Homemade chicken waterer reservoirs

October 6, 2010 Posts No Comments

Turning a traditional waterer into a nipple-based watererWhat
kind of container can you use to turn our homemade chicken
waterer kit into a
poop-free waterer?  Just about anything.  Molly sent me this
photo along with a brief note:


Yes,
that’s just a regular 3-gallon waterer that my husband and I got
disgusted with.  We took off the red base, installed the nipples
and drilled an additional hole through the handle to insert a wire
hanging loop. Everyone loves it, humans and chickens alike.  Now
that we don’t have poopy water to deal with anymore, life with chickens
is almost too easy.  Thanks very much for this great product!

Vinegar jug waterer

Isn’t that a great way
to change over to clean water without sending your old waterer to the
landfill?



Meanwhile, Amber sent in
this photo showing her pullets drinking out of a vinegar bottle
waterer.  She wrote:


This
was taken when we first introduced our chickens to the new
waterer.  They love it and so do I!  Thanks for such a great
product!!



Thanks to both Molly and
Amber for sharing your ingenuity!

Bucket PVC and nipple chicken waterer

October 4, 2010 Posts 3 Comments

Chicken waterer made out of a five gallon bucket, PVC pipe, and chicken nipplesI
posted a couple of weeks ago about Julie’s ingenious pegboard
watering system that
allowed her to easily move our nipples up to accomodate growing
chicks.  Well, those chicks are just about grown up now and are
enjoying their adult digs out in a tractor/coop combo.  Julie sent
me some followup pictures of her new watering system.  She wrote:


We
finally finished the nipple watering system for the chicken tractor (7
nipples for 16 birds) – the bottle is for the shorter birds. We are
leaving the water jugs in the coop until all the birds are tall enough
to reach the nipples
Short chicken steps up to reach a nipple waterer
This one is needs a little lift to reach the nipple… smart bird!

I wanted to share my photos with the internet world because the
projects other people have come up with inspired me so and now I can to
be an inspiration to others and your website will help with that! 
Thanks for posting and it validates all the time I spent preparing for
this venture. I researched for months before I got my chicks and
designed my chicken tractor.  I looked at every design and idea
people had done and what I came up with was the best of the best. 
I am so glad I discovered your nipple watering system
and I am designing a system to go into the coop for the winter as we
get temps here in the high desert as low as 0 to -5 degrees for a few
days. 


Nipple-based chicken waterer

Thanks for the photos
and followup information, Julie!  We’ll be waiting with baited
breath to hear how your heated waterer setup works out this winter.

But chickens are so dirty

October 1, 2010 Posts No Comments
Clean chicken coop

Chicken watererPeople too numerous to count
have told me that they love fresh eggs, but would never keep chickens
because they’re just too filthy.  We like to think that our homemade chicken waterer is part of the solution —
by keeping the floor dry and the waterer from filling with poop, the Avian Aqua Miser makes chicken care much more
palatable.  But the chickens’ overall living conditions are also
key.



That’s why I was so glad
to see photos coming in from folks like Jennifer Engborg.  Her
coop looks nearly pristine, from the screened off windows (plenty of
light but no predators) to the wood shaving coated floor. 
Actually, I wouldn’t mind living in that chicken coop….