Rain Catchment to Water Your Flock

[Mike592]

I'd love to set up something that incorporates rain catchment off a clean corrugated plastic roof (no asphalt shingles) to funnel into the waterers.

I'm thinking of a gutter to a debris screen to a food grade barrel, to a PVC nipple waterer system.

Are there threads or article you can point me to where this has been successful?

Thanks.

 

[Rich386]

I'd love to set up something that incorporates rain catchment off a clean corrugated plastic roof (no asphalt shingles) to funnel into the waterers.

I'm thinking of a gutter to a debris screen to a food grade barrel, to a PVC nipple waterer system.

Are there threads or article you can point me to where this has been successful?

Thanks.

There are several on here and on community chickens as well as youtube. Here is a simple diagram of a gravity fed system. You could incorporate the float valve as a fail safe or eliminate it.

 

[Mike592]

Thanks. I'll keep looking around.

What is the ideal size people tend to use so it can be mostly self-sufficient from a clean gutter, but not have 100 gallons sitting there unused all the time?

I have access to food grade 55 gallon drums.

 

[Mike592]

Do folks think a 55 gallon drum would be too large for a 5 hen flock?

The roof will be approximately 14x10, so it could catch quite a bit of rain water. I believe the math is for every 1000 square feet of roof footprint (not roof size)... for a 1" rainfall, the roof can harvest 600 gallons.