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I don't personally like these feeders for poults in release pens as the birds tend to scratch quite a bit of food out of them and in wet weather they tread on it and defacate on it which becomes a horrible mess with greater risks of disease spreading. If you able get some of your hoppers to your poult suppliers and have them put into the rearing pens for a week before getting your birds and put them straight onto hoppers. If your rearing your own it's just the same, get them onto hoppers before release.

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Yep I use a mix of the two, some 45 gallon hoppers and some buckets, the 45's always have food in, the buckets I always allow to run out before refilling.

Some birds will change to 45's easy and others will take some time, so doing it this way the slow birds are made to look else where for a few hours now and then, those birds that learn a bit faster show the way.

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