I didn't bring up buckets until after you started talking about them.
I'm just afraid of messing up. Part of the reason I had the plan of using something that already has holes.
Yep, I know. I was planning on using the cup system in summer.
I'm also a Michigander. I have the usual waterer design we can use for winters. Just the standard waterers with screw off bottoms.
We have a Walmart, TSC, & a Hardware store, but not everything is exactly cheap anymore where I live.
But I'll figure something out. I'll give TSCs bucket waterers another look, & compare price, but they use nipples.
It'll have too set on something. I have an old nesting box I'm gonna repurpose into a stand for it. My dad is currently using every cinderblock we have for the end of the wood pile.