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Nope, I'm serious! I actually did it for two reasons; one, to prevent the freezing-cold neck drips, and two, to catch as much rainwater as possible. Where I live we don't get any rain after May (and it doesn't return 'til October or so), so anything I can use to supplement garden watering is very welcome. Plus, it's free water!
You can do a gutter for around $25 on a coop that size. Home Depot has everything you need.
I think mine where even less, we used the vinyl ones for our garage/barn. For the coops I went super-cheap and just band-sawed a leftover PVC pipe in half (length-wise, obviously). The great thing about the PVC is that it is much more rigid than the vinyl gutter sections, so it's easy to get the pitch right and avoid low spots.
I think mine where even less, we used the vinyl ones for our garage/barn. For the coops I went super-cheap and just band-sawed a leftover PVC pipe in half (length-wise, obviously). The great thing about the PVC is that it is much more rigid than the vinyl gutter sections, so it's easy to get the pitch right and avoid low spots.
