We have successfully
installed four chicken nipples on 2 meters of PVC 100 mm
sewer pipe glued in a right angle, which holds nearly 20L of water and
does not take up much space in the Chicken Hilton for our four Isa
Brown chickens. I installed a bayonet mount so I can
attach the garden hose
from outside the cage to top up the water.
They seemed to learn how
to use this new watering system overnight after having a physical
demonstration. Thank you for your well documented and prompt delivery
to suburban Sydney.
Australian PVC pipe chicken waterer
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Anna & Mark
Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton are a pair of back-to-the-landers who have been homesteading for over a decade.
I see that a number of your waterer users use any random type of PVC or plastic buckets and that worries me. There is a reason that there are different grades of PVC pipe. There is only one class that is considered water supply acceptible. Other classes tend to have different solvents that will leach into the water overtime and are carcenogenic or at least toxic. PCBs are just one of the chemical families that will leach from the wrong type of plastic pipe.
That’s an excellent point. The pre-made waterers we sell are all made out of food grade plastic, but I think some people are less concerned about possible leaching in their homemade waterers. We do include a note to that end in our instructions file so that people can make an informed decision.