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Large Automatic Step-On Chicken Feeder 12kg | Appletons

Description

Save time, money and reduce waste with our best-selling automatic chicken feeder!

Stop feeding the sparrows, rats and mice and keep your chicken feed clean 😊

Benefits:

  • For chook keepers who keep 4 to 20 hens - however, the feeder will need to be topped up more regularly if you keep more hens. Remember an average laying hen eats app. 130 - 140g of layer pellets a day, so the consumption vs when you need to fill it up can be calculated.
  • Suitable for all standard-sized birds (brown shavers and hylines), heavy breeds and some of the larger light breeds (leghorns).
  • This brilliant step-on auto chicken feeder has a large capacity and holds approximately 12kg.
  • Hens are foragers and do best eating little and often throughout the day, so feed on demand works best.
  • Reduces hierarchy in flocks, ensuring all birds get enough feed, which results in happy hens and better egg production.
  • Vermin-proof: Keeps out rats, mice and sparrows, ensuring your poultry feed is not contaminated.
  • Keeps feed clean and helps to reduce the worm burden.
  • Ideal for busy people who are not always home early in the morning and late afternoon to feed their hens and those of us who go away for weekends.
  • Reduces feed wastage and saves money. Open feeders can lose up to 40% of feed to sparrows and other birds.
  • NZ made - supporting local NZ business
  • The unit is made from aluminium with alloy rivets, plated steel hinges, nuts and bolts so it keeps working in adverse weather.
  • Includes our very own training instructions which are clear and easy to follow. Training is very important and not to be rushed or shortened.
  • Chickens need to be POL (point of lay) 18+ weeks of age for training.

Dimensions: App. 51cm (long) x 46cm (wide) x 22cm (height)

What size is best?

The large step-on feeder or mini step-on feeder?
The large size is suitable for a larger walk-in hen house, especially if you plan to position the feeder inside the hen house or outside in the poultry run (protected from the weather) where there is plenty of space. The large step-on is twice as wide as the mini and therefore offers more hens the opportunity to feed at once (+ it also holds more food). The mini 6kg version is perfect for smaller flocks living in movable chicken coops where the footprint of the coop is small, and space is a premium. Using two mini step-on feeders in a larger flock (instead of one large one) can work well, as two feeding stations can dissipate any possible dominance over the feeder by a bossy hen/s and also help when introducing new birds.

Please note this size feeder is not suitable for bantams; we do have the Bantam Step-On Feeder for smaller-sized birds.

Our Mini Step-On Feeder is identical to our Large Step-On Feeder but only half the width - ideal if you have a smaller flock of 3 to 5 standard-sized hens and/or need to fit it in a small run/coop.

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Large Automatic Step-On Chicken Feeder 12kg | Appletons

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Save time, money and reduce waste with our best-selling automatic chicken feeder! Stop feeding the sparrows, rats and mice and... Read more

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          Description

          Save time, money and reduce waste with our best-selling automatic chicken feeder!

          Stop feeding the sparrows, rats and mice and keep your chicken feed clean 😊

          Benefits:

          • For chook keepers who keep 4 to 20 hens - however, the feeder will need to be topped up more regularly if you keep more hens. Remember an average laying hen eats app. 130 - 140g of layer pellets a day, so the consumption vs when you need to fill it up can be calculated.
          • Suitable for all standard-sized birds (brown shavers and hylines), heavy breeds and some of the larger light breeds (leghorns).
          • This brilliant step-on auto chicken feeder has a large capacity and holds approximately 12kg.
          • Hens are foragers and do best eating little and often throughout the day, so feed on demand works best.
          • Reduces hierarchy in flocks, ensuring all birds get enough feed, which results in happy hens and better egg production.
          • Vermin-proof: Keeps out rats, mice and sparrows, ensuring your poultry feed is not contaminated.
          • Keeps feed clean and helps to reduce the worm burden.
          • Ideal for busy people who are not always home early in the morning and late afternoon to feed their hens and those of us who go away for weekends.
          • Reduces feed wastage and saves money. Open feeders can lose up to 40% of feed to sparrows and other birds.
          • NZ made - supporting local NZ business
          • The unit is made from aluminium with alloy rivets, plated steel hinges, nuts and bolts so it keeps working in adverse weather.
          • Includes our very own training instructions which are clear and easy to follow. Training is very important and not to be rushed or shortened.
          • Chickens need to be POL (point of lay) 18+ weeks of age for training.

          Dimensions: App. 51cm (long) x 46cm (wide) x 22cm (height)

          What size is best?

          The large step-on feeder or mini step-on feeder?
          The large size is suitable for a larger walk-in hen house, especially if you plan to position the feeder inside the hen house or outside in the poultry run (protected from the weather) where there is plenty of space. The large step-on is twice as wide as the mini and therefore offers more hens the opportunity to feed at once (+ it also holds more food). The mini 6kg version is perfect for smaller flocks living in movable chicken coops where the footprint of the coop is small, and space is a premium. Using two mini step-on feeders in a larger flock (instead of one large one) can work well, as two feeding stations can dissipate any possible dominance over the feeder by a bossy hen/s and also help when introducing new birds.

          Please note this size feeder is not suitable for bantams; we do have the Bantam Step-On Feeder for smaller-sized birds.

          Our Mini Step-On Feeder is identical to our Large Step-On Feeder but only half the width - ideal if you have a smaller flock of 3 to 5 standard-sized hens and/or need to fit it in a small run/coop.

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          • 5 stars: 52 (96%)
          • 4 stars: 2 (4%)
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          Dianne C.

          Great that it arrived already made.
          Strong and sturdy.

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          ADELE S.
          Thank you!

          Thanks for the 11 pullets we bought from you 10 days ago. They are all healthy and they are getting used to the auto-feeder and my chook-o-matic automatic door opener. 8 out of 11 are laying.

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          Sandy T.
          Step on feeder

          This product saves your mash from being eaten by birds and rodents.
          Easy for the hens to use.

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          thorsten S.
          Just keeps going and going and going

          Bought 15 years ago and as good as new. Excellent quality will last a lifetime 👍

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          Eileen O.
          Great product.

          Does what it should. Well made. Took a couple of weeks for the chooks to get used to it. No more bird problems. Well worth it.

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          Blake P.

          Great Product, Great Team, Great Support!

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          Nicole
          Very happy chickens

          Chickens have figured it out :-). Thanks for the props they were very useful and great explanation sheet which made it an easy introduction for us all.

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          Leanne
          Great product

          So pleased to finally have a solution to stop feeding not only my hens but all the wild birds as well. The girls are a little hesitant at the moment but I’m sure by following the instructions we’ll get them used to it. Fabulous product with robust construction

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          David S.
          I love these! A great design, simple and robust.

          I now have three of these feeders replacing units that are not robust. These feeders are functional easy for the hens to use and if destroyed by other animals easy to repair and bring back to original functionality. A great design simple and robust.

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          sandra g.
          chicken and duck feeder

          you get what you pay for. I bought a cheaper one before and it can not compare to this one. I wish I had bought this one in the first place. Strongly recommend this product.

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          calvin g.

          Appletons Large Step On Feeder 12kg

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          Helen C.
          Step on feeder

          Best purchase ever and once the girls get use to them they are away laughing. I have 3 now and wouldn’t be without them.
          Just a shame the ducks have learnt how to us them as well.

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          Dale C.

          Appletons Large Step On Feeder 12kg

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          Amanda P.
          Step on ladder

          My girls are still too little to use it just yet. But I will let you know as soon as we start to use it.

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          Carol R.
          12kg step on feeder

          Great product, huge capacity

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          Anonymous
          Game changer

          So far so good. Chickens are getting use to feeder as training instructions are working. No longer feeding all the sparrows and saving on feed. Chickens are eating when they need now not just early mornings and late evenings. Regret not doing this sooner!

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          Julie D.
          Great Product

          This is perfect - it keeps the food protected from rats and little birds that get into the chook house, and the step by step instructions for training your chooks to use it are working well. Good quality item.

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          Darren K.
          Great quality!

          Great quality feeder.

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          Karen N.
          Automatic Chicken feeder

          Great feeder, the chickens are getting used to it now.
          The feeder came with easy to follow instructions and other great tips.

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          Christine P.

          Appletons Large Step On Feeder 12kg

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          Jane
          Excellent service and quality products

          Thank you for your fantastic and speedy delivery. You answered all my questions quickly and I love the helpful information sheet I got with my products super helpful.

          M
          Meredith
          Well made and good advice

          A great, sturdy feeder. Exactly what I wanted. The team at Appleton's are great too and happy to give advice.

          M
          Mary V.
          Water and feeder

          Pur chooks are really taking some training with feeder...we guess its because they are older birds!!

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          Suzanne W.
          Stepon feeder

          I love this for my chickens as I know they will never be hungry. They just help themselves when they need it. It didn't take them long to learn to stand on step to open lid.

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          Richard T.
          Large step on feeder

          Feeder working ok so far. Still early days as the chickens are still getting used to it! Good sturdy construction.

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          Keith H.
          Step on chook feeder

          yes arrived with in days good service top product hens happy no longer feeding the sparrows which were eating more
          than my girls

          keith hutchison

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          Robina S.

          Great easy purchase and speedy delivery. Thanks Appletons for another great product!

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          Carol M.
          Prompt service

          Pleased with purchase, chooks getting used to it.

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          Shirley H.
          Automatic feeder

          Excellent product. Hens caught on very quickly.

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          April B.

          Amazing product - kicking myself for not getting now sooner.

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          Debbie W.
          Awesome Step on Feeder

          Big thank you to appletons, feeder arrived faster than anticipated (even during lockdown) was expecting to have to put this together but unpacked and it was all ready to go, I was suprised, was larger than I expected--bonus ( I have 2 others 1 smaller that I paid more for & the other is crap with the pellets constantly jamming total rubbish & a waste of my money) My new appletons feeder works easily no jaming of food as it has no stupid corners to go around and is awesome value for money. I dont have to worry about my chickens going hungry thank you for such an easy reliable product & NZ made Well done.

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          Nelly d.V.
          Step On Feeder

          Only been a week but the chooks are already starting to get the hang of it. Seems like it will be an easy transition until it is fully used properly. Great investment as we have rats/mice out in the country and this will definitely help

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