Roamwild PestOff Rat Proof Chicken Feeder Kit - Rat Proof & Large Bird Proof Poultry Feeder - Weather Proof - 4lts / 8lbs Capacity

excellent product does exactly what it says. No rats have been able to access, they used to climb up the duck coop walls and drop down onto the hanging feeder but they cant do with this as they fall off before the can get to the food. I was worried that it would not be suitable for ducks because the feeding area is quite small but the ducks are find with it they just take it in turns. They dont spill much at all. My only wish is that it was larger. I have three Indian Runner Ducks and this feeder feeds them for about 3 days , so I am going to have to buy another one for when we go on holiday. I hope they make a bigger version soon.

We have used this for a month now and it has got rid of the vermon problem (as far as we know!) so 10 stars for that!! The unit itself is sturdy enough. However, we had to change to pellets so it could work better, the mash we had fell out too much. It clogs up, so every couple of days you have to clean the gaps by sticking your fingers in and clearing and then every week or so, you have to empty and clean out the big clogs of wet mushy food. It has been raining a lot, so in the summer (when there is less rain, hopefully!) this shouldn’t be an issue. The chain it comes with is pretty useless if you want to hang in the coop as it is too short. We used a length of rope and it worked fine so have that ready for installation if you are hanging from a height. It hasn’t a super big container, so for 6 young hens we are having to top up pretty much every day. The feed wouldn’t last two days. Overall, it has solved the pest problem so we’re pleased with that, just wish it was a bit bigger and wouldn’t clog! And that we didn’t need to change our feed.

Fat rats were running through the hen enclosure every evening- then we replaced the treadle feeders with this. No more rats. Brilliant. They usually work out all puzzles, but this one seems to have stumped them. The hens, even the really not so bright ones, now all feed happily from this. We have one big girl and 5 pekins, and one feeder is adequate.

I had an issue with vermin, mice and rats had been having a field day with the feeder I was using as left out all night and they were eating a lot of the chick's food, it was going down very fast, so had to do something as don't like using poison around pets and Jack Russell's like a slower rat or mouse to kill, got this, the Pekin Bantams were a bit confused with the new feeder, it took a few days for them to fully figure out where the pellets were, so did put some down in a dish below it once a day and not enough to be left overnight, they caught on fairly quickly, it is also a good idea to adjust the height it is placed as I originally put it too low, once it is at the right height they see the food and go at it, not cleaned it yet as it's not dirty and the pen is covered so no rain gets to it, very easy to fill, I have five Pekin's and so far filling once a week, not seen any more evidence of vermin, so has to be much better for them, so overall very impressed, looked at other options but didn't want anything too big that took up floor space, definitely the best option for me.

Stops the rats but not the squirrels. They can get their paws into the chamber and prevent the guards coming down. Also its not spill proof, there is a lot of seed that ends up on the ground when the birds are feeding and the rats then feed off that. The bracket supplied to mount it with is not really long enough to mount it to a post as it ends up too close. On the whole it's better than putting feed on the ground, and is helping with the rat problem but it's expensive and doesn't do its job 100% so I've given it 3 stars.

This worked fine for a while...didn't take long for the small birds to land on the inner lip, which was fine, but the the magpies and crows all figured out that all they have to do is get underneath it and nudge it from underneath to get a spill bounty, the rats too, well able to just bop it and feed off the spill. I also found the pellets were susceptible to getting damp inside the hopper, clumping together so no feed could easily come through to the feeding holes for the hens, and some of the feed fermented in the damp. This was an expensive "solution", but ends up feeding more wildlife than hens unfortunately.

A product is actually as good as it says it is. It keeps pests out and the food doesn’t spill from it. It is well made and easy to install. It is well worth the money. Highly recommended.

I held off reviewing this item as I wasn't at all sure about it. It took my chickens a long time to learn to use it and I was almost despairing as I had to add a trough and feed in the trough a couple of times a day. Spilling layers pellets underneath it attracted the birds to it and once one worked it out they all got into the act. I only have three chickens at the moment so it lasts about three days and there isn't a lot of wastage. The rat-run into the chickens' enclosure has grown over as the field feeder has been taken out. I'd recommend two if you have six or more hens. it certainly lowered my feed bill.

Nach einiger Zeit im Gebrauch, kann ich wirklich nur positives Berichten. Die Hühner haben den Futterspender gut angenommen, sind mit dem Futtern etwas länger beschäftigt und entkommen so der Langeweile. Ratten werden sicher abgehalten!!! Durch den Einsatz des Futterautomaten kommen unsere Damen nun wesentlich länger mit dem Futter aus, da es keine unerwünschten Mitesser mehr gibt. Der Futterautomat hängt bei uns im Freigehege und ist wirklich auch bei starken Regen wetterbeständig. Das Futter bleibt durch den Deckel trocken!

Works great! No more rats or even little wild birds only chickens can get the food It'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

al principio todo genial : los ratones no consiguian hacerse con la comida pero 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 ..

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.

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.