Keeping poultry in the yard requires not only basic veterinary skills, but also some simple devices like a drinker. This article will tell you how to make a drinker for chickens.
- Manufacturing features
- How to make a drinker from a plastic bottle
- Use garden hose
- We produce a drinking bowl from a plastic bucket
- Nippelnaya drinking bowl do it yourself
Manufacturing features
Fresh water is necessary for both young animals and adult chickens. During the growth period, chicks consume liquids twice as much as feed.. Adult chickens may unwittingly engage in "sabotage" - a powerful broiler will easily overturn a small saucepan, and it is undesirable to dilute dampness in a room.
A simple solution - installation of drinking bowls. Such devices are of several types, depending on the material. The easiest way to purchase such a device in the store, but the homemade versions will not yield the factory ones. For an experienced owner, a drinking bowl for chickens is not a secret.
Getting started, remember the main requirements for this tank.It should be stable and small in volume (so that the water does not stagnate). Another important moment for the chicken coop - tightness. Water should not be poured, and chickens - rinse her feet.
Main material for manufacturing - plastic. In the course are bottles, pipes of different diameters and even small buckets. Practical "water pipes" are also obtained from garden hoses. Often use vacuum drinkers with liter cans. True, they are suitable except for small chickens, who are not able to turn over the container.
In this regard, many are interested in - and how do chickens relate to a drinker for chickens, how to teach them? It's simple: such containers are advised to use from the first days. Juveniles see where the water comes from and get used to using such "equipment". The situation with nipple systems is a bit more complicated - some chicks do not understand where the moisture comes from. This is decided by replacing the drip cups. Adult chickens usually do not have such problems. Being in the herd, even the slowest individuals can see where the others are drinking from and go there.
There is nothing tricky in the manufacture of such devices. Consider what are homemade drinkers for chickens.
How to make a drinker from a plastic bottle
This is the easiest option, requiring a minimum of tools and time. Two bottles and a bowl are taken, and a knife, a screwdriver and screws are taken from the tools. The manufacturing process looks like this:
- From a larger bottle, make something like a bowl (cut off the top about 5 cm from the cap);
- Screw a smaller bottle to it from inside with screws;
- At a distance of 5 to 10 cm from the throat of a smaller container with a knife, punch small holes. The main thing - that they were no higher than the level of the bowl.
- Then water is poured into the tank, the drinking bowl turns over and is placed on the frame. Alternatively, it is possible to screw the container “dry” to the walls of the bowl with self-tapping screws, and only then fill it.
- In a large bottle an awl is punched with a hole (15-20 cm from the bottom);
- Cover them with your hand, dial in a bowl of water;
- After this new container is placed in a bowl. The water will go out through the hole, and its level will be regulated (the liquid goes to the bowl as it descends).
Use garden hose
Such containers are also called drip. They also differ in simplicity.
- One end of the hose is bent into a loop, giving the shape of a drop. The second is fixed on the crane.
- The hose is suspended at a convenient height for the bird and carefully drilled small holes. When the tap is turned on, water will be supplied to the prepared cups by the drop method.
This drip drinker for chickens, as you can see, is extremely simple to make with your own hands. She also reduces the risk of arranging a "swamp" in the room.
We produce a drinking bowl from a plastic bucket
In each compound there will surely be an old bucket. Do not rush to throw it away, it can turn out to be a good water tank.
The simplest option is to do this: the bucket is filled with water, after which it is covered with a basin or a large bowl and turned over. For greater reliability on the rim of the pelvis let the wire, which then starts up over the bucket.
Plastic buckets (especially from under the paint) have a rigid lid that can be used for another “modification” of a self-made drinking bowl for a bird. Here you will need another tank, and its diameter should exceed the circumference of the bucket itself:
- drill bucket rim under the lid;
- fill the container with water and cover;
- Place the inverted bucket on the pallet.
Nippelnaya drinking bowl do it yourself
Such systems have a number of "pluses". The main advantage is the adjustment of the water supply (fluid goes if the valve is open). With this dosage reduces the risk of infection of birds, because the dirt does not settle in the water inside the pipe. Let's add here economy, autonomous giving and maintainability (at the expense of threaded connections).
Nipple type drinker for chickens is great for farms with large livestock - from 1 meter system "served" 30 - 40 chicks.
Having decided to establish a similar "watering place", prepare the necessary materials:
- square meter plastic pipe square (22 × 22 mm);
- nipples - a round-type type 3600 (feed from top to bottom) is suitable for chickens, 1800 is recommended for adult chickens (feed from top to bottom);
- trays or micro cups (same quantity as nipples);
- flexible hose;
- plug;
- square-circle adapter.
How to make a nipple drinker yourself:
- We mark on the pipe space for the holes under the nipples. Consider the optimum distance within 20 - 30 cm. The side of the pipe is drilled with internal grooves;
- A thread is cut into the holes, after which nipples that are treated with Teflon tape are inserted. Remove shavings;
- One of the edges of the pipe is put "on the cap"
- The second edge is connected to the hose from the water tank (ideally it is a plastic tank);
- Fix the pipe itself at a convenient height for the birds, install trays.
- A 9 mm hole is made in the plastic bottle cap with the same drill and the nipple is put;
- The bottom of the bottle is cut, she herself (along with the cap) is suspended. Everything, it is possible to put a tray and fill in water.
Such rather complex devices for drinking birds for the home, collected by themselves, have their own nuances in the operation. This concerns height - it is regulated depending on the age of the hens.Monitor the state of the water and the system itself. Experienced poultry farmers put filters (with cells of at least 0.15 mm). If the drinker is strongly bent, immediately correct it, otherwise the water will go into the tray with interruptions. Head adjustment also plays a role.
Another common question is how to teach chickens to nipple drinkers. They quickly learn this principle, especially when such a supply of water has been practiced since the early days. The chicken sees where the moisture is coming from and quickly gets used to drinking from the tray. With "older age" is somewhat more difficult, but adult chickens are getting used to this method. The main thing is to provide access from both sides.
In addition to the above, there is another type of drinkers. It is also simple and actively used in farms. In the section of a plastic pipe of large diameter, with an equal gap, large holes are made (so that the bird can stick the beak). Water is poured through a plastic bend at one end of the pipe. Well, on the other hand is a stub.
Having seen all the variety of designs, their simplicity and cheapness, we found out that there is nothing wrong with the drinking bowl being homemade, no. Anyone can make it.
