DIY automatic cattle feeder

[jdcopkid]

Thinking about trying to make an automatic cattle feeder to put out on my land lease. Think deer feeder but instead of spinning out corn, it would just be an “open” and “close”. To dump feed out for a specified time frame. Anyone have one they have built?

 

[Travlr]

Thinking about trying to make an automatic cattle feeder to put out on my land lease. Think deer feeder but instead of spinning out corn, it would just be an "open" and "close". To dump feed out for a specified time frame. Anyone have one they have built?

There was a very recent thread about someone wanting to do this. Maybe do a little search before starting a duplicate thread?

https://www.cattletoday.com/threads/diy-automatic-feeder-idea.131104/

 

[jdcopkid]

There was a very recent thread about someone wanting to do this. Maybe do a little search before starting a duplicate thread?

https://www.cattletoday.com/threads/diy-automatic-feeder-idea.131104/

Yea wasn’t much help in that thread but I’ll search some more.

 

[Boog337]

I had the same idea.. also got the same response on here so I never tried.. but I did find someone that built one that looked like what you’re looking for. I thought I found it on here. If I find it I’ll send it to you. But it was custom built feed bin with platform under timer and alarm go off and it opens to dump feed out closes right back.