Water for chickens

Making a DIY chicken waterer out of recycled materials is not only an eco-friendly choice but also a smart way to ensure your poultry has constant access to fresh water. This guide provides a step-by-step approach to making one, emphasizing the use of materials you likely already have. By opting for a homemade solution, you're choosing sustainability and customization, tailoring the waterer to your flock's specific needs. This homemade chicken waterer guide will walk you through the process…

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...

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.

Discover my top tips for keeping chicken water cleaning fresh to keep your backyard flock happy and healthy.

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.

Have you been worried about how to keep your chicken’s water from freezing without electricity this winter? Here's 5 proven ideas to keep your hens hydrated.

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!

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

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

On a homestead you learn pretty quickly that efficiency is key. If you don't find streamlined ways to do things you will constantly be running fixing little things and never have time for the bigger