5 Gallon Double Wall Fount

Great product, after a year I bought a second one.
Advice, put it up on Blocks to prevent chicken from scratching dirt and poop into it.
I have not yet bought a heat plate for it but, I plan to this winter.
Spot welled handle came off but it is still a great product.

We have 5 of these that we have purchased over the last 2 or 3 years. The rubber stopper doesn't seat well over the hole, so the unit must be assembled while carrying it or the water will spill all over the ground (and your legs). This is an awkward way to carry it. One of them leaks while I fill it even when I try to seat the rubber piece first. While I agree with furbabymum that I feel like I am wasting my money, I haven't found a good product. If I were in manufacturing, I would never consider putting such a shoddy product on the market.

On the up side, I have tried plastic waterers and I like the concept of this one. No threads to cross, no turning upside down to fill it.

I hate this waterer. It leaks. This is the 3rd waterer I've bought so I'm just dealing with it but I'm not happy about it. I've used a level to make sure it's going on level ground. I've got it on a cement pad outside of the coop because it kept leaking and destroying the coop bedding. I really dislike this thing.

is a great waterer. i have many different kinds of waterers and this is the one that has lasted the entire time. we recently tried a different one and it only lasted a month. very please with this product. just bought 2 more.

I had been using the plastic type 5 gallon waterers, but my grip is failing and I had a hard time opening those. On top of that, I get wet capping the outlet and uncapping it, and backwash pulls waste into the tank. I saw one of these vaccum seal ones, and got it to try. So much easier to open and fill. Only downside is that I can't see the water level, but that's not a big issue. It only takes a moment to check them. An additional bonus is they don't backwash into the tank like the plastic ones do, so the water stays cleaner. I'll be slowly replacing all of them. In the meantime, my other half maintains the harder-to-use screw top ones.

Two years ago we bought the plastic 3 gallon heated waterer (Little Giant). My husband HATED it! It was very hard to fill. He complained each and every time he refilled it. We were at TSC and we saw the 5 gallon metal double wall fount. My husband made a heated stand and placed the metal waterer on it. We did not have any trouble with the water freezing (we did have a warmer winter I admit). But the metal waterer is so easy to fill, I do not have any problems filling it! We love it! I wish we would have bought it two years ago!!