feeders and drinkers

Hello everyone

I am hoping to pick your brains if i may. I have finished building the chicken coop and pen and i now need to look at feeders and drinkers.
Now the plan is to build a lean to out of clear polycarbonate plastic on a wooden frame with a couple of hooks in it, and place/hang the drinker and feeder under here as opposed to keeping it in the coop itself, firstly is this a good idea? and secondly as i am planning on get 8 warren hens what size feeder/drinker should i get, i was thinking of either a galvernised one or possibly a larger tripod style one. I guess what i am asking is what sort of size (litre capcity) is suitable for 8 hens, from what i have read a hen will eat roughly 130g of layers pellets a day, so thats 1040g or just over a kilo of pellets a day, what does this equiate to in lirte capacity?

the same question for a drinker what would be a suitable size for 8 hens?

the coop is on the allotment so i will only be down their twice a day for a few hours during the week would i be better off with a greater capcity feeder and drinker, or is their a risk the food would go stale if left in the feeder for more than a couple of days
( i assume not as you can buy in sacks that are supposed to last weeks) but no harm in checking.

any way thankyou for any help you can give.

Paul

I use 2 drinkers 1x 3ltr 1x 5ltr for 11 birds 2 reasons for this if one gets knocked over then they will still have access to water and if i am delayed going to them the water will last the 2nd reason is only valid if like me you leave the poop hole open 24/7

Good idea.
We have two food containers anyway (the second one is a bread tin) because Sandra gets pushed out.
Our waterer hangs up and and is usually okay - but I agree with having an extra one there too: maybe a ceramic dog bowl.

Or knowing our lot, a great big muddy puddle....