turkey feeder ideas????

[johnse31]

would like some ideas on building a homemade turkey feeder, and ideas will be appreciated... thank-you, john

[skeeter@ccia.com]

John, look in your local hardware store for bird feeders..the tube kind ...most are clear plastic tube with a hole next to a pan on the bottom..fill the tube with your corn and as they remove it from the pan, it fills itself again. I guess you would just keep it near the ground so tky can reach it and sprinkle some on the ground at first to help them find it...also as they peck at it, it spills onto the ground some to help feed...I take it that is the kind of feeder you are looking for...off the cob

[Okie Hog]

Glue a cap on a piece of 4" PVC pipe that is about three feet long. Glue a cleanout plug on the other end so the pipe can be filled with corn or other feed. Drill three 3/4" holes near the capped end of the pipe. Hang the pipe in a tree so that the capped end of the pipe is about 18" off the ground. Fill it with corn.

Turkeys pick the corn out of the holes in the pipe. They keep coming back.

[Pre-64]

Johnse31, Lots of folks here in Pennsylvania use old wire spools and wrap chicken wire around them. When I say wire spools I'm talking about the ones your local electric company would get their electrical lines shipped on. Hope you get the idea. They double real nice as Deer, Squirrel, Bear feeders. Heck just about any wildlife can get at the corn and feed.