If you breed chickens or quails, and several plastic bottles are littered with the house, it's time to make something useful out of them. For example, if you combine two small bottles with one large one, we get an excellent feeder with automatic feed.
In our video you can watch detailed step-by-step instructions for its creation.
For work, we need to prepare:
- 5-liter plastic bottle of square section;
- two 2-liter plastic bottles of square section;
- marker;
- centimeter;
- knife;
- scissors;
- self-tapping screw;
- a screwdriver.
Now you can get to work.
First, we start preparing the bottles. Using a knife we punch a hole in a small bottle, 2-3 cm from the bottom and cut the bottom with scissors. In the bottle, we immediately make small cuts around the entire perimeter of the cut, which will be useful to us in future work.
At the second small bottle at a distance of about 10-12 cm from the neck, pierce a hole with a knife and cut off the neck of the bottle. The cut off part can then be used for falling asleep.
Now we take a bottle with a cut off bottom, squeeze a little plastic around the neck and try to carefully insert it into a small bottle without a neck. We try to insert so that the bottles are fixed among themselves. After that, we straighten the squeezed part near the neck.
After the bottles are fixed, now in the part of the structure that has a neck we cut open the windows for birds to access food. Be sure to take into account that the slots need to be done either slightly above the neck of the second bottle or flush with it. Otherwise, the feed will spill out. After cutting the windows, the edges can be bent.
The inside of the feeder is ready.
Now take a big bottle. We apply the already assembled internal structure and mark it in length and width, so that we get a square. Moreover, the bottom line (near the bottom) should go either flush or slightly below the window on the internal structure.
We cut out only three sides of the marked square, do not touch the upper one.We bend, from the bent part we cut off half, the rest will be a visor.
Now we insert our design inside the large bottle with the notches up. The bottoms of the bottles are pulled together with a self-tapping screw. On the opposite side of a large bottle, cut out a smaller window in height.
Our feeder is ready, it remains only to fill up the feed.