Chicken waterer

Lots of people will tell you raising chickens is fun but most of us want to keep it as simple as possible. Maintaining the coop and keeping their food and water up and clean can be a challenge.

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.

A full tutorial on how to make a DIY chicken waterer and feeder from a 5-gallon bucket. Quick, easy, and only cost you $1.

If you're like us and don't want to use electricity in the chicken coop, or can't, this has helped to keep our chicken water from freezing!

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

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

This DIY chick waterer will work for your chicks or full grown chickens. You just need a couple of items and a 5 gallon bucket!

With a few inexpensive supplies you can make a heated chicken waterer so they stay hydrated even in the winter cold. #Instructables #outside #coop #animals #pets #homesteading #farming

Last winter, we tested a bunch of ways to keep our hen’s water from freezing and found a method that worked better for us than anything else out there. In fact, it’s nearly foolproof, at least for us it was!

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