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The Producan automatic hopper is a dog feed hopper made of galvanised sheet steel with a 40 litre capacity \u2014 a whole 15 kg sack of dry food \u2014 that doesn't leave the food out free choice: it releases each serving at the time you set, up to 30 a day. It can stay outside all year round, and we make it in our workshop in Galicia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The traditional dog feed hopper is self-feed: a container that keeps releasing dry food into a bowl as the dog eats. The dog eats whenever it wants and as much as it wants. An automatic hopper keeps the dry food sealed and releases only the serving that's due, at the time you set on its timer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For a dog that regulates itself, a self-feed hopper works fine. A greedy dog can eat as much as it wants from it, which isn't the same as what it needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The three options are compared in Self-feed hopper, app-controlled or programmable feeder: what a dog that lives outdoors needs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dogs that overeat.<\/strong> With measured servings at set times, you decide how much it eats, not the dog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dogs that live outdoors.<\/strong> The dry food isn't left in a bowl out in the open or within reach of mice and birds: only the serving that has just dropped comes out, and the rest stays sealed in the hopper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two dogs at once.<\/strong> The double version dispenses the same serving through two outlets on opposite sides of the hopper, so each dog eats on its own side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Smallholdings and sheds you don't visit every day.<\/strong> Full, it lasts for weeks, and there's a battery model for places with no mains power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What it doesn't do, put plainly: a Producan feeder doesn't dispense to the gram, because it releases the serving by opening time and doesn't weigh it. If your dog needs an exact serving on the vet's instructions, you want an auger dispenser. The gravity feed versus auger comparison<\/a> explains why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the 15 kg of dry food that fits in the hopper, and counting the daily serving recommended by most dry food makers:<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhich dogs is an automatic hopper worth it for?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
How long does it last full, depending on the dog's weight?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n