Chicken rain water system

One of their latest projects has been to build an automatic chicken waterer, which consists of a large barrel for water collection, a sturdy stand, and a commercial water bowl.

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.

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

Almost - Completed Chicken Palace or as my wife calls it the "Chilton" Chicken Dance Floor (makes it easier to clean out by using lino tiles). We found these at Habitat for Humanity. We covered these with sand now. Rainwater return...

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.

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