Automatic Chicken Waterer
An automatic Chicken waterer that even Beau can build!?!??
Hahaha. Yes, if you know me I am not the handiest dude out there. I am a homestead wannabe, so most hands on tasks are things that I have never tackled before. And I have seriously been needed to come up with a new watering system for my rabbitry!
Enter the Simple Automatic Waterer
A couple of days ago I shared with you the most beautiful eggs that I have ever seen. I am sure that many of you produce even prettier eggs, but remember...I am still a suburban homestead wannabe!!
While at our friends house she showed me this cool automatic chicken waterer she built.
It is merely just a gravity fed upside down water jug you get with a water machine at work. What are those called? I'm self employed so I'm not sure. Water cooler!?? Btw how was the water cooler talk after the big game??
Anyway, as you can see in the photo, all she did was get the write size PVC pipe to go from the water jug down to these little Amazon chicken waterer cups:
12 Pack of OUTWEST TRADING Automatic Chicken Waterer / Poultry Watering Cups Drinkers https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XJ9TG9F/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_XAqEAbP6XWEJ8
And here is a couple more shots of how she set it up.
I know I know, she has a little algae problem which she can just paint the jug black and that'll take care of it.
Now are there easier systems? YES OF COURSE!! But I hadn't seen this before. And with the bucket waters with the nipples attached...you actually have to go inside the coop to change it.
Don't have to with this!!
Maybe this will help someone thinking about new ideas for your watering system. I know that I'll be taking this idea and modifying it to fit our rabbit hutch.
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Nice! I wonder if it would work for rabbits? And, less likely to freeze?
I'm fighting that issue of everything freezing right now too. I wonder if the simple bucket with nipples on the bottom, and a small tank heater would work better in a cold winter situation... I'm so tired of thawing things... Where's Al Gore's inconveniently missing global warming when you actually need it?
Only way something like that would work without freezing would be wrapping up the water source with heat tape and insulating it.
She said it still froze. But we are down here in Texas. So we hit our MAX at maybe 3 freezing days. hahaha. I know I know, we are spoiled down here in Texas compared to you guys and gals up north.
BUT!!! Just come visit us in July/August... you will see that life isn't all that great here in the heat of the summer.
You and everything else cooks in 105*!!!
Great work. Ive got a similar thing going and it works well too. We get the algae problem toi.
That’s crazy cool!
Looks like a good watering system! I've wondered how well the water in cups work. Have you tried putting a little bit of apple cider vinegar in the water a couple times a week to help with the algae?
That could be smart, I personally just give them a small pond and some buckets...
That's Awesome! I've never seen the little drinking cups before. Always seen the little nipples they use commercially...
My chickens almost died of thirst last year when I tried to get them to use the nipples that go into the bottom of a bucket. I had to just put their little plastic water thing back out there...😒
Wow! Wouldn't have expected that. Guess Everytime I have used them I always had another source and maybe that's why I never had any issues...
I had to take each chicken and push it's beak against the nipple to teach it how to use them. Sometimes the nipples are red because that triggers the chickens natural pecking response (that's why most poultry accessories are red).
I tried that. I think I just have stupid chickens... lol
I know what that's like. I got a dozen chickens that had previously been confinement laying hens. They (and the other 20,000ish of their closest friends) were going to be destroyed after they started their first moult. These birds don't even know HOW to be chickens. They don't scratch, and it its not a pellet they don't see it as food.
A small tornado hit an egg farm in a small town real close to us, and my husband’s company did the repairs on their giant chicken houses. There were hundreds of thousands of ‘displaced’ chickens. One of his coworkers took a truck load of them home and lost all but 2. He said the exact same thing, they didn’t know how to be chickens.
Simple and easy... seems like it gets the job done. good post.
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