A device for feeding poultry kept in a barn, comprises at least one
food supply tube (1) which is held above the floor of the barn such as to be able to be lowered or raised, with a series of
branch openings, each provided with a dish device (2) hanging on the supply tube, comprising a dropping tube extending from the
branch opening and a feeding dish (4) arranged below, the dropping tube with a spoked arrangement of lattice bars (5) forming the cup of the dish. The dropping tube comprises an inner cylinder (7) leading off from the
branch opening and an outer cylinder (8) surrounding the inner cylinder, from which the dish hangs by means of the lattice bars, such as to be placed on the floor of the barn in the lowered state of the
food supply tube. The outer cylinder runs on the inner cylinder such as to rotate, be raised or lowered and at least one stop is provided for limiting the raising and lowering stoke. The outer and the inner cylinder each comprise adjacent cylindrical sections (8′, 8, 7′, 7) coaxial to each other, whereby front face regions of the cylinder sections turned to face other are connected to each other by means of bridging bodies (9, 23), which bridge a gap region corresponding to the separation between the cylinder sections.