One more question:
I originally got the idea when I saw this picture online. As I mentioned, I have two buckets also in the coop with horizontal nipples. Would it be easier/better for any reason to hook the rain barrel to one of those rather than the gravity-waterer?
It does not require the lid to work. The float or whatever it is (sorry I don’t really understand it myself) is a ring of plastic under the barrel that holds the water, and there is a small opening at the bottom of the red ring that allows water out.
The bucket has two a hole in the bottom and...
We have to go away for about nine days last minute. We’re leaving on Monday. We have nine chickens. I have two 15 L buckets with horizontal nipple waterers in the chicken run/coop. I also have a 20 L gravity fed waterer like the picture below. We have a rain barrel that captures rainwater right...