automatic waterer

  1. Shimmerpuppy

    Inexpensive automatic chicken waterer and rain water catchment.

    Just thought I'd share our water collection and automatic waterer. We have 2 of the defender's pride XL sentinel coops. We added vinyl guttering on both sides to collect water in simple 5 gallon buckets. I do wish that I had bigger collection vessels, but this was available and cheap. After we...
  2. Raymond Dean White

    Algae in my automatic waterer

    I built an automatic waterer out of a food grade plastic bucket hooked up to a garden hose with a swamp cooler float valve controlling the flow. It has worked well for four months now in the extreme heat of our AZ summers (it's still in the 90's here and it's October 7). The water from the...
  3. msmeg26

    Rain Barrel waterer

    Would it be necessary to have the rain barrel water filtering or constantly moving to avoid being stagnant and algae growth??
  4. msmeg26

    Rain Barrel system for coop?

    Has anyone done a rain barrel system for their coop/run? Did you then filter it somehow or oxygenate it?? I am in the design phase of our future coop and considering collecting rain runoff from the run area, but unsettled of having the water sit in a rain barrel... It would then...
  5. B

    DIY automatic watering?

    I know there's another thread here with this topic, but now that I joined, I can't find it. I would like to make an automatic waterer from a 55 gallon drum. My rain barrel is about 30 feet from the henhouse. Although I am in the process of building a bigger henhouse closer. I was in the...
  6. ChitownChick

    We built an automated waterer! Pic & Video

    My husband built this automated watering system using PVC, chicken cups, and a toilet bowl valve. It's connected to our hose. We are brainstorming how to add a heating element for winterizing; the length of the hose between the spigot and chicken run is the challenge. For now, we use the...
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