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[Sweetman1205]

Love all the coops guys!! just replaced the floor with sand! Incredibly excited!! And love how easy it is to clean!

 

[perchie.girl]

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Awesome Glad they finally changed that law....

deb

 

[Sylvester017]

Removed all vertical nipples and added 5 more horizontal ones on the opposite side of the pipe. It was interesting to watch them trying to drink from the plugs. It only took about 20 minutes for a few to figure out how to get up on the blocks to drink from the new ones. I put a 4in block and 2 8in blocks in the back for them to stand on. Im thinking they may not need the 8in ones. It took longer for the water to build up this time but still too much dripping so we will try all horizontal nipples for a while. Hopefully it will stay dryer.

With no vertical nipples i will have to keep it filled so the nipples dont dry out.

Hope it all works out for you! We all gotta do what works best for us. I'm pretty much restricted to vertical nipple valves since I have one Silkie that likes to stand under the valves and take a "shower" from head-to-foot to stay cool in this heat!!!

 

[NanaNeen]

[COLOR=0000CD]Sounds like you have good water!  The only good water we get is from bottled filtered water.  We have to get our 5-gallon bottles refilled every couple weeks, but we got used to doing it.  We consider it beneficial to have good drinking and cooking water -- especially when we water our chickens.  I can't help feeling I'm keeping their (and our) internal organs free of heavy minerals and chemicals.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=0000CD]Bleaching is a good thing but where we live the water districts overdo it!  We shouldn't be smelling chlorine when the tap water runs!  My friend had her DH run her washing machine gray water into the backyard plants - of course, she has to use benign detergent to wash clothes but that's the way she gets around the water district's lawn-watering restrictions.  We were restricted to 4 days, down to 3 days, now to 1 day with Sunday being a free day.  It's getting ridiculous!  I'm trying to figure out how the gigantic city parks and school grounds are getting away with all the water they're using up while our yards all go yellow - hmmmm?!![/COLOR]

I feel very blessed. I'm so sorry about the water problems. I have had to bleach our well before but it's only 75 ft deep with high gallons/min. flow pressure. We deal with water damage more than drought. We live right on the bank of a river and it has tried to take the bank a few times...

 

[gpeters3]

Hope it all works out for you!  We all gotta do what works best for us.  I'm pretty much restricted to vertical nipple valves since I have one Silkie that likes to stand under the valves and take a "shower" from head-to-foot to stay cool in this heat!!!

It was making a muddy mess so i had to make some changes. After moving the drink station outboard the floor stayed dryer for an extra week or so but still isnt draining so hopefully all horizontal nipples will keep it dryer.

 

[Intheswamp]

Who all here has a rain collection system I just made one yesterday and so far it has been working great today I raised it higher up on a stand so it will have more water pressure. So far so good

Well, depending on how clean you want the water in the barrel to be you might want to add in a roof flusher to use the first few gallons to rinse the roof off with. Here's a manufactured one... http://www.rainharvest.com/rain-harvesting-pty-downspout-first-flush-diverter.asp . There are DIY versions, but the Frist Flush is a good one. No biggie on leaves and pine needles, but wild bird poop might be something to think about...also use some clorox to help keep it clean.

Best wishes,
Ed

 

[bigmrg74]

It is an old truck I picked up off CL a few years ago for very cheap but it is not licensed for the road any more. I have a ton of trees and we live in a very wet climate so I am constantly trimming and cleaning gutters on 3 big buildings. I am a retired power lineman so running it is second nature for me it beats using a ladder. I can clean all my gutters in a day now where it used to be a week long job up and down ladders and that is not safe. I also clean 2 chimneys and put up & take down the Christmas lights with it. My neighbor went in half for it so neither of us has much money invested.

Mike

Dang, that would come in awfully handy. I got some tin on the top of the sliding door on the front of the barn I need to trim because we hit it again with a bale on a hay wagon. top of the door is 13 feet up, and it's a real pain in the butt trying to get a ladder right there.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

[COLOR=0000CD]Sounds like you have good water!  The only good water we get is from bottled filtered water.  We have to get our 5-gallon bottles refilled every couple weeks, but we got used to doing it.  We consider it beneficial to have good drinking and cooking water -- especially when we water our chickens.  I can't help feeling I'm keeping their (and our) internal organs free of heavy minerals and chemicals.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=0000CD]Bleaching is a good thing but where we live the water districts overdo it!  We shouldn't be smelling chlorine when the tap water runs!  My friend had her DH run her washing machine gray water into the backyard plants - of course, she has to use benign detergent to wash clothes but that's the way she gets around the water district's lawn-watering restrictions.  We were restricted to 4 days, down to 3 days, now to 1 day with Sunday being a free day.  It's getting ridiculous!  I'm trying to figure out how the gigantic city parks and school grounds are getting away with all the water they're using up while our yards all go yellow - hmmmm?!![/COLOR]

Just watch with that bottled water here is a video to show you what I mean.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Well, depending on how clean you want the water in the barrel to be you might want to add in a roof flusher to use the first few gallons to rinse the roof off with.  Here's a manufactured one... http://www.rainharvest.com/rain-harvesting-pty-downspout-first-flush-diverter.asp .  There are DIY versions, but the Frist Flush is a good one.  No biggie on leaves and pine needles, but wild bird poop might be something to think about...also use some clorox to help keep it clean.

Best wishes,
Ed

I might get out a small tank and connect it to give me a little bit more water storage. I will get some pics once I figure out what all i am doing yet wih it.

 

[perchie.girl]

3000 gallon water tank... just resting on a bed of very level gravel... it takes me ten days to fill it It is NOT plumbed to the house. but that booster tank below will deliver water at almost pressure jet pressures. Its Considered a fire tank and supposed to be used for that purpose but most people plumb them to the house to use as a buffer for low water days.

I would love to have an additional one placed right behind this one and plumb that one to the house. with overflow from the front tank used to fill the back tank.

Camper shell on the right is gone now... as is the truck with a camper on it... That belonged to my ex roommate.

deb