Self watering chicken waterer

This is a rainwater catchment system located on a predator-resistant chicken coop. It saves a lot of time, effort, energy, and money.

Chickens will drink dirty water containing poop, pine shavings and debris. But they really do prefer to consume clean water and will drink more of it, if it....

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 keep our chickens in big cages to keep them safe from predators and so we have an easy time finding the eggs. One of the biggest hassles...

This is probably my favorite project on the homestead so far - a rain catchment, automatic chicken waterer! It took less than an afternoon of work and now I'll never have to haul water out

PVC Chicken Waterer: An easy way to keep your flock watered and not have a mess with overturned water containers!

Over the past year, my wife and I tried our hand at raising backyard chickens for eggs. We had a lot of fun, and learned a lot along the way, until our little chicken experiment came to an abrupt end shortly before the new year. A predator (our research leads us to believe it was a raccoon or weasel) found a way inside the coop one night and killed the entire brood. Since we don't plan to immediately acquire new chickens, I have decided to shut-down the website I started to chronicle our…

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 …