I created the rain barrel out of a 4 ft section of 8 inch pvc pipe i got from a local.
Chicken coop rain gutter.
My wife and i saw this setup long before we got serious about chickens.
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A store bought rain gutter screwed to the eave of the coop s roof captures rainwater.
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Next we fashioned a self watering system from the rain barrel to the coop.
The water then goes through a downspout into a 35 gallon plastic cistern with a tap.
To collect water from the gutter down spout i glued a short section of the down spout.
Then we drilled a hole through the coop wall and fed the hose through it.
With that experience in mind we set out to build an easy affordable and quick to put together rain water chicken waterer.
This system comes with gutters install straps downspout deluxe 4 port 50 gallon rain barrel and food safe pvc horizontal nipple watering bar with barrel connecting hose.
Here is a quick how to tour and demo of my chicken coop rainwater harvesting system.
Rain barrel and chicken trough waterer step 1.
Once the spigot is opened and the float is adjusted the bowl gravity fills with water to a set level keeping the waterer from ever having to be manually.
This keeps the water from flowing down and soaking into the wood and allows it to drop cleanly into the rain gutter splash block.
Inside the coop we attached the hose to an automatic pet watering bowl a stainless steel bowl with a float.
It s pretty simple to build using inexpensive pvc pipe and some roof fla.
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He and his family use this rainwater to refill their chickens waterers.