Re: home automation system for chicken feeding

[Frank Olson]

"developer" <noemail@sina.com> wrote in message
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>I wish to study and eventually use automatic feeding but the DIY K74
> Parallel Port Relay Driver Kit,


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Can you adopt something similar for cats?? :-))

[Robert L Bass]

> Can you adopt something similar for cats?? :-))

No. Chickens don't like the meat and the fur gives them indigestion.

[Sylvan Butler]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 13:07:40 -0500, Robert L Bass <sales@BassBurglarAlarms.com> wrote:
>> Can you adopt something similar for cats?? :-))
>
> No. Chickens don't like the meat and the fur gives them indigestion.

Actually chickens love meat. Maybe fur (and feathers) cause
indigestion, but who can tell?

sdb

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[blueflash@comcast.net]

I made a 10-day V-shaped bin with an auger (soil drill from HD) in the
bottom, driven by an old BBQ motor. It pulls kibbles out the front,
which drop down a 2" ABS pipe into the dog's bowl. It's been running
on a sprinkler timer cuz the HA system is sometimes flaky, and wouldn't
want to starve the dog.
There's also a 16" diameter plastic disc that hold 8 day's worth of her
pills. A motor increments it one segment per day, and pills drop in an
adjacent bowl. Uses a microswitch dropping into a perimeter notch,
wired like a 3-way light switch to a relay that runs on the same timer.
Only problem is the OLD DOG sometimes misses the tiny thyroid pill.
So I use a drop of Elmers to glue it to her calcium pill (Tums).
Regards,
Don

[Frank Olson]

<blueflash@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>I made a 10-day V-shaped bin with an auger (soil drill from HD) in the
> bottom, driven by an old BBQ motor. It pulls kibbles out the front,
> which drop down a 2" ABS pipe into the dog's bowl. It's been running
> on a sprinkler timer cuz the HA system is sometimes flaky, and wouldn't
> want to starve the dog.
> There's also a 16" diameter plastic disc that hold 8 day's worth of her
> pills. A motor increments it one segment per day, and pills drop in an
> adjacent bowl. Uses a microswitch dropping into a perimeter notch,
> wired like a 3-way light switch to a relay that runs on the same timer.
> Only problem is the OLD DOG sometimes misses the tiny thyroid pill.
> So I use a drop of Elmers to glue it to her calcium pill (Tums).
> Regards,
> Don


Your kitchen must look a lot like "Doc Brown's" (Back to the Future)...
:-))

[Spanky0126]

Don't know much about chicken feeding, but I made a horse feeder using
a metal trash can to hold the feed with a rotary table that opened and
filled a 4" piece of PVC pipe that was measured to hold a scoop of
horse feed. As the rotary table continued to rotate, it closed the top
opening and opened the bottom of the PVC pipe and dumped the horse feed
down to the horse feeding trough below. It was controlled by an ELK
Magicmodule, programmable controller. The real time clock on the
Magicmodule feed the horses twice a day at 7:30 AM and 6:30 PM.

Everything worked great except in the dead of the winter, the molasses
in the feed tended to stiffen up and would not fall into the measuring
cups. Non molasses based feed would work great.

With all the parts I had about $150.00 in the Horse feeder.