Best homemade chicken waterers
Our customers have turned DIY kits into an astonishing number
of efficient and beautiful waterers over the last year. Some of
them won prizes for their efforts (and if you're a chicken keeper, you
should be aware that our automatic
chicken feeder contest
is still in effect until November 16). Others simply shared their
designs for the joy of it.
The photo to the right
shows Robert's
no-perch chicken waterer and the image at the top of
the page is a chicken
waterer that fills automatically from rainfall on the coop roof. (The inventor of the
latter tweaked
his design to work in tractors too.) Meanwhile, Michael
performed an awesome experiment to determine the exact angle at which
our nipples begin to leak.
Other favorite customer
experiments include a
waterer made out
of a five gallon bottle, a funnel
and hose technique
to make our premade
waterers easy to fill from outside the
coop, and a drip
tray so the coop
floor always stays dry even if you 
have
a messy drinker.
Closer to home, Shannon
tentatively determined that our waterers might work for rabbits too, and Mark streamlined our heat
tape bucket waterer to stay thawed down into the teens.
We're looking forward to
seeing more beautiful designs (and chickens) over the next year.
Be sure to stay tuned to our chicken blog or facebook
page if you want to
know about upcoming contests in a timely manner.
| This post is part of our 2012 Chicken Experiments lunchtime series.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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