Help me find or design a pigeon-proof chicken feeder. We have free-range chickens in the backyard. The chickens eat bugs and plants in the yard, alongside layer crumbles from their feeder. However, the neighborhood flock of pigeons takes advantage of the feeder and empties it of the food we fill it with each day. Where can we buy, or how can we create or modify a feeder so that our chickens are able to eat from it whenever needed throughout the day, but the pigeons can't get at the food?
We tried hanging our existing feeder from a wire at chicken face-level, thinking that pigeons would no longer be able to reach it, but the pigeons now cling to the rim of the feeder and flap to hold on, tilting the feeder and dumping food on the ground.
We tried hanging our existing feeder from a wire at chicken face-level, thinking that pigeons would no longer be able to reach it, but the pigeons now cling to the rim of the feeder and flap to hold on, tilting the feeder and dumping food on the ground.
