Since the ceiling in this chicken tractor is so low I couldn't hang our automatic chicken waterer from the top the way I usually do. Instead I cut a hole the size of the container in a piece of plywood and mounted it at the appropriate height.

It seems to be working out very well, and is even easier to service due to the fact that you don't need to open the door to access the water.

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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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