3 or 5 gal buckets!

[AtRendeAcres]

I just notice in mcmurrayhatchery.com

turn your bucket into a waterer...
this is for a 3 to 5 gallon bucket it's just like the base that attaches to the mason jars (except bigger)

but I don't want to pay $25 buy the time you get through with shipping!

I am wondering if any one know were we can get cheeper!

wonder if they have for food too:/

 

[ThunderStruck]

Why don't you make your own? Just go to your local china-mart or grocery store's deli or bakery dept and ask if they have any old buckets. then go back to the garden dept and look for one of those plastic red round trays that the plastic pots sit in. Then go home and cut or drill about a 4 in dia hole in the bottom, flip upside down so that the bottom is now the top & attach it. simple as that. And a lot cheaper too. For a waterer just turn the bucket right side up, then drill some 1/4 in holes around the base and attach the base tray the same way.

Forrest

 

[FarmerMack]

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Dumb question on the "upside down bucket" waterer, does the bucket still have it lid on it?

Farmer Mack

 

[chickenranchwife]

I seen some of them the other day at our local Runnings store. Not sure what you have where you are, but that's what we have. I had considered it. I really need to switch over to Galvinized so I can use heaters. Yesterday it was 0 degrees at 6:30 AM

 

[FutureChickenMan]

Check out the learning center, there's a couple of different designs that you can build yourself, cheaply.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/LC-howto.html

 

[FarmerMack]

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I founnd the bucket upside down one thanks, only drawback i can see is that the ladies will want to roost on the top of the bucket. I'll have to devise a cone for the top or something.

Farmer Mack

 

[FutureChickenMan]

I've seen folks put an upside down funnel on top of their feeders. That might work for the waterer too, but you'll need a biiiiiig funnel.

 

[FarmerMack]

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ya really big funnel LOL I'll come up with something slippery like the dunce cap cone i put on the chick feeder. funny how all these plastic items for cihckens are flat knowing they willing roost on them when given the chance.

Fatmer Mack

 

[johnnyjack]

hey go to my page i made a feeder out of a 2 gal bucket and a 5 gal. hanging in my run. im gona try the water bucket but havent needed it yet.

 

[FarmerMack]

I'm going with the 5 gal bucket with a black rubber pan underneath, figured that I'd set it on a cider block in the coop for the winter under a heat lamp attached to a "thermal cube". since the window is fairly big 46"X47" and gets lots of sunlight it may help keeo the water thawed out on a sunny day without the heat lamp on.

Farmer Mack