Fowlvisions.com has an interesting picture of an automatic chicken waterer one can build from scrap material in 5 minutes or less.

This might be fine for small chicks who aren't strong enough yet to knock it over, but once those little chickens start growing up they're curiosity increases and eventually the clown of the group will get out of hand one day and spill everybody's water all over the pretty wood chips.

For just 15 bucks(shipping included) they could have ordered a do it yourself kit from us and installed an Avian Aqua Miser in about the same amount of time it took to throw a 2 liter plastic bottle into a mixed nut container.

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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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