Water barrel chicken waterer

Before leaving on a 10-day camping trip, I filled up the water dish for the chickens…and grumbled the entire time. I really wanted some kind of large reservoir…so the online research began! Here’s how I built an automatic chicken waterer.

We have built a LOT of chicken waterers in our years of chicken wrangling. They break, clog, or otherwise just become a pain to deal with. No matter the size, filling it is always irritating. With …

We are new to keeping Chickens and this is what we built after 6 months of research and planning. This coop was inspired by the Wichita "cabin coop" found here on BYC. There was also other inspirations found in book,online and on this forum...

Interesting stuff for the small flock community and the humane big flock community.

I have two designs for making rain barrel waterers. It makes things much easier to water 50 gallons at a time. I will attach links to amazon...

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