This is completely accurate. Big Box had a sale on pavers for 25 cents each. (Easier to handle than concrete blocks.) I got 400 and used some of them in the coop to make places to stand/walk, build stacks for the water fonts, and it allows me to level it, put a heater on it then the font, and chickens cant move them. Each time I raised the font, it stayed cleaner longer. I set one layer half into the ground cuz I am clumzy and will kick it. Usually 3 pavers tall and two long edges wide for a 5 gallon font. Take a layer off if you are using a heater.
I wonder if you assembled them to leak for a day or two, that might draw them to it??
Maybe, but not a good idea, IMO.
Thread the nipples in without enough Teflon tape...?
Shouldn't need teflon tape if the hole is properly drilled(size and smoothness).
i agree but i have an unusual coop design. A long section of a barn with a lot of ventilation section ed with baffles around the roosts. My barn roof leaks, although I have reduced it. There are 86 birds in 500 sq ft. Open and close at dusk and dawn. The roof gutter flows outside the lenai, which is the coop's porch. It is rocky there and muddy a bit but these birds are all alive after 4, 5, and 6 months for each third of the flock.
Sorry! In my head it is implied the bowls ar elevated, but that is only because it is so normal to me to have them elevated. It does not cross my mind that there are people who do not keep their bowls off the ground. I have been doing this since they were in the brooder.
