1 Quart Jar Metal Feeder Base

Give baby chicks a feeder they can reach from the first day. Screw this galvanized base onto a jar and you have a gravity feeder: feed fills the jar and flows down to the holes as the chicks eat. The base fits a Little Giant 1-quart plastic screw-on feeder/waterer jar, Item No. 690, or a standard Mason jar you already own.

Chicks scratch at anything, and feed in a shallow pan gets kicked into the litter. A jar keeps the feed in one place and out of the bedding, and the eight feeding holes give several chicks room to eat at once. The heavy-gauge galvanized steel is built for years of service, through the brooder season and the flock after it.

Highlights

• Turns a jar you already own into a gravity feeder
• Eight feeding holes give several chicks room to eat
• Rounded, embossed edges help reduce chafing on necks and heads
• Heavy-gauge galvanized steel built for years of service
• Fits a Little Giant 1-quart jar or a standard Mason jar

Why a gravity feeder for chicks

A gravity feeder is the simple way to start chicks on feed. Open trays spill and get dirty fast, and chicks scratch feed out of them. A jar feeder holds a supply that stays together and off the litter, and it's quick to refill when the jar runs low.

Chicks eat small amounts often, so a feeder that keeps feed flowing saves you trips to the brooder. As the chicks eat, feed drops from the jar to the holes in the base, so one fill lasts longer than a loose pile on the floor.

Who it suits: anyone with a brooder of chicks, a first-time keeper setting up a flock, and anyone who wants a feeder that moves from the brooder to the coop. Galvanized steel is sturdy enough to survive the knocks a brooder gets.

At a glance

How to use it

Set up the gravity feeder in three quick steps.

1. Fill a Little Giant 1-quart plastic jar (Item No. 690, sold separately) or a standard Mason jar with chick feed.
2. Screw the base onto the jar, then turn the assembly over onto the brooder floor.
3. Refill the jar before it runs empty, and check the holes for clumped feed.

Good to know

• Set the feeder at chick height, low enough that the chicks reach the holes easily, and raise it as they grow.
• Wipe the base and jar between batches so old feed doesn't mold in the corners.
• The jar is sold separately, so buy one if you don't have a Little Giant jar on hand. A standard Mason jar works too.

About Little Giant

Little Giant is one of the brands from Miller Manufacturing Company, which started as a family business in 1941. Miller now makes more than 1,000 farm, ranch and pet products.

Set up the feeder before the chicks arrive, so feed is ready the day they come home.