*~ My Brooder - Auto Waterer - Auto Feeder - Easy - PICTURE HEAVY ~*

[peej]

This is my completed brooder that works very well!

- I don't have to check the water or food often

- Very easy to refill water/feed without even putting my hands in the brooder

- Nice area for the chicks to hang out and drink and eat all day!

Here is what I started with... just some scraps we had laying around the house - wood, pvc, and other random items

I'll start with the auto feeder!

This is what it looks like with the lid open:

Lid Closed:

Then I can just put feed in without open the top:

Here is the inside with the lid closed:

Now to the Waterer:

The Bucket that holds my water is sitting on the backside of the brooder, above where their lamp is:

Here is a better to get an idea of how the top looks:

Then you can just fill up the water (currently have chicken gatorade in there right now - that "save a chick stuff")

More Pictures so you can get the idea on how it comes down into the brooder:

This is where the chicks actually drink off of:

They figured it out right away, and loved it! I couldn't get pictures of them with the lid open but here is some through the chicken wire:

Here are some pictures of how the light system works, I just took a light socket and hard wired it to a male end!

Light/Light Socket coming out into the Brooder:

This is what it looks like coming out of the top:

And here are some details you can view:

And here it is closed and protected:

That is all for my Coop Design, it works very very well!

Tips for the nipples that worked out very well after them leaking the first time I used them:

- Use teflon and an o-oring for each nipple and it won't leak!

- Drill the 23/64 hole

- and it works great!

Thank you for looking! I hope you guys liked it! Please let me know what you think!

If you have any questions or comments you can post here or PM me!

Thanks Again,
Preston

 

[TinyLittleFarm]

Really excellent!

 

[Sorin]

Excellent ideas!

 

[peej]

Thank you!

 

[dcouette]

Awesome! Thanks for posting! Certainly has given me some good ideas!

 

[Lurach]

Wow! Very nice set-up. You have some excellent ideas that I just might have to borrow.

 

[zookeeper15133]

Very nice set up! Great ideas. How does the auto waterer work when they get bigger? Is it adjustable?

 

[peej]

Sweet! Glad to hear that! It is working out awesome now that it is all set up, I need to post how I set up the light fixture! I hard wired the light fixture to a male ended piece that comes out the top so that I can just plug it in from the outside no hassle!

 

[peej]

Quote:
There isn't that much water pressure coming down from the 5 gal bucket so I didn't have to seal (glue) the pvc together, so as they get bigger I will just cut the vertical piece that you can see when the pvc is coming down from the top, or I might just have some precut ones that I can just throw in there as they get bigger! Yeah I had to think about that question for a while as I was building it!

Edit:

This is the piece I will be cutting/ replacing and it will just raise the whole system up to the right height:

 

[macadam8157]

Congrats on the auto waterer looks awesome!