Did you see our “What’s it Wednesday” post on Facebook? We asked
what this artifact could be.
As a reminder the object is a light metal pail, however that’s
not all it is. The pail has two metal planes that cross it. One, which crosses
approximately 10% of the pails opening at its lip and another which covers
approximately 95% of the pail’s opening about 5cm below the top lip. The pail has
little feet on its outside, so it sits on its side without rolling around.
The object is actually a chicken feed pail. Chicken feed
would be placed in the bucket and slowly fall out as chicken ate the feed that
sat inside. The larger metal lid controlled how much feed fell out at once, a
larger opening meant more feed for the chickens, whereas the smaller metal plane
acted as a stopper or lip so the chicken feed wouldn’t keep pouring out onto
the floor
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