Diy chicken waterer for winter

These 20 ways to keep chickens' water from freezing include reliable and maintence free ways to keep water unfrozen at the chicken coop!

It's cold, and times are tough. What's a cash-deficient chicken keeper to do? DIY a chicken water heater of course!

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.

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!

Chickens need access to water year round, but keeping it from freezing can be a challenge in the winter.

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

DIY $5 Heated Chicken Waterer: As soon as the temps drop below freezing, we Minnesota farmers break out the winter gear. My least favorite contraption is the chicken waterer. In the summer, I hook a hose up to drip waterers and never have to think about it all summer. In the wint…

It seems to be a no-duh sentiment, but when you live in a place like Chicago, keeping the water for your

in the winter you've run into the problem of how to keep your chicken water from freezing. Enter the chicken water heater

Here are ten hacks to keep your chickens water thawed this winter (with and without electric) to make winter easier on you and your flock.