imacowgirl2
Songster
I’m not sure exactly where I saw it here on the forums, but whoever originally posted it has my unending gratitude…posting here in hopes of helping someone else out since we all know meat birds go through a ton more water than layers.
Using a cheap stock tank float and a goat/sheep feed pan has been the EASIEST way to keep my meat birds watered!
It hangs high enough that they don’t really get it dirty (and if they do, it’s super easy to hold the float closed and quickly dump out!) and I’m not dealing with a huge water container taking up valuable space, and they aren’t running out of water and I’m not refilling a waterer multiple times per day.
When they were smaller I was using a ten foot gutter — when they were big enough that I was filling that multiple times per day, I switched over to a metal double walled 8 gallon poultry fount. That worked ok for a couple weeks, but was a pain to get perfectly level and refill every 1-2 days (especially since the seal on mine didn’t close properly). When I started having to refill it multiple times a day last week, I’d had enough. Installed this waterer in about ten mins yesterday morning and the past 24 hours of my life (and these birds’ lives) have been amazing
Mine is currently hooked up to a garden hose, but this weekend’s project is to install the rain barrel outside the coop which will feed this (and prevent some of my yard flooding/mud issues).
Using a cheap stock tank float and a goat/sheep feed pan has been the EASIEST way to keep my meat birds watered!
It hangs high enough that they don’t really get it dirty (and if they do, it’s super easy to hold the float closed and quickly dump out!) and I’m not dealing with a huge water container taking up valuable space, and they aren’t running out of water and I’m not refilling a waterer multiple times per day.
When they were smaller I was using a ten foot gutter — when they were big enough that I was filling that multiple times per day, I switched over to a metal double walled 8 gallon poultry fount. That worked ok for a couple weeks, but was a pain to get perfectly level and refill every 1-2 days (especially since the seal on mine didn’t close properly). When I started having to refill it multiple times a day last week, I’d had enough. Installed this waterer in about ten mins yesterday morning and the past 24 hours of my life (and these birds’ lives) have been amazing
Mine is currently hooked up to a garden hose, but this weekend’s project is to install the rain barrel outside the coop which will feed this (and prevent some of my yard flooding/mud issues).
