I have some very needy chickens. Almost every day their thirst demands that Ian or I refill their poultry waterer. Filling it is a simple enough process but made more complicated because our entire homestead runs on rainwater and all our livestock water comes from giant rain barrels off the side of our house. Walking back and forth from the house to the coop with a cumbersome watering can gets old pretty quick. When we first got our chickens it would take days for them to empty their waterer. Now that they’ve grown to full size and the weather has warmed, they empty it more than once a day.

That’s not a hardship for us, but it’s a lot to ask of a chicken sitter if we leave our homestead for more than a day or two. As it is, our forgetful tendencies have caused both of us to find the waterer bone dry on many an occasion. With hot weather coming soon I’m fearful our forgetfulness could lead to severe dehydration or at least decreased egg production for my ladies. One option is to buy more waterers, but at $50 each they aren’t cheap. Besides, that wouldn’t do much to decrease our work anyways.

A better option? Move the rainwater directly to the chickens by way of an automatic chicken watering system!

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