![]() Also, sometimes the food gets just a little packed and doesn’t fill the wye fully. But these feeders are so easy to clean out. The only issue we have encountered is the “dust” from the feed will accumulate in the bottom. But in this feeder, pellets have worked great. We tried pellets before in the old feeder and still had the same problem. With this feeder, we are using pellet food instead of crumbles. Even in our record 7.93 inches of rain in one day last month, the feeders and the food stayed dry. We built two and put them under the “patio cover” ( see it here) we recently built on the north side of the coop. Then we used metal pipe hanging strap to secure the feeders to the outside wall of our coop. This little bit of spacing seems to make it easier to pour the feed into the opening. To install the feeder, we put a 2-by-4 against the wall behind the feeder so the top wouldn’t be right up against the wall. The 2 1/2-foot piece of pipe can be as long or as short as you like, depending on your needs and where you are installing the feeder. They fit pretty snugly and the contents are not under pressure. There’s is no real need to glue the pieces. Starting at the bottom we put it together like this: cap socket on the 3-inch piece of pipe, wye connector to the other end of the 3-inch pipe (the cap and wye connector should pretty much butt up next to each other on that 3-inch piece of pipe), the 2 1/2-foot piece of pipe goes on top of the wye, then the slip end of the threaded female adapter on top of the pipe, and finally the clean out plug screws in to the adapter.
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