Roamwild Rat Proof Chicken Feeder kit - Rat Proof Poultry Feeder – Weather Proof - 8lbs Capacity - NEW PRODUCT

I have a small, 6' x 6', walk in chicken coop and 5 old hens. I had a small a rat problem and only in the chicken coop until the old, many years abandoned, packing plant across the road was demolished. Suddenly it was as if a giant wave of rats just slammed into my property. I was finding rats everywhere! I could not step outside without seeing rats in any given direction! They were brazen. Fearless! My feral cats and my dog, all very good at ratting, were working themselves exhausted. They no longer brought me prizes neat upon the porch and took to just leaving the bodies where they killed them and went on to the next. (The dog's poo picker did double duty as well, cleaning all that up every day!) I had bucket traps, wood spring traps and live critter traps baited with peanut butter- all working around the clock, filling nearly as fast as I could dump and add more bait and I've even stomped a few that have been running along close enough to my feet! The two owls that I'd rarely ever seen before were making a nightly show... I'd go out for bedtime rounds to check on the sheep and see the feathered ghosts swoop silently from the darkness and BAM! Off would go another screeching rat into the night sky. ((AWESOME!)) I was never much of a hater before... but I can tell you this... now... I HATE rats!!! They chewed wires and walls and insulation in the barn and even the hoses and belts on my truck. They made holes in the back seat of the car and pulled the stuffing out. How did they even get in there??? They chewed bags of stove pellets open (near the top of the ton, of course) and spilled several pounds pellet fuel all over the place to waste. I was living my own B horror movie.All of my grains and critter feeds and of course the garbage were already kept sealed up in rat proof cans and drums, but the chicken coop was where I suffered the most, due to the use of the traditional, open chicken feeder. Over the last few years of killing them off any way possible, the tsunami of rat population has trickled down around the farm to this one continuous problem spot and there they have lived and thrived despite all of our efforts.I have tried to rat proof the coop but the insatiable rodent demons have chewed their way through wood, wire, and even gnawed a small doorway through the edge of a cinder block to get in! Downright scary! I was contemplating the step on, pressure plate chicken feeder but after sniping a couple really big, heavy rats with my bb gun, I figured they would be heavy enough to open it and help themselves all night long. If each one of my hens wasn't more of a pet than "just livestock", I probably would have given up on keeping chickens at all because the stress of having rats all over and in my chicken coop was taking its toll on my nerves.When I ran across this PestOff feeder, I barely dared to hope. I read it up, watched the videos a couple of times, and contemplated it oh... maybe 20 seconds before adding it to the cart and purchasing it. Was it a little spendy? Yeah! Was it a risk? Of course! But if it worked I wouldn't have disgusting, filthy, rats peeing and pooping in my chicken feeder and eating countless lbs of feed every week, breeding in the walls and floor boards and making huge, healthy, hungry offspring to keep the wheel of madness spinning.As soon as it arrived, I looked it over, read the directions, put it together, contemplating the plastic bits and springs, then headed out to the coop and promptly put it to use. I hung it a little above shoulder height. I like that the top just slides up the handle and is so easy to fill then cover again.The girls had no transition issues. The next morning I went out to feed before work expecting for the feeder to be completely empty, like the old one always was, and found the feeder had over half the feed still! Instead of twice a day I now am feeding once in the morning and there's always left overs in the evening when I get home and check on everyone. I had worried it was hanging too low and the big rats might be able to sit on their back legs and reach up to it but apparently not, according to how much feed I'm saving now! I worried that the little bits of feed that came out when the chickens are chowing down would be an issue, but the less dominant hens just pick those dropped bits right up while they wait for the big bossies to finish eating then they take turns eating and cleaning up for each other. They no longer come running at me when I get home like they are SO happy to see me, which I kind of emotionally miss but am happy about because it means they are well fed not hanging on my arrival for their dinner and rats didn't eat up all their breakfast and lunch. I'm using about 1/3 the feed I was going through before.I've had this now for 3 weeks to the day. I was going to wait longer to review but I feel the item has proven itself well enough in this time frame. I can always edit if things go south. :) I am absolutely happy with this feeder and its performance and only hope that it continues to function and keep the rodent scourge from getting another single mouthful.My only concern with it is the durability of the plastic bits and springs, tho mine is located inside the coop and out of the weather so I probably don't have much to worry about as far as UV and extreme temperatures degrading the plastic and corroding the metal bits. I like the design and the shape and user friendliness so far. A coop is a dusty place so I hope the springs and doors continue to work as time goes on but it seems like it would be easy to disassemble and clean. I haven't seen a rat in the coop since the night I hung it up. That alone was worth the price. All in all, this is one of- if not THE best- farm investment I've made all year. Pennies, when you think about it in the long run, for a much more sanitary, healthy way to feed your fowl and NOT the rats.*** ADDITION 2/22/18***So I've been using this a while with both crumble and pellets and I have to say I like using the pellet chicken feed in here much better. The crumble always seems to cake up on the inside around the feed door. The mechanism still worked with the crumble, but the Nutrena pellets just seem to keep things more tidy in the works and the girls seem happier with the little pellets.

After discovering a rodent issue in my chicken coop, I shored up base of coop with wire, and added this rodent-proof feeder. Hens had no trouble using this new feeder. No more rodents in my hen house!!

I had high hopes for this feeder and really like the design. It is quite sturdy and is definitely rat proof, though the squirrels have figured out how to get into it from above. However, my chickens rarely eat from it. They have found the feed in it but just aren't using it. Maybe I have made them too spoiled and lazy!?

We wanted this for our ducks particularly. I wish the hole was a bit larger to accommodate ducks.

I got tired of going out every day to fill the bird feeders so I looked on here for something large capacity. I gave this maybe a 50/50 chance of working as a bird feeder but I was desperate! It looked huge when I unboxed it and had my doubts but filled it with ss and hung it from the same baffle as the previous feeder. I watched for a while and some of the birds weren't sure about it but a couple of chickadees didn't skip a beat. Once they got used to it, it was so much easier for them to eat from. I have squirrels but they can't get past the baffle and the door would close if they did. It's been a month and is going smoothly, the seeds aren't falling out either. I have chickadees, finches, tufted titmice, sometimes sparrows, as long as they're not heavy enough to close the door it works well, better than anything at Lowe's, Walmart etc. I did tape a little piece of bamboo skewer to the top of the perch for their tiny feet, a couple inches of a disposable chopstick would work too.

Not useful. Chickens don't like eating at head hight, they have to cock their head sideways to eat because the opening is too narrow and they spill so much feed on the ground that you will still have rodent issues. Get the the feeder at ratprooffeeder.net or whatever it is. Way better.

Seems like a good product in general but there is a big design problem. The feeder door that closes shut when other animals hang on it gets stuck and stays close. This means that the chickens don't have any food until we discover the problem. Very big problem. I thoroughly cleaned it and tried again and it broke again in just a couple days.I've seen other reviews report the same thing as me, with higher stars - but as this is a feeder, I can't see how it should rate highly if it isn't feeding!

Es hat funktioniert. Die Hühner haben sofort gelernt aus der Öffnung zu fressen. Sie verbrauchen viel weniger Futter.

Great product

al principio todo genial : los ratones no consiguian hacerse con la comidapero al cabo de un tiempo , las 2 trampillas empezaron a bloquearse por los proprios trozo de granos que se ponen en las guias verticales , y molestan el recorrido de dichas trampillas, hasta que el muelle no consigue luchar => se quedan en posicion baja , es decir sin acceso a la comida , ni para los ratones, ni para las gallinas !estuve a punto de perderlas durante las vacaciones de verano ..le puse lubricante tipo teflon , pero tampoco : ahora tengo que desbloquearlas cada semana.Total , una buena idea , pero no hicieron pruebas largas ..

Works great! No more rats or even little wild birds only chickens can get the foodIt's Nov 2021 and I think the little springs are worn out wish I could get replacement parts now if a rat comes the chickens are locked out so I need to buy a new one?June 2023. no matter how much I clean it the door sticks in the closed positionthe little springs just don't seem to want to pull it back up anymore so I manually put them up in the morning check on them throughout the day and then make sure they're closed at night I've also added a secondary feeder so the chickens can have access to food during the day the product seemed so great but it's got that little flaw

Je cherchais un système afin que les pigeons ( et il y en a beaucoup où j'habite ) ne piquent plus toutes les graines données à mes poules. Après bien des tentatives dans mes essais, cette mangeoire suspendue à hauteur de bec de mes gallinacés , donc trop haute pour les pigeons , semble parfaite. Mes poules s'y sont vite habituées ; mon astuce , une friandise genre morceau de fromage qu'elles adorent posé à l'entrée de la mangeoire.