As drinkers for chickens often use buckets, pots, bowls and other utensils. Their minus – open surface, causing the water quickly becomes dirty.
You can buy waterers at the store or market. But many poultry lovers do drinker for chickens with their hands.
Drinker for chickens with their hands out bottles
A drinking bowl for Chicks can be made from conventional 1,2-5 l plastic bottle. It should be easy to fix horizontally and cut it in several Windows of the same size. The water in this bowl you can pour half the container.
Size of Windows should not be too large. Otherwise, first, chickens will quickly pollute the water, and secondly, the water in the bottle will fit quite a bit.
Automatic drinker for chickens with their hands
Automatic the drinker for chickens with their hands you can make trays (trays) and 5 l plastic bottle.
To the walls of the bath attach the clamps that will hold the bottle. A bottle filled with water is inserted into the clamps down the neck.
The water from the bottle is poured into the tray. While the tub filled, the water in it do not be. As soon as the birds will drink of the water, its volume is again filled up with water from the bottle.
This drinker is very convenient, it is used in many farms.
The main thing you need to pay attention to is the size of the bath. It should not be too broad, and its sides – too low, otherwise the birds will suit in her bathing.
The size of the tray and the receptacle can be varied, depending on the amount of chicken.
Similar troughs can be made from the bowls of small diameter and a three-liter jar.
Automatic nipple drinker for chickens with their hands
In order to make a nipple the drinker for chickens with their handsyou will need a plastic pipe, clamp, nipple, and cap for pipe.
In the tube holes are drilled at a distance of 20-30 cm (diameter 9 mm). Wrapped the nipple with electrical tape and inserted into the holes.
The pipe plug is placed and secured with a clamp. The whole system is connected to the water supply.
Under each nipple to hang capreolata. You can make them from regular plastic bottles.
Nipple drinking bowl for chickens, hand made, is the most perfect among all the self-made water troughs. Moreover, it is extremely durable and will easily last a few years. With the nipple could be other drinkers, easier.
Waterers for chickens out of the bottle
In the lid of a plastic bottle or 5 l flask drill a hole (diameter 9 mm). Screw the nipple into it. Close the bottle cap and cut her bottom. Hang in the chicken coop or in the pen and fill with water.
Of course, these drinkers have a few. Otherwise, some chickens will be left without water or put up a fight.
Drinker for chickens from a bucket
The principle of manufacture is the same as from the bottle. In the bottom of a plastic bucket or tank, drill a few holes (also with a diameter of 9 mm). Screw them to the nipple. Hang the bucket in the chicken coop and pour water. Such drinkers will be able to drink a few chickens.
The number of nipples in the bucket can be increased. For this the circumference of the bucket you need to drill additional holes. They are inserted and drag on the corner the extension cord. On the other side of the extension is mounted the nipple.
Automatic nipple drinkers need to be suspended so that the nipples were not above the heads of chickens. Otherwise they will not be able to drink from them or just did not realize that in front of them drinking.
Like the trough, drinker for chickens with their hands easy to do. Nipple drinkers have long been common in private farms.
Of vacuum drinking bowls watering Chicks. For heating the troughs in the winter you can use an aquarium heater with a thermostat, but it's easier just to insulate coop.
