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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 June 2022
We bought this to feed pellets and sticks to our rabbits twice a day (in addition to the bail of hay they have) to cover weekend trips. The portion size capacity of each section was at the limit to fit all the food in for two rabbits and quite a small aperture for them to fight over access to it too, but just about works okay.
Two things to note are:
1) The timer works on an ‘interval’ basis, in other words, you only set one time/duration and that is the interval at which the feeder then rotates to the next section. So if i set a timer of 12:00 it will rotate to the next section every 12hrs, so gives 2 feeds a day., for three days (6 sections in total). This does mean however, that you need to set it going at about the correct time of the first feed, as there is no delay feature/does not work on a clock timer.
2) This then leads us onto the next issue, where there is no retractible cover over the first section, which means when I go to put the feeder down, it is already showing/offering the first feed…which in effect wastes/uses that section, since the rabbits will immediately eat this portion, whereas I would like to just manually feed the rabbits at that point myself and for the feeder to have a temporary cover over the feeding window when the timer is set, so that they then get their next feed, say 12hrs later, fully using the 6 portions on the timer…as it is, you only really get 5 timed portions…so I have marked it down a bit for that poor design.
But the interval (timer) is easy to set and it is easy to dismantle for cleaning and filling, does not take up a lot of space and is good value, for a very basic feeder. Just make sure it does what you want it to. I would only put dry food in here, too.
Two things to note are:
1) The timer works on an ‘interval’ basis, in other words, you only set one time/duration and that is the interval at which the feeder then rotates to the next section. So if i set a timer of 12:00 it will rotate to the next section every 12hrs, so gives 2 feeds a day., for three days (6 sections in total). This does mean however, that you need to set it going at about the correct time of the first feed, as there is no delay feature/does not work on a clock timer.
2) This then leads us onto the next issue, where there is no retractible cover over the first section, which means when I go to put the feeder down, it is already showing/offering the first feed…which in effect wastes/uses that section, since the rabbits will immediately eat this portion, whereas I would like to just manually feed the rabbits at that point myself and for the feeder to have a temporary cover over the feeding window when the timer is set, so that they then get their next feed, say 12hrs later, fully using the 6 portions on the timer…as it is, you only really get 5 timed portions…so I have marked it down a bit for that poor design.
But the interval (timer) is easy to set and it is easy to dismantle for cleaning and filling, does not take up a lot of space and is good value, for a very basic feeder. Just make sure it does what you want it to. I would only put dry food in here, too.
