Beautiful do-it-yourself waterers for garden birds. Homemade decorative drinkers for poultry and wild birds

We are glad to meet you again, dear readers. Today we will tell you how to make a waterer for chickens with your own hands at home. Photos and videos are attached.

It should be taken into account that chickens' water consumption is twice as large as the amount of feed consumed in one day, so drinking bowls must be made with sufficient water capacity. This will maintain adequate water balance, which ensures normal growth.

They are constantly trying to get into the water, taking this into account, it is necessary to choose a device that will prevent a dangerous moment. Wet chicken legs will lead to colds, and quickly contaminated water can cause infections, especially in chickens!

The amount of water a chick should consume depends on many situations:

• Ambient temperatures.
• Age of the bird.
• Amount of food eaten per day.

Each individual should have an average of at least half a liter of water to avoid dehydration.

To organize a high-quality and proper watering place, you need to choose an original idea. All the diverse options for drinking birds can be divided into the following groups:

Simple drinking bowls from ordinary enameled and galvanized basins and buckets or plastic bowls:

1. Cup (drip).
2. Vacuum.
3. Siphon.
4. Automatic water supply using nipples.
5. Drinker made of plastic pipe.
6. A simple drinking bowl made from a plastic bucket.

Simple containers are very inconvenient. You will have to frequently change the water or top up the bowl, since in an open container the liquid evaporates quickly. Birds can easily overturn the dishes and be left without water. You need to constantly monitor this and add water in a timely manner.

It is advisable to use shallow open bowls for water only to water the chickens, but at this moment you need to carefully monitor the process, the water should not spill out.

Plastic bottle for drip drinker? Easily!

Drinker for chickens from a plastic bottle

Plastic is a common material that can be used to make various bird gadgets. A homemade plastic drinker is suitable for ordinary young animals and broilers; its installation does not take much time or cost.

When arranging a drinking regime for poultry, it is necessary to take into account that the drinking bowls made are convenient for all ages of chickens and hens.

Tools and necessary materials to use:

1. A plastic shallow bowl so the chickens can drink from it freely.
2. A screwdriver.
3. With screws.
4. Cutting tool.

How to make a waterer for chickens with your own hands from a plastic bottle? Take a 2.5-liter plastic bottle, 15 cm away from the neck of the flask, and make a puncture with an awl to create a through hole. Cut off the bottom of the flask with a sharp knife, so you can then pour water into it.

Attach the stopper of the bottle with a fastening element to the bottom of the bowl. Fill the bottle with water, now water will begin to flow into the bowl from the punctured holes. When the liquid reaches the edges of the bowl, the water stops pouring out. A tray should be placed in front of the bottle for the chicks to drink from the bowl comfortably.

Vacuum drinking bowl for chickens made from plastic flasks

Requirements for a vacuum device consisting of two plastic flasks.

To prevent garbage from getting into the water for birds, we make a do-it-yourself chicken drinker that is convenient for chickens, laying hens and broilers:

• The drinking bowl must be a closed device.
• Convenient access to watering holes for chickens and hens.
• The container with water in the poultry house should not turn over and break in the event of a possible attack by birds.

The design of a vacuum drinking bowl from two plastic flasks is very easy to make!

Take a plastic flask with a volume of six liters and cut off the cork along the first corrugation on the surface of the flask, you will get the appearance of a bowl. Select a smaller 2.0 liter plastic bottle, turn it upside down and insert it into the bowl. Using a drill with an 8 mm drill bit, make holes on both covers. Secure the two caps of both bottles connected with two bolts.

Use an awl to pierce the smaller bottle, moving 10 cm away from the cork, maybe a little higher. Fill a smaller flask with water until punctured. Take a bowl from a large bottle and screw it onto the smaller container on top, then turn it over. Water from the punctures will begin to flow into the bowl. As soon as it is full, the water will stop pouring, and when the level in the bowl drops, liquid will again flow through the small holes.

To prevent chickens from overturning the drinking device, it should be secured to the wall. From a wire or metal profile of a tape, roll a ring along the diameter of the flask and hang it on the wall. Secure the flask to the wire with clamps. Install a stand for the chickens at the drinking bowl; they should easily climb onto the landing board. With such a drinking bowl, where you can see how much water is left in the flask, the chickens will not be left without drinking.

DIY siphon drinker for chickens

Siphon water supply. Where the number of chickens and hens is small (about 10 pieces), it is very beneficial to use a siphon drinker. To make it you need a siphon system. To make such a design you will need:

1. Plastic bowl with shallow sides.
2. Five liter plastic flask.

Take the bottle and drill at the very bottom. The hole in the bottle should not be higher than the side of the bowl, so as not to overflow. Place the flask in the prepared bowl, and with your finger closed, pour water to the top. Water will rush sharply from the opening of the flask, but its flow will stop at a certain level of the sides of the bowl. When the space between the walls of the bowl and container is filled, the water level will remain above the holes.

After the chickens start drinking water, the liquid in the bowl will decrease, the hole in the wall of the flask will begin to fill with air, the air pressure will change, and the bowl will be filled with water again. Five liters of water for 10 chickens per day is enough.

The liquid will drain from the bowl, and the punctures will gradually begin to fill the bowl. The design of the siphon liquid supply is not a thorough design, so drinkers with nipple liquid supply have replaced it.

DIY nipple drinker for chickens

Automatic water supply through nipples. Automatic water supply using nipples is an example of an economic indicator in compliance with hygienic standards in a poultry house.

The form of the nipple system for watering birds has become widespread. You can use any container for drinking, a large bucket with nipples inserted into the base; they turn on when the chickens start drinking.

The simplest nipple-shaped drinker is a bucket that is suspended and several nipples are screwed into the bottom. It needs to be made of large plastic. Drill the bottom, make four holes so that they have a diameter of 9 mm, screw the nipples there.

Place the bucket at the desired height and fill with water. This drinker is easy to clean, but you will need to fill it by hand. A nipple bird drinker, which is connected to a water supply or a large-volume mounted boiler, is in great demand.

You should prepare in advance the materials and tools that will be required for the work:

Take a square or round plastic pipe for automatic nipple feeding, so that there are grooves inside, with a wall thickness of 22 by 22 mm. Plugs at the end and adapters for connecting to the water supply.

1. Flexible tube for eyeliner.
2. Hang the pipe using clamps.
3. Use a 9 mm drill.
4. Use a tap to cut a 1/8-inch thread.

Work order.

Before starting work, you need to decide on the supply of parts and calculate everything. First you need to mark the pipe. Make marks under the nipples with a gap of up to 15 cm between them. Using a screwdriver or drill, from the side where the internal grooves are located in the pipe (to prevent water from leaking, use Teflon tape), drill holes in which to cut threads using a tap. Close the ends.

Install a plug on one end of the pipe, and put an adapter for a flexible tube on the other. Now you should put the nipples in place. Then connect the hose to a water tap or boiler with a large volume of water.

The strength of the structure is ensured by reliable fastening to the wall. It should not leak; all joints and connections are sealed using special tape. The use of a chicken drinker with a nipple form of liquid supply is the most practical and convenient system.

Security measures

High-quality, comfortable drinkers for chickens should be safe and not injure the birds’ beaks. You should maintain safety in the chicken coop. Drinkers should be made of high-quality plastic material. It is not allowed to make a metal container with burrs to avoid injury to the bird.

When making drinkers for chickens, hens, and broilers, the edges of the drinker must be carefully processed so that the birds cannot get hurt. The edge of the bowl should be smooth or have a rubber rim around it.

There are safety measures in winter. There must be protection to prevent water from freezing in cold weather. You can provide heat by making a heating element, which must be placed under a container of water, or by using an aquarium heater.

Drinker made of plastic pipes

This DIY chicken waterer is on the portal about construction and repair. As a rule, all ingenious inventions are distinguished by their simplicity. This can also be said about the use of plastic pipes to make drinking bowls. There are many advantages of such drinking bowls for chickens - first of all, they are simplicity of design, low cost of materials and reliability. Let's look at the step-by-step process of making a drinking bowl from plastic pipes.

Step 1. For the drinking bowl you will need a plastic pipe. In this case, a 1.5-meter pipe with a diameter of 15 cm is used. A plug is installed at one end, and a bend is installed at the other. Using a building level, draw a straight line on the pipe (on both sides of the level) with a marker.

A line is drawn on the pipe.

Step 2. Next you will need a small rectangular block. Use it to make marks for future holes, as shown in the figure. Mark with a cross those parts that do not need to be cut, or vice versa, so as not to make a mistake and not damage the pipe.

Marks for future holes. Step 3. Make small holes along the edges of the marked rectangle with a drill or screwdriver. To prevent the drill from jumping off, you can first make a small indentation with a nail or awl.

Drilling holes in accordance with the markings.

Step 4. After making the holes, use a jigsaw to cut out the desired shape on the surface of the pipe. All resulting irregularities at the cut site must be treated with sandpaper.

Using a jigsaw for cutting.

Step 5. After cutting all the necessary holes, install special clamps or latches, which you then attach to the wooden stand. You shouldn’t skimp on these elements so that you don’t have to pay twice later. After this, the finished structure can be placed on the ground, and water can be added through the bend.

Installation of clamps.

A simple do-it-yourself drinking bowl for chickens from a bucket

If you don’t want to go to a lot of trouble making a waterer or spend money on special devices, then make your own waterer for chickens from an old bucket (necessarily a whole one).

Step 1. Holes are cut in the bottom of the bucket

Step 2. Then screw on a cover like this

There are certain recommendations that must be followed to protect the structure from contamination. First of all, when making a drinker and choosing materials, make sure that the upper edge of the structure is flush with the back of the chickens being raised. You can also connect two structural elements using aluminum wire or strong rope for convenience.

On a note! Depending on the temperature in the chicken coop or the feed used, the dimensions of the drinking bowl may vary. For example, if the room temperature does not drop below +18 degrees, then the volume of water in the device should not be more than 300 ml. Based on this, you can decide what size drinking bowl you need.

Homemade waterer for chickens with your own hands from a jar.

You can also make a simple drinking bowl in another way. To do this, take a paint bucket and a tray from a flower pot. You just need to make sure that the size of the pallet is larger than the bucket itself. Approximately 1 cm from the lid, you need to make a small hole in the container and its rim.

After this, pour some water into the bucket and close the lid. Then carefully, placing the inside of the tray on the lid, turn the bucket of water over. Gradually, water will accumulate in the pan, coming from the two holes made. Once the liquid level reaches the holes, water will not flow out. When the birds drink water from the drinking bowl, the pan will be replenished again.

Video - How to make a nipple drinker for chickens

Drinking bowls for chickens photo

Over the weekend, while watering the beds at the dacha, I noticed how two birds were bathing in the splashes of water from the watering hose, right in the place where the latter had the temerity to leak. More precisely, it was not the hose itself that leaked, but the connection of its two parts. Apparently the birds were so hot that they allowed them to approach almost 3 meters and did not fly away, although in a normal situation this distance was never reduced to less than 5-6 meters. They looked at the gathered people with curiosity and continued to splash and drink water, hinting that it was hot now for everyone, not just people.

Almost immediately, my engineering thought began to work towards creating an automatic device, different from a banal cup of water, in which water evaporates faster and splashes more, but at the same time, has a not too complex and cost-intensive design. The materials at hand included plastic bottles of various sizes and volumes, and I chose this material.

I took a round bottle (not square) of 5 liters, in which ordinary drinking water was sold, and a 2-liter bottle of mineral water. The lids of both containers have different diameters; I drilled them exactly in the center, connected them with a bolt and clamped them with two nuts and washers. Bottle caps must be inserted into one another so that the threads of the caps of both the first and the second are on the same side. Then I cut a large bottle (5 l) so that a bowl was formed from the thread to the cut line, and in the bottle (2 l) I made a hole with a diameter of about 1 cm. The distance from the neck of the bottle to the hole in the bottle should be less than the distance from the thread of the bottle to the edges of the bowl of a large baklashka. When I assembled the structure, it looked like this: a drinking bowl.

The essence of this design is that as soon as the water through the hole in the bottle reaches the level of this hole, the bowl will immediately stop filling. If the water decreases, until the water level drops below this hole and the bowl is replenished immediately. In other words, if birds drink water from a bowl, then there will be water in the bowl as long as there is water in the bottle, and there is almost 2 liters of it, and these two liters will not immediately pour out onto the ground and will not evaporate, but will be consumed gradually. All that remains is to fill the drinking bowl with water and secure it to the tree.

At first, the birds were very wary of the new object on their territory. The ubiquitous tits were the first to venture into exploration. First, they examined the “object” from a safe distance, then some of them tried to drink water, and then the party began in full swing. The tits began to drink and swim in the new reservoir. Looking at all this from the side, the nuthatches began to follow the tits. Soon a line formed at the drinking bowl and the usual bird leapfrog began.

In general, this drinker does not require any special costs or effort, and the benefits from it are quite real, the importance of which is quite difficult to overestimate in such weather. After all, that hunger and cold in winter, that heat and drought in summer are all the same for our smaller brothers...

Sergey Smorovoz, hot summer 2010

When choosing a suitable drinking bowl design, it is necessary to take into account the number of birds being served, their breed, size, age and conditions for installing this device. In addition, an important factor is the regularity of maintenance of the chicken coop and the requirements for autonomy of the water supply system. Knowing this information, it is not difficult to select a drinking bowl from existing models, which can be classified according to the methods of water supply.

The simplest and cheapest device is a shallow container installed on the floor, or a special gutter mounted on a wall or fencing mesh. Such devices require regular filling with water and periodic cleaning.

Siphon-type drinking bowls are a vessel turned upside down, the neck of which (or conduit) is lowered into a small flat drinking container. Water flows into it automatically as it is consumed. There are models that are completely ready for installation, as well as inexpensive designs that allow you to use an ordinary plastic bottle as a drinking reservoir. This type of drinker does not require frequent addition of water, but may require periodic cleaning.

The perfect watering hole

The technically advanced and most effective are nipple drinkers for birds. They represent a more complex system, the main components of which are:

• A container of water or connection to a household drinking water pipeline;
• Filtration system;
• A pipe, usually of square cross-section, located in the watering area;
• Nipple type dispensers. When the bird's beak deflects the steel tip (up or in any direction), the valve opens and a small amount of water is supplied. Such drinkers are distinguished by the type of action on the valve lever (180° - up/down, or 360° - the same, plus deviation to the side).

Since it is impossible to ensure that a stream of water reaches the bird’s mouth 100% in the devices, plastic drip collectors are used to avoid excessive moisture around the bird. It is these precise dosing systems that provide birds with water more effectively than others. They are almost always clean and tidy.

When choosing a nipple drinker, you should familiarize yourself with the amount of incoming water and the stiffness of the valve lever. For chicks and young boilers, the force exerted on it should be minimal.

Each specific farm will have its own type of drinking bowl for poultry. Therefore, before purchasing this device, we recommend consulting our specialists. Placing an order on our website will not take much time, and we will help speed up the entire process through prompt delivery to the specified address.

Garden landscape decorations can be not only interesting, original and pretty, but also quite useful. Today we will tell every reader of the site about how to make a birdbath with your own hands, and at the same time create a real masterpiece!

In fact, many people expect from the article something extremely basic, like a drinking bowl made from a plastic bottle, but today we are more interested in a different product, which will require a little more work. Naturally, it will be inexpensive, because if we wanted to buy something like that, we would simply go to a store of original figurines and garden items.

So, be careful, because the next few paragraphs will tell you how to make an original birdbath with your own hands.

Materials for creating a drinking bowl

We start with the selection of materials, and immediately rush to reassure all summer residents, since we only need cement, water, sand, paint, thin plastic film, a piece of old pipe and a leaf of rhubarb or burdock.

The only tools you will need are a grinder; you will also need rubber gloves and a paint brush.

How to make a birdbath yourself

Everything is very simple with us, and we are not going to burden you with too complex “recipes”, since there is an elementary one that is accessible to every summer resident, and it is already in front of you. Our drinking bowl will be made from cement mortar, from concrete, which we repeatedly prepared during construction at the dacha.

Preparing for drinking bowl production

• Initially, we need to find a piece of plywood or chipboard on which we can work. It can be old, previously used material, as long as it is smooth.
• In addition, you will need to mix the cement mortar and make it have a creamy consistency. Try to mix the solution well so that there are no lumps or undissolved material, which will negatively affect the quality of the product.
• Next, actions with a piece of an old pipe, or rather, with two pieces of different diameters. We deepen a piece of pipe of larger diameter into the soil at the place where the drinker is installed, about 30 cm, leaving 20-40 cm of pipe above the surface. From a piece of pipe with a smaller diameter, use a grinder to cut a small piece, approximately 5-8 cm.

Making a drinking bowl from concrete

We lay a plastic oilcloth or a layer of paper on the found surface so as not to smear the wood and spoil it. After this, pour a small pile of sand and stretch it to the shape of a rhubarb leaf, which we need for shaping. Now we lay a plastic film on the sand, and a rhubarb leaf on top of it, and level everything, bringing the drinking bowl into the required shape.

When the preparation is complete, we can fill our mold with cement. It should be poured onto the mold in an even layer and spread with your fingers along the edge of the rhubarb leaf.

Now all that remains is to wait about a day to get a draft version of the drinker.

We still had an unresolved issue with a small piece of pipe, which we cut off with a grinder. So, it is needed in order to embed it in the cement during pouring and molding. Thus, you can get a drinking bowl on a small leg, with the help of which you can install the craft on the first pipe, which we talked about earlier. In addition, an interesting idea is to strengthen the drinking bowl, which can be done by laying a cement mortar with a mounting mesh and tightly embedding it into the material.

Decorative finishing of a homemade drinking bowl

A gray and rough concrete drinking bowl does not look very interesting, and it can easily spoil the aesthetics of the garden if installed there without finishing. Therefore, we propose to take the simplest measures that will help not only protect the material of our work, but also significantly change its external data.

You can sand the drinker a little, paint it with different colors or a single color, cover the top and bottom of the craft with multi-colored paints, give it the shade of a leaf or the main color of your landscape.

There is freedom for your imagination here, however, remember that the paints for the drinking bowl should be chosen non-toxic, so as not to scare away the birds or poison them with decay products.

The simplest do-it-yourself bird drinker (video)

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Dina Avchinnikova 25.01.2014

Brilliant, I would never have thought of this, tomorrow I’ll go to the city for materials, otherwise we raise pheasants for beauty, and we feed them from an old enamel bucket. The only thing that confuses me is the composition of the paint, will it harm the birds? Maybe cover the top with glaze, like on plates that are hand-painted, but I can’t imagine where this is sold.

Oleg Povalov 01/13/2016

The varnish will peel off in any case, so this is probably not the best way :)
As for me, such drinking bowls are only needed for decoration; in practice, it’s unlikely that anything will really work out; we buy drinking bowls for chickens here all the time, like plastic ones, but we’ve never had any problems.

And to solve the problem with environmental friendliness, you can try to cover the surface with good glue and fill it with sand on top, the sand will stick well, and even if it peels, it will not harm the tiles.

Many people raise chickens on their farms. They are easy to care for, and the profit in the form of meat and fresh eggs is quite significant: one bird can produce 15-25 of them. per month. To make caring for your poultry easier, you can make a drinking bowl for chickens with your own hands.

Many people raise chickens on their farms. They are easy to care for, and the profit in the form of meat and fresh eggs is quite significant.

In order for chicken breeding to be profitable, it is necessary to comply with the living and feeding conditions of the birds. It is always necessary to give them fresh water at a rate of at least 0.5 liters per day for each bird.

But this norm is not constant and depends on:

• conditions of detention;
• ambient temperature;
• age of the individual;
• food eaten per day;
• location (yard, chicken coop).

The following requirements apply to drinking bowls:

1. Convenience. The trough or trough from which animals drink must always be filled automatically or manually. They should have free access - both for the birds and for the owner.
2. Sustainability. Any devices can be moved and overturned for various reasons, for example, as a result of a fight between individuals. If the waterer is unstable, the chickens will suffer from thirst, and some may die.
3. Water purity. To ensure this condition, it is advisable to make closed drinking bowls. Open structures are susceptible to infection by microorganisms and contamination (dust, droppings).
4. Safety and strength of the material. The drinking bowl must be made of unbreakable or splinter-free materials. It is not recommended to install metal structures, because such materials sometimes emit toxic fumes when interacting with animal feces. Plastic is usually used, but all edges of the container should be treated to avoid injury.
5. Frost protection. It is advisable to provide water heating in winter using aquarium or homemade heaters.

Drinker for chickens from a plastic bottle (video)

Types of homemade structures

You can buy such devices everywhere, but in many cases their price is high. Masters strive to complete them themselves. There are countless manufacturing options.

All devices for quenching the thirst of animals and birds are divided into the following types:

• nipple - liquid is supplied drop by drop;
• float - a similar mechanism is used in the toilet to shut off the water;
• vacuum - work on the difference between atmospheric and water pressure;
• siphon - similar to vacuum, but a siphon is used to avoid spillage;
• conventional - manually filled from a tap, bucket or hose.

The simplest is a regular bird drinker. It is a basin, a bowl, a small bucket, a trough. The container is placed on the floor, ground or dug into it and filled manually. This type of design has many disadvantages:

• you need to change the fluid approximately 10-20 times a day due to rapid contamination with debris, dust, feathers, and droppings;
• an unsecured container will be overturned by chickens;
• If the drinker is used only for watering chickens, you should make sure that they do not fit into the bowl.

Another device is made from an old rubber hose, a number of small holes are drilled in it and secured 40-70 cm from the floor. Place trays or bowls under the holes. When supplied, the liquid itself fills the containers.

The third thirst quencher can be easily made from long PVC (plastic) pipes. It is advisable to take a caliber of at least 10 cm. You need to cut several elongated holes of 30-40 cm each in the pipe. You need to cut only on one side, longitudinally. The distance between them is chosen at the discretion of the owner. Plugs should be secured at the ends of the pipes.

To ensure quick filling of the device, draining dirty water and flushing, you can provide valves at each end, connect a hose from the water supply to one of them, and connect a 50-caliber drain pipe to the other. This will help semi-automate the homemade product.

It can be secured with ordinary plastic or metal pipe clamps, screwed to the floor. Experienced farmers advise raising them so that the upper edge of the system is at the level of the back of the individual. This reduces the possibility of birds swimming and water pollution.

Float system

The purchased design consists of containers mounted on a horizontal axis. Water is supplied through the hole. As the bowl is filled, it lowers and uses a special nozzle to block the access of water. After emptying, it rises and the liquid flows again.

There are quite a few varieties of this type of device, but it is the drinking cup options that have gained great popularity. Craftsmen have developed many similar systems. These designs are automatic and work the same way as a float system in a toilet:

1. Birds drink from a trough or several troughs filled through pipes, from a bottle (barrel) of water. This container contains a float mechanism connected to the faucet lever. Water from the tap is drawn into the barrel, and as it fills, the float begins to rise along with the water. Moving upward, he turns the handle of the faucet connected to it and closes it at a certain level. When the troughs are emptied by birds, the amount of water in the container will decrease, the float along with the liquid level will go down, the tap will open, and the process will repeat.
2. The float is connected to a bottle or bowl with liquid mounted on an axis parallel to the drinking container. As the liquid level decreases, the float will go down, dragging and turning the cup. Water will fill the trough. Experimentally, you can determine the location of the axis so that when the bowl is full, it is in equilibrium when the drinking container is full and the float is at the top. To prevent the bowl from tipping backwards, a simple stopper is needed. This system is effective for 1-2 hours. After that it is filled again.

Feeder and drinker for birds from a plumbing pipe (video)

Vacuum and siphon designs

In stores you can see many devices that operate on the physical principle of pressure difference. These are vacuum and siphon units. They are easy to make yourself from an ordinary plastic bottle, using your ingenuity. They are lightweight and can be carried and installed anywhere.

A chicken drinking bowl made from a plastic bottle is easy to make. It can be completed in 10-30 minutes. For this you need:

• 2 bottles - large (5-7) and small (3-5 l), respectively;
• deep plate, tray, tray or bowl;
• tripod or any other structure for mounting a portable device.

You can use a photobath or other container as a tray. It can be mounted on a structure made of wire or profiles, and if a stationary device is intended, the bottle can be screwed to perch posts or a wall.

How to make a vacuum device:

1. Attach the pallet to a tripod or other stand.
2. Pour water into it a little below the edge.
3. Cut off the bottom of a large bottle completely and the neck in half.
4. Insert a small container into it so that its neck comes out from the neck of the large one.
5. Make the adjustment - turn both vessels over and place them so that the lid of the small one is at least half in the water.
6. Strengthen the structure at the top of the pallet.
7. Remove the small vessel, fill it with liquid and close the lid.
8. Put it back.
9. Open the bottle.

The drinker is ready for use.

When making a stationary fixture on the wall, the pallet is secured to 2 pins driven into the wall.

The siphon system is designed in almost the same way, only the bottle is not recessed into the tray, and there is a valve with a handle in its neck. Chickens hit it when drinking, and the water replenishes the container.

Nipple option

The method of nipple watering of livestock is considered progressive and popular. The lightest apparatus of this type is made as follows:

• the lid of a bottle (plastic) or the bottom of an ordinary bucket is drilled;
• a nipple is screwed or pressed into the hole;
• Place it in a more comfortable place and fill it with liquid.

The next homemade plastic project is made from PVC pipes. It will require:

• plastic pipe;
• a plug for it;
• screwdriver or drill;
• plastic tie or clamp;
• universal nipples with a working angle of 360°;
• drill with a caliber slightly smaller than the diameter of the nipple;
• sealing tape (waterproofing).

Points are marked in the PVC pipe and holes are drilled every 25-30 cm into which universal nipples wrapped with a special waterproofing tape are inserted. They function not only by moving up and down, but also allow water to pass while in a horizontal position.
Install the entire unit in a convenient place. One end of the PVC pipe is connected to the water supply through fittings, taps and hoses, and a plug is inserted into the second and tightened with ties for reliability.

To avoid water spillage under each functioning hole, it is recommended to strengthen bowls or trays, then the birds will be able to drink not only by hitting the nipple with their beaks, but also from the lower containers.

Frost protection

In frosty winter, cold water is supplied through pipes. Chickens can catch a cold and die. To prevent this from happening, it is recommended to heat the drinking bowls. The cheapest option is to make wooden boxes underneath and place ordinary light bulbs inside, connecting them to the network with a 220 cable in thick insulation, which is better to bury or run under the floor.

A more expensive, but effective way is to install an Ariston-type electric tank for heating water in the chicken coop. Then you won’t have to monitor it - it will work automatically.