Just wanted to get some feedback from the guys that have built these and see how tall you made the roof and how high off the ground you made the actually trough. I'm going to make one and was thinking I would make the roof about 6ft tall and put the trough about knee high or a little over knee high. As far as the roof goes I wanted to make sure I made it high enough that a buck couldn't damage his horns on it but I didnt wanna make it so high that it let rain blow in from the sides.

mine is eight feet X two feet, it is two feet off the ground. Roof is seven foot high, 10foot wide X 12 foot deep. Sides are solid to prevent blow in rain. Metal roof.

I built 11 trough feeders like that years ago at the club. The only other thing I did was a fine mesh screen bottom to help if moisture was possible.

I had mine built with top board 31 inches from ground to top of board to keep the hogs from eating out of it.

The coons will love you

I got 2 my big one is 4x3 foot 8 in deep and the roof is 4 foot above the trough. It holds 500 get some dog proofs traps which you need anyway. I keep it full year round usually get a month or 2 out of a full feeder

Normal size Deer chin some where around 40 inches from ground - so lower than that on the edge they lean over to feed

Think i put my redneck feeders 40-41 inches from ground to feed point

Had one trough where the camera was taken down and film pulled out. It was the coons that did that. The pics that were developed from the partial roll showed the coons.

I don’t use the trough feeders for this reason. On the Outdoor Alabama website, they link to a book about deer management in Alabama. On page 140, there is a picture of a trough feeder with over 20 coons eating.

I feed with a trough feeder only, but then I don't have coons. Only a skewerl or two.

https://mossyoakgamekeeper.com/hunting/equipment/how-to-build-a-trough-style-deer-feeder/

Look at this article and blue prints. -- These are great

If you have a lot of deer you will rapidly go broke keeping very many trough feeders full.

Trough height needs to be 28-30" if you have hogs they will get on their hinds and get in it

As of right now I dont have any hogs at this property and hopefully it will stay this way.

I built a couple. Both were 4x6 roughly and about a ft deep. My roofs are about 5ft high at the lowest point on the edges

heres what they look like

Yep that's bout what mine look like I won't ever use anything else to feed

I was feeding back when corn and beans were $3 & 3.50 a bushel. I can’t imagine now. I guessed around 3 k a year back then.

I am buying 50 lb bags of 20% protein deer feed for $13.50 a bag. Been using this feed for three years. We have 24 feeders. This price is about the best per lb that I have found for high protein deer feed.