please help me so confused

[chynasparks]

Correction to my previous post. That waterer system I was talking about is at brite tap.com. Has anyone tried this?

 

[Hokum Coco]

@ chynasparks
I used the nipple bucket system. It works well but has it faults to you will find. The nipples need protected or you can not set the bucket down. Some times the nipple sticks and your bucket drains or just develops an annoying drip after a time (at least on the nipples I had).
Usually taking the nipple apart and maybe cleaning or lubricating the O rings with grease stop that I have to admit.

It is as a good as system as a lot and better than most.

If you could mount your bucket outside the coop some how I think would be a better set up if possible.
Good luck with yours.

 

[chynasparks]

Well, it's because of those reasons that I have hesitated on getting nipples. I'd hate to come home from work and find that my peeps haven't been able to drink. But it's no different than dirty water or clogged drainage holes. The reason I'm leaning toward that brite tap device is that you can see water in the reservoir. Still looking around to see what's best. What ever I choose I will still be in the coop making sure the peeps and equipment is working.

 

[fiddlebanshee]

I've had no problems whatsoever to get my chicks and chickens to drink from nipples. My concern with it is that I have the feeling they're not getting enough water. When I put out the conventional waterers they drank a lot more. Eventually my chickens destroyed the nipples by pulling on them very hard and that was the proverbial drop in the bucket (pun intended).

I switched to the traditonal round ones that work on a vacuum (the ones you don't have to flip over) and hoses to fill them.

 

[fiddlebanshee]

Ok I need help planning my watering system. I really like the PVC pipe waterers with holes NOT nipples. I want to have a 55 gal bucket outside my coop that feeds water into the PVC inside my coop. I don't know how to make it so the water stops when the PVC is full:/ I don't have electric to my coop. Any ideas will help

This will never work. You need a vacuum to prevent the water from spilling out. So unless you can create a perfect vacuum at the top, they will always keep flowing.

 

[LoneOak]

The Brite Tap Chicken Waterer is not that much different from other systems that use nipples except it is made of clear see through plastic. It still uses nipples and is just a piece that connects to a cooler or bucket or storage box basically any reservoir that you have and delivers water to the nipples in a clear plastic manifold. From all the pictures they show the BriteTap is connected directly to the reservoir and the entire thing is place inside the coop. I am sure you might could figure out someway to mount the britetap inside and the reservoir outside, maybe by putting the reservoir on outside of the wire and having the BriteTap inside the wire.

If you check your water level daily in the reservoir I don't really see the advantage but the BriteTap is a nice product and will work well for what it was designed for.

 

[MelissaTXRn]

I use a 5 gallon cooler outside the coop. It is attached to a clear hose and fed into the coop and attaches to a piece of pvc pipe with horizontal nipples on it. It stays clean, cool in the summer and will be warm in the winter. I bought the nipples from Rich386 on here. My only regret is I wish I had bought them sooner. They are so easy and so clean.

 

[MelissaTXRn]

 

[kimmerjo]

So if the bucket has a lid it will create a vacuum?

 

[fiddlebanshee]

Only if it closes very, very tightly. You only know when you try it out. There should not be any air allowed to come in along the way either, except there where the chickens drink from it. As soon as the vacuum is disrupted the pressure from the air will let the water flow freely. The same construct as when you put your finger on a straw in a glass of soda and then lift the straw out of the glass. The liquid will stay in the straw. If you lift your finger off, the soda will flow out. And, of course, air needs to be able to get in where it is flowing out so that the pressure is equalized and the vacuum doesn't prevent the water from flowing out at all. The way these are designed is that water flows into a lip and when the level of the water in the lip is below the opening in the bucket or water reservoir, the water will alternatively flow out and air flow in, like a bottle that you are pouring. When the water level is above the hole, the water dispensing stops.

So if you wanted to do something with pvc pipe, you'd have to have it submerged in a shallow reservoir that will then be drained by the chickens drinking, at which point the water will flow out of the pipe and air will go up, refilling the reservoir until the level of the water is higher than the top of the opening of the pipe.

The other way you could engeneer this is with a toilet tank flow valve. The contraption that is in your toilet tank to stop the water from flowing when a certain level is reached.