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…

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

Chickens love to create a mess while taking water on any domestic farm. Conventional waterers get dirty with contaminating particulates, causing deadly effects.

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...

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!

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

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

PVC pipes to make the food tubes. PVC and these watering cups I ordered on amazon for the gravity fed watering system. My girls love it!

We biuld a geothermal chicken waterer out of scraps we have. No electric heaters this year or the bill. woohoo! #chickens #farming #homestead #offgrid #...