roll it around trying to get the last of the corn out of it.
Posted on 8/11/10 at 11:52 am to TigerDeacon
Pics of my homemade feeders/troughs:
Posted on 8/11/10 at 12:21 pm to TigerDeacon
How do you keep protien form turing into mush in these things? how often do you have to refill them?
Posted on 8/11/10 at 12:30 pm to TigerDeacon
Thanks for the info! Everything is appreciated and will be considered. Like I said, i don't want to do anything more than see if this tract is worth developing before I sink time and money in it. I guess you could say I am trying to get by on the cheap this year.
Thanks to TigerDecon, S.E.C., B.D., and Demon for the time and pics.
Thanks to TigerDecon, S.E.C., B.D., and Demon for the time and pics.
Posted on 8/11/10 at 12:31 pm to bbqguy
i made several gravity style feeders out of 6" pvc and they work great. Just strap the pvc the a tree with enough room for the corn the flow as they eat it, cover it and you're done.
if its not flowing fast enough you can cut a mouse hole in the bottom.
if its not flowing fast enough you can cut a mouse hole in the bottom.
Posted on 8/11/10 at 12:47 pm to Bleeding purple
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How do you keep protien form turing into mush in these things?
Not a problem with the first one, second one you need to watch the weather when you put stuff out.
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how often do you have to refill them?
depends.
Posted on 8/11/10 at 12:53 pm to bbqguy
We get about a 3-4ft section of pvc, cap one end, cut a little section out of the bottom, and then attach it to a tree with wire.
It holds about 5 days worth of corn, but there is no way to stop the coons and possums from sitting at it all day and raiding it.
It holds about 5 days worth of corn, but there is no way to stop the coons and possums from sitting at it all day and raiding it.
Posted on 10/6/10 at 7:37 am to bbqguy
Finally got some pictures of our homemade feeder in use. It is just the right height for the deer but too high for the coons they just hang out a the bottom and wait for the deer to knock corn on the ground.
Posted on 10/6/10 at 7:53 am to mylsuhat
use a 4 inch piece of pvc about 3 ft tall. cut a small v notch on end. tape it to a tree notch down on the ground, put a cap on it
Posted on 10/6/10 at 7:55 am to ntztgr
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use a 4 inch piece of pvc about 3 ft tall. cut a small v notch on end. tape it to a tree notch down on the ground, put a cap on it
Posted on 10/6/10 at 7:56 am to mylsuhat
use a 4 inch piece of pvc about 3 ft tall. cut a small v notch on end. tape it to a tree notch down on the ground, put a cap on it
Posted on 10/6/10 at 7:58 am to ntztgr
That would last one night at our house. We have been going through over 100 lbs of corn per week with this one 55 gallon drum feeder.
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