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02/08/07, 07:54 AM
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Hmmmm...I use these for my goats and sheep. After reading what some of you have posted about using the 6 inch for cattle or horses I may make a shorter 6 inch unit for feeding my llama and alpaca. I have tried hanging buckets on the wall of the barn, but the sheep,goats, mini donkeys and mini horses jump up and knock the buckets over dumping the food onto the ground. I could mount a 6 inch unit directly to the wall and then the others wouldn't be able to dump them or get to the food. I could also mount them on the top of fence posts out of reach of the "little guys". I always get ideas from this site. Thanks guys.
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Jeff Port
Smallville Miniatures and Exotics
West Peoria, IL
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02/09/07, 11:26 AM
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Update: As of last night, they are still up and still have no berries in them. I mounted them just high enough where berries will not be a problem. I hope to finish the last details of the feeder I mentioned tomorrow.
Sweet Goats, you said in your OP that you mounted them "with the same wire stuff." I didn't take that to mean pipe strapping, which is not wire. Just miscommunication, is all. My goats are not rubbing these, just eating out of them.
Keep me posted on the 6-inch, I'm intrigued!
Oh yeah, someone said $12 to build 2 when they did it. If you buy the schedule 40 pipe, you are gonna pay $5 each just for the CAPS. I just bought 2 Sch. 40 caps for the feeder project. So I would go with the irrigation grade stuff down by the sprinklers at Lowe's. Cheaper by far. Still cost me more than $12 for the 2 mineral feeders, though...and I already had the glue!
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02/09/07, 01:26 PM
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Jim, iI used the pipe strapping also. If could be because mine are Cashmere and their fiber is starting to come off, and they rub against things to get it off. I am not at all saying don't use it, it is holding some of my feeders up just fine.
I have to say I love mine also.
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02/09/07, 02:18 PM
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Great job. Those look good. I love mine. 
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04/05/07, 11:25 AM
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Okay I've got an update on the mineral feeders I made for horses and chickens....
I love them! With a few changes.....
The horse sized one I made out of 6". So far no one has chewed it up too badly after the first few nibbles....however they did pull/rub it off the wall so to fix that problem I mounted it in a corner and I screwed a piece of 2x4 under the bottom like a support shelf as the horses pushed their noses into it hard enough to pull it out of the wall.
The chicken sized one I made out of 3' pipe but I used a reducer coupling to 2" for the "y" as they still wasted alot.
The feed is in one, grit in another. Very little waste now!
Thanks again for posting this idea Jim S.!
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They say you are what you eat. Nuts must be more common in diets than we thought.
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04/05/07, 04:11 PM
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Glad you like them, Stephanie. Mine are still up on the walls with the same pipe straps I put them up with in early February. Now that I have kids, I find they will put their front feet on the wall and eat out of them, too.
I like the chicken feeder idea. Very inventive! I keep threatening to get a few hens...DW says, "Yeah, you need another project around here!"
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04/05/07, 04:31 PM
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Well, I just added a new item to my 'to do' list. Those look great. I doubt I'll make one for the horses, especially Kali my haflinger, she'd have that off the wall in one butt rub, but the idea for the goats and the one for the chickens is great!
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04/05/07, 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by CountryHaven
Well, I just added a new item to my 'to do' list. Those look great. I doubt I'll make one for the horses, especially Kali my haflinger, she'd have that off the wall in one butt rub, but the idea for the goats and the one for the chickens is great!
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i just got done with mine for my chickens and it works great. they do knock it out some so i am trying to come up with a solution as soon as i have time.
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04/05/07, 07:43 PM
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Originally Posted by moosemaniac
The Amish guy I know is raffling one off at the April Boer event here. He's also raffling off a high percentage doe.
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Ruth, is that the Boer event in Springboro? A friend just brought us a flyer for that and we can't wait to go!
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