Nature Lovers
Build your deer feeder as a family project and start enjoying feeding deer right in your own backyard. The plans are easy to follow and it only takes about half an hour to build this durable and inexpensive deer feeder. Have your feeder built, loaded with feed, and hung up for deer to find within an hour!
Hunters
Paint your deer feeder dark colors or camo to make it nearly invisible to humans while the deer still find the feeder. One advantage to making this PVC feeder is it costs under $10 to make versus extremely expensive commercial models. Build several for placing at different spots!
HOW TO MAKE A FEEDER
Our first attempts at feeding our local whitetail deer population was with homemade deer feeders. These deer feeders are easy to make and there is no doubt that the deer use them.
To make our homemade deer feeders we used 4” PVC pipe and some plastic containers that were about 6” high and 16” square. Different diameters of pipe could be used with the larger diameters of course able to hold more feed. The plastic containers we used were reject pieces that we had around from a local factory. A 5 gallon plastic bucket would do just as well or anything that could be cut down to a 6” or so height.
All that you need to do cut a slot in the plastic pipe about 1 to 2” wide and about 3” in height in the end of the pipe that is going to be in the container.
Fasten the pipe to one side of the container with the slotted portion towards the center.
Cut some small holes in the bottom of the container so that it will not hold water when it rains.
You can cover the top of the pipe if you would like but it is not necessary, unless you are using feed that deteriorates when it gets wet.
Stabilize your homemade deer feeder by tying or fastening it to a tree or post so that it cannot fall or be knocked over.
These homemade deer feeders worked quite well for us, but the deer emptied them in only a couple of days. They would have run us broke keeping them full. These are cheap feeders to make but could be expensive if you try to keep them full.
We have put our homemade feeder back in use to test it to see how long 50 pounds of corn will last. The first week it was out it looks like it lasted about three days so that is 50 pounds of corn in three days. I also found that the four inch pipe that is about six feet tall holds about 25 pounds of corn and the container holds another 25 pounds so you could just fill the pipe but it would not last as long. We filled it again to see if they empty it faster now that they know to look for it. We'll let you know how it goes.
The deer below were nice enough help us out. One is pointing to the homemade deer feeder while the other is pointing out the tree we have it against.
They work as good as you think,even as good as the electric feeders you buy that cast hundreds.I like any hunter who like to go cheap when it comes to deer hunting.I seen people buy these hundreds of dollar feeders and have them stolen right out of the woods,big lost of money,so i stick building mine and that way i have no money to lose.You can find most of the items laying around your house or yard.So take my advice dont lose money when you can save money.
HERE ARE SOME PICS OF SOME FEEDERS.
HANGING STICK BUCKET
JUST DRILL A HOLE 1/2 HOLE THRU BUCKET,DRIVE A SCREW THRU THE STICK INSIDE THE BUCKET,SO IT DOESNT FALL OUT.NOW FILL WITH CORN,AND PUT PEANUT BUTTER ON THE STICK AND THE DEER WILL WORK THE CORN FROM AROUND THE STICK ONTO THE GROUND FROM EATING THE PEANUT BUTTER,BE SURE TO HANG YOUR BUCKET REACH DISTANCE FOR THE DEER.
BUCKET AND PIPE FEEDER
HERE ARE SOME VIDEO LINKS YOU MAY LIKE !!
http://youtu.be/60MD-BVTe6A
http://youtu.be/1kpzmqmAuo0
http://youtu.be/9xlTwIgGAKA
http://youtu.be/WKTeA3a0yFQ
http://youtu.be/s89ShWpUiGQ
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