You know, I heard you yesterday when you commented that the website had too many options. True, I had left up some legacy products because of the great reviews they had. So I spent about three hours today transferring the reviews on those legacy products to the newer version of that product and removing the legacy product listings. This forum is invaluable as a listening post about our feeder and the needs of the flock owners.Thank you! I like to research so the website content is useful just the sites a little harder to navigate, just a personal opinion. Also I’m on mobile so maybe I’ll pop out the laptop to take another look! LOL I’ll check it out more and HOENSTLY figure that your feeder medium soft close will be the best treadle feeder for us. Just closing the gap learning more about the training process before I pull the trigger. Thanks for taking the time to respond!
The best source of training info is the nearly 200 reviews on our most popular feeder the Medium that Rojo Marz bought. Don't let their views override the written training instructions on the product page though. Some folks really mess up. I saw one review that had posted a picture of their feeder with the comments they were very happy but it took four days to train their hens.
Imagine this scene. An angled chicken ladder coming down from a coop maybe three feet off the ground, the poor treadle feeder being hung on a close by freaking welded wire wall, with four bricks standing on edge supporting just the bottom of the feeder. Hillbilly meets redneck meets rube goldburg kind of installation. The treadle appeared to just touch the chicken ladder on the left side. How in the h*ll did they not manage to kill all of their chickens I do not know, much less that it took only four days to get them to use the feeder. But it solved their rat problem.
Mobile, yes, the site is mobile friendly but there is a ton of info and it views much better on a laptop. I really, really, want people to read the info and make an informed buying decision. Money is hard to come by, the $8 to $10 in profit on a feeder isn't worth an unhappy customer, but the shipping has gotten so expensive that you can't sell on approval unless you are charging Grandpa feeder prices. I prefer not to do that and keep prices as low as possible. You know the saying, pigs get fed. Hogs get slaughtered.