I Converted a Chicken Treadle Feeder into a NO WASTE Quail Feeder

In this video, I show how I converted a useless chicken treadle feeder into an excellent automatic no waste quail feeder that works like a charm!
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Self Sufficient Me is based on our small 3-acre property/homestead in SE Queensland Australia about 45kms north of Brisbane - the climate is subtropical (similar to Florida). I started Self Sufficient Me in 2011 as a blog website project where I document and write about backyard food growing, self-sufficiency, and urban farming in general. I love sharing my foodie and DIY adventures online so come along with me and let's get into it! Cheers, Mark :)

[@InvestingBookSummaries]

Just found the channel and I must say it's lovely. Putting excess money and developing self-sufficient methods like what you have in the coming years. Saves money + less reliance on others is always great relief.

[@davidcharles3986]

Hey mark after watching many of your videos I have finally made my own garden bed and planted some parsley and basil in it and it should go great! Thanks for inspiring me mark and keep up the good videos! 👍

[@jillhumphrys8073]

Be careful....its addicting...every year I say I'm not going to expand the garden, and guess what happens?

[@wascawywabbit0987]

Plant a tomato or two with the basil! Basil goes with just about everything.

[@ibtyx1]

Jill Humphrys ha to late I already started, Basils growing

[@noustrant]

Im not even have a quail, i click this video for my daily doses of dad jokes. (P.s i don't even skip your ads)

[@MrSculptedzoo]

Can’t wait to see you break the million subs! Your content is very informative, and very practical. Thanks for all your hard work.

[@Donna_G]

It makes perfect sense to me when you talk about your poultry along with your garden. Keep doing it. When you get ready to have quail for dinner, not only is it fresh; but, you can season it with fresh herbs from the garden and have vegetables on the side that also come from the garden. Seems like a win/win situation. The more you can produce at home, the less you have to purchase from the store.

[@growityourselfdelhi]

Your gardening videos are really inspiring... although I don't have as much space as you but, I started gardening myself and have created my own channel here on KZbin

[@jillhumphrys8073]

Your quail look just like my 6 week old chicks. Lol cute! Good job rigging the feeder! I love it when a plan comes together! I grew up in a farm and now live on it. I have taken so much "junk" dad kept around bc it was still good piece of this or that and made stuff for the garden and chicken run etc. I made a chick brooder out of an old consol tv/stereo/record player! I love using excess "junk" without throwing it away and saves so much money! Got lucky, I guess.

[@garyhost5655]

With everything going on here in the United States right now, your videos give me a little respite and inspire me to work on all of the projects I've been wanting to work on. Sometimes I'll just play your videos in the background because of how relaxing AND informative they are. Thanks for sharing all of your knowledge with us! Cheers, from a new subscriber.

[@deezimmo4814]

I just love that you repurposed something nearly useless. My garden is full of such items..old crock pot cooker turned into plant pot, old walker into a bean trellis, old hockey net into a bean tower....I made an old futon frame into an asparagus bed, literally...and the list goes on.

[@anniehope8651]

Came for the quail, stayed for the gardening! Your poultry videos sure are attracting people like me to your channel, so please keep it up!

[@teryshaw7370]

Your poultry videos are how I found your channel.

[@ibtyx1]

Hi I’m growing basil and they emerged today. Just wanted to say.

[@carole9211]

I bought this one and have it in my shed for the last 3 years as it was hopeless for the hen meal. Now I will do the same as you and put wood on bottom to keep it open for my quails.

[@mwat4339]

Hey Mark! You're right in that a lot of us came for the gardening videos, and I have learned so much! Thank you! But I do love your poultry videos as well, immensely! I think it's fun to learn about all the different things that I'm not used to growing up with and it's great to see that you're excited to share that all with us. Thanks again!

[@michael7423]

I love all your self sufficient content and I don’t want to miss a thing, thanks for sharing! I may not comment on every video but you always get my big thumbs up 👍, stay safe Mark and always stay awesome 😎

[@colbytheAMAZING]

Ive commented this before but i just wanted to say again thank you so much for making these videos ive been watching your channel / new channel now, since 2017 and i have nothing but a positive opinion about you. thank you for your attitude it always cheers me up at the start of the day

[@-desertpackrat]

Those quails are so freaking cute, gosh. I've only seen wild ones that live here lol they're always cute.

[@carladelagnomes]

It's great that you do poulty vids also. Otherwise, how would we learn about the possability of raising poultry?

[@surani4314]

I just grew some brinjal plants and other plants and you were my inspiration

[@SPHERNO]

I love your channel and the things you do, so informative and so inspiring

[@mikenearing1012]

Hi Mark! My partner and I love your videos. You're a big source of happiness for us during quarantine! Keep up the great work :)

[@oilin2558]

Love how you’re pumping out videos late on a Sunday night. Good on yah! Really enjoying the vids.

[@harleydavo1099]

Thanks Mark. I have quail now, thanks for your help.

[@Jorduan100]

I dont own any poultry, or plan to for the foreseeable future, but either way we could listen to you talk about anything; you really lift the spirits after a long hard day. Good work on the up-cycle! Cheers

[@saimonbautista3286]

I love and now I'm thinking about keeping quail thanks for the tips Mark!

[@normalgentleman106]

How can you not like this man ?? He is just so legit from what we see here I mean must be hard to fake being that good he seems natural

[@slavpepe6581]

I've adopted the saying "get two birds stoned at once" less violent, more humorous 🍁💨

[@slavpepe6581]

@Dfghx good for you?

[@zakman36]

I love the poultry videos! You have a great way of explaining they why behind the things you do. Many other channels do not seem to do such. I love seeing your homestead and all that goes with it! Keep em coming!

[@itsjustmetomc4848]

I actually like your videos about the chickens, quail as well as the gardening. It's all about your title "Self Sufficient Me" well, in my humble opinion, it's all inclusive. Great video and fantastic job on re-purposing that chicken feeder! Shalom Tom from Arizona

[@Riptide360]

Always appreciate your insights. Just bought the Olba Feedomatic and plan on raising it off the ground so the treadle works as a roost and any spilled feed now has the headspace for the chickens to clean under. We'll see how it goes. I'm going to use your brick on the treadle with it on the ground to train them, then remove the brick, then raise the height.

[@kcmgfarm2389]

I love both the gardening and poultry videos 🌻

[@jurgenritzhaupt5562]

Hey Mark, to make this feeder even better, you could put a 1/2" peace of plywood scrape over the boards you have now. Make indents on the bottom to accommodate the screws you have in the boards and tack it down with some finish nails. That would prevent poo and stuff from getting in any cracks or seams from the boards and make the top smoother to clean it off. :-)

[@jaredmccutcheon5496]

Great vid Mark. I love recycling stuff for my poultry too. I mostly raise chickens ( I have over 300 of them) and Sebastopol geese, but recently got a couple male quail and am waiting for a lady a town over to have a few females ready to sell me. The quail are neat little birds. I actually found your channel a few years ago because of the quail vids and discovered the gardening content because of that. I'm an avid gardener so a channel that has content about 2 of my favorite things is a great channel to me! Thanks for the great content!

[@vintagecookingbakingacat1256]

Hi Mark, hoping you talk more about wicking beds in future videos.

[@matej2268]

This guy is Mumbo Jumbo of real life he made a AFK chicken farm

[@penelo2000]

lmaoo

[@elizabethcope1502]

Hi Mark. I am late to view your quail videos. Learning a lot from you. I like your next door farmer tone. Rural people are willing to pass information if one is respectful of their knowledge. I actually subscribed for the quail. God bless.

[@Alex-wd1dk]

Good morning! We've stumbled across your videos and love them!

[@irontoad123]

luv the quail vid have 5 in a coop. wife prefers them now over chooks for the low noise. the coup travels around the yard fertilizing the soil

[@TalesoftheKootenay]

I love you Mike. You have transformed my garden and ideas going forward! Keep up the amazing work.

[@suet.r.4815]

Very clever! -Necessity really is the mother of invention. I really enjoy your gardening videos. I have enjoyed this one as well. I am considering buying one of these and following your example. Thanks and cheers from the USA.

[@pierre-alexandremueller2614]

Great video!, love watching your content and helps a lot with my garden, thanks!

[@Phlotonic]

Kudos for your creativity! Always love your insightful videos.

[@Jreichh]

Yay so glad you uploaded another quail video!

[@SparkyChannel]

I love your videos and am a huge fan. Cheers from San Diego! :)

[@heyzzus]

LOVE IT!!! I'm addicted to your videos, skills, lessons, EVERYTHING.. thank you 👋

[@Arnie1066]

Love you poultry vids as well as the gardening ones

[@scottmcley5111]

Love the shadow of the thumbs up at the beginning of the video! :)

[@fernandatrapp6173]

In love with the quail!

[@dillon7981]

I always love the poultry videos.. thank you

[@vward4871]

Amazing repurposing video! I don’t have birds, but much respect for the way you care for your birds!

[@Liwayputi]

Your videos inspire me! Hello from central Florida

[@crazygoatlady4287]

Any of your videos are very interesting. That was a pretty handy idea.

[@kiwichocaholic]

I have same feeder and put a piece of ply on top to stop food falling through. I certainly don't see so much food falling out...you have more chickens than my 4. Mine is a slightly different version to yours as doesn't have the yellow piece that you pulled out. It looks like the space where the food comes out the shoot is bigger than mine too. I love this feeder and since I switched I use less feed as the birds cannot steel it

[@ThatOneWeirdChannell]

Found this channel no more then a month ago. Reason is cause i started my first garden. I gotta say there are many many GOOD, GREAT youtubers. Your easily in the top 100 ALL TIME

[@filstewart2380]

G'day . I was gifted this exact feeder by a friend who'd given up on chickens. Like you, the beef about spillage fouling the treadle annoys me. I never thought about adapting it in any way, but I'm thinking now. Many thanks from Ireland. :)

[@ryanwhite2741]

Love your videos mark

[@raiken_au]

Your vids are great, thanks for sharing!

[@heshamalfahad3533]

I Mark could be an excellent psychiatrist His G'DAY alone raises my spirits

[@sierracharlie7293]

Good Stuff Mark.

[@lindsayrayner6261]

I'm happy for you that you have been able to modify your expensive, ineffective free chicken feeder into a satisfactory or even excellent quail feeder. What could make many DIY quail keepers happy is possibly some guidance in making a feeder rather than paying up for an expensive inefficient chicken feeder to convert. Perhaps a diagram illustrating the relative positions of the various components of the quail feeder that proved useful, for example, a scale cross-sectional sketch with some measurements would be excellent guidance, with relative height and angles of the quail standing platform, the barrier separating quail from the feed, food height and the base of the hopper above which the feed is stored. I absolutely would not be prepared to pay up for an expensive inefficient chicken feeder to convert.

[@filth4685]

love marks quail content wish they posted some more recent videos quail keeping

[@maheshvarma4803]

Do you live around Brisbane ? We recently got addicted to your videos. You are inspiration to us we started growing veggies now.

[@2percent153]

Mark. I love all your videos.

[@galaxypig8168]

That's REAL TIME PROBLEM SOLVING with Mark!

[@PaintedSkyArts]

I'm a fan because of the poultry AND gardening. 😉

[@RoseThistleArtworks]

Poultry are a definite part of a self sufficient lifestyle.

[@sarahr4471]

I love the critter videos!

[@bhsx]

I think I found your channel looking for quail info. I'm the meantime I've watched at least one video per day. Love your content!

[@brightantwerp]

Yeah, an other quail video! Because of your channel I got quail a couple of weeks ago. To be self sufficient in eggs in my small city garden. Was looking for better feeders, because they spill quite a lot. Thank you!

[@Mari-hh6it]

Loved it, I would like to see more videos about raising chickens as well. Also nice haircut Mark! =)

[@brandysiegmund4677]

I love all your videos and find them so educational. I was wondering if you could do a video on your poultry. Like do you collect eggs do you eat them etc.

[@davinajordan7335]

I like the diversity of videos, since i myself own poultry!🐥🦃🦆

[@nickhenley8040]

Keep bringing the poultry videos Mark. I like them.

[@jennymunday7913]

That was a real QUAIL-ITY fix!!!

[@kath-phlox]

The manufacturers should reward you for your improvements... Give 'em a call ;)

[@AnN-py2em]

I’m finally catching up to date with you videos 😉

[@Frank-bh3cm]

Finally, more poultry content 👍👍

[@rachelstrahan2486]

I like the; poultry, gardening, food, and all aspects of self-sufficient life videos. It's not just gardening involved to be self-sufficient.

[@austino9573]

I enjoy the poultry videos a lot!

[@lizhaydon2250]

I really like your poultry videos.

[@kamoboko86]

I was waiting for more quail videos.

[@julipolito7761]

Very good info! Thank you so much.

[@VenturesFan]

Great ingenuity! New subscriber...

[@claytonleal7947]

i love your poultry videos

[@JyjusHomeVideos]

Hi Mark, Thank you so much for your beautiful Video and demonstration 😍 I Used to have Quails in the past and stopped keeping them on a fine morning, when I realized that the feed I was giving them was not suitable for egg consumption for humans. It contained Growth Hormones and Chemicals which were added for the growth of young chickens and pullets. I was told by a reputed pet shop in Melbourne, to give Starter feed of chicken, to my Quails which was really a bad advice ! What feed are you giving your quails as I really wanted to start keeping Quails again only if I can feed them a Safe to Human feed. Thanks in advance 😊

[@edwardthomsan8588]

Hey Russell crowe.... sorry Mark, I love your videos man and i live near Gold Coast a subtropical area. having a good home grown garden and with heaps of your advice it's looking it better Thank you for your effort.

[@chicofrijoles]

I love this video - I've never seen a quail before!

[@sandyg3772]

I love the poultry videos!

[@michaelmorgan6154]

Love the poultry stuff 👍🏻

[@nevaehdoesstuff1092]

Great video!!!

[@LeoTheYuty]

Great job!

[@jecriggs]

I appreciate that you do occasional videos about poultry, and specifically chickens and quail, because that's what we raise and is of interest to us here. We do enjoy your gardening videos as well, but we don't have the space for a large garden and we don't have a long growing season.

[@CapDog47]

I personally love the poultry videos

[@BlueMonkey2008]

awesome video sir ...

[@UtopiaOliveOrchard]

Amazing guy with amazing 😉 ideas 💡

[@telecasterbear]

I love all of your videos. I would watch if you were changing the oil in your automobile. Your presence and voice keep me coming back for more.

[@magsv4786]

Thanks ill look for something like this for my Quail.

[@lamarr1986]

I use these feeders myself, I know what you mean about the spilt food, but if you raise them off the ground and use mesh under the plate, the chickens are then able to eat the dropped food, failing that you can buy (or make) an insert that stop the chickens splashing the food everywhere, this seems to minimise the wastage, and it stops rodents for sure.

[@CrystalFlames]

Wholesome quail content

[@herbveitenhans3285]

Nice! I wonder if I can convert this to a feeder for my cockatiels.