DIY Thread - Let's see your "Inventions".

[Beekissed]

I just installed one in a bucket today and will be sitting the bucket down into my heated dog bowl to see if that will keep the water unfrozen and hoping it will keep the nipple lever unfrozen as well. If it does not I'll just direct a light bulb toward the nipple mechanism to keep it thawed...I'm tired of messy winter watering also.

 

[Angelicisi]

Lol

i am a nipple guy. 

sure beats cleaning slime from founts or worrying they are empty

our temps are 78 at night 88 during day. 

 

[Angelicisi]

I love mine. Soooooo much time and water saved.

That's why I like the cups. Same idea. Easy to clean and work very well, same convenience as the nipples... and a little more natural way of drinking for a chicken. I wrote a review of them on another thread that I could link. They're supposed to be on a pvc pipe system but I used them on buckets. If they need cleaning you just twist them to turn them over and swish it out with a finger. Love those things.

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: Here is the place that I got the idea from.....

Quail breeder watering system.

I want to adapt the Chicken coop for this kind of watering system..... The waterer will be easy enough. and the same kind of trough can be used for either FF or a big fifty pound feeder. Like I said It will be a while until I can actually live at my house.... so If I start up with chickens again I will have to be certain they will have both food and water for at least a week.... two weeks in case I run into trouble.

Even if I never do it for the coop I will most definately do it for my next brooder cage... That and a wire bottom.

deb

 

[aart]

Sorry...don't have any pics of that. Never thought it was something one would want to take a pic of, really.

Would just be good to see exactly how they are taped, I find it an interesting technique for pre-slaughter process, never heard of it before....can they stand at all while taped?
Maybe next time you slaughter you can take a pic.

 

[jimmywalt]

I just installed one in a bucket today and will be sitting the bucket down into my heated dog bowl to see if that will keep the water unfrozen and hoping it will keep the nipple lever unfrozen as well. If it does not I'll just direct a light bulb toward the nipple mechanism to keep it thawed...I'm tired of messy winter watering also.

Check out the link in my signature line for the heated waterer. I've had mine going for a few weeks with nights in the upper 20's and I've checked the water in the morning and it's still "room temp".

My winter will be easy with my waterer.

 

[PrimroseMom1]

Ours dip in summer too. In the summer (in addition to the indoor waterer) I put pyrex pans (13x9ish) in several places throughout the range area that they can stand in and dip faces, etc. I also will not use the nipples for various reasons. If you ever build that water system I'd love to see some photos of how you devise it. I really like the small cup waterers that would work well in that kind of system. Decided not to mess around with keeping the necks from freezing in the winter since I'm away at work during the day. Thus the new glass waterers. Did you see the videos of how they set those up? I'll post them for you if not. (Showed both the cup waterers and the glass waterer earlier in this thread.)

I got some woods blocks out of the trash and put my waterer on it and I haven't had any issues. Mine like to stand in water too. I bought a little pool bec they literally stand in line to stand in the bird bath, but they wouldn't use the pool and kept standing in line for the bird bath. Lol.

 

[Beekissed]

Would just be good to see exactly how they are taped, I find it an interesting technique for pre-slaughter process, never heard of it before....can they stand at all while taped?
Maybe next time you slaughter you can take a pic.

Yep, they can stand..as you saw the rooster standing in the wheelbarrow. They can move quite a ways, as I slaughtered this morning and had left all birds trussed inside the coop last night on a bed of leaves and found one of them about 10 yards away from the coop this morning where he had decided to hop to freedom. Got out the pop door, around the whole coop, and traveled about 10 yds down the yard on his own steam.

 

[aart]

Yep, they can stand..as you saw the rooster standing in the wheelbarrow. They can move quite a ways, as I slaughtered this morning and had left all birds trussed inside the coop last night on a bed of leaves and found one of them about 10 yards away from the coop this morning where he had decided to hop to freedom. Got out the pop door, around the whole coop, and traveled about 10 yds down the yard on his own steam.

Couldn't see his legs so didn't know he was standing. So it's more like a hobble, they can stand but not really walk?
This makes it easier to catch them on doomsday, supposedly minimizing adrenaline production?

 

[Beekissed]

Couldn't see his legs so didn't know he was standing. So it's more like a hobble, they can stand but not really walk?
This makes it easier to catch them on doomsday, supposedly minimizing adrenaline production?

Would you like to take this discussion to a more appropriate thread or to PM, as this is pretty much off topic?