Hello dear subscribers of the portal Stroy-Shkola.ru. Today we will analyze with you how the drinking bowls for chickens are made by their own hands. This article will be useful in the first place to those who keep the farm at home, namely, planting chickens or another bird. So, let's begin.
Drinker for chickens with their own hands
Drinking bowls for chickens can be divided into three categories:
- Ordinary drinkers.
- Vacuum.
- Nipple.
You can buy them in the store, or you can make them yourself. Consider each category of drinkers in more detail.
Technology for making a regular drinking bowl for chickens
Simplicity( if not to say primitive) of these drinkers is that chickens simply drink water from a special container. It can be a simple basin or bowl, a piece of pipe and so on. Perhaps the most elementary method of supplying chickens with water. It is necessary to put a capacity in the coop with a liquid, it is extremely important that it is not too high - then the chickens can not get it. The advantages of such a drinker can be attributed to the fact that it can be done in a few minutes. But there is also a disadvantage: the drinker can turn over or the birds will swim in it.
Sample of a mass drinking bowl for chickens - photo
In this regard, a drinking bowl made of a pipe is more suitable. Below are the stages of its manufacture.
Step 1. Required materials.
Ordinary drinking bowl( chicken) for chickens
For the hand-made drinking of water from a pipe, we need about two meters of a plastic pipe, the diameter of which is ten centimeters;brackets for fastening;plugs;and, finally, a diversion, through which water will be poured. By the way, on the other side of the drinking bowl, you can install another tap, through which the water will merge.
Plastic pipe serving for water supply
Stage 2.
In the pipe cut through the hole( for this you can use a heated knife or electric jigsaw).Do not forget to process the edges in the process, so that they do not turn out to be sharp. In a certain place we install the brackets and only after that we fix the pipe. If the chickens live in a cage, then you can use the same scheme, but a slightly different mount( it is shown in the picture).
We make fastening for plastic pipe
Pros and cons of
Advantages can be attributed to the fact that you can keep a large number of birds in the yard and drink them at the same time. Moreover, this scheme can be used for turkeys. If desired, you can make it drain rainwater.
But there are also disadvantages. First of all, the drinking bowl is heavily soiled, so it often has to be cleaned with a sponge. In addition, we will have to fork out for the purchase of a plastic pipe( we recall that for the previous variant an ordinary bowl can be found that can be found in any house).
The technology of making vacuum drinkers
The essence of the work of such drinkers is the following: in a special tank there is water, which under pressure does not pour out. As a reservoir, you can use anything, but we will describe the scheme with a three-liter jar, which we install on a special stand.
Video - vacuum drinker for chickens from bottles with their own hands
Materials needed:
- Glass jar.
- Four wooden coasters.
- Bowl.
- And, of course, water.
The installation description is not practical, since this is a fairly simple procedure. You can find out everything you need in the picture.
Sample of the vacuum drinker for poultry
Pros and cons of
The main advantage is that it does not require any special material investment. In addition, the installation is simple, and operation - convenience. But, of course, there are drawbacks. First, you have to buy some materials. Secondly, such a drinking bowl is easy to overturn, and the chickens can climb on it and stain it.
Technology for making nipple drinkers for chickens
This is probably the most expensive option for making drinkers. This is because in the process of work you will need plastic pipes, drop catchers and, accordingly, nipples. One of the most important moments in this case is that you have to understand the essence of the nipple drinker. This can be done using the above picture.
Diagram of nipple drinking bowl for chickens
So, let's get to work.
Step 1.
Connect the required water tanks to the pipe, then put the plug. We mount it in the chicken coop. After this, it remains only to screw in the nipple and the drop catcher.
Stage 2.
Now actually about the catcher itself.they can serve us an ordinary cropped plastic bottle. Its main purpose is that water does not flow in vain, and birds can drink later, when they want.
Video - nipple drinking bowl for the course with their own hands
Pros and cons of
Advantages include the fact that formation of stagnant water is excluded. In addition, you can equip an automatic water supply line - connect the water tank to the water pipe. After that, you do not have to constantly monitor its level in the tank.
Now about the drawbacks. First of all, this is a significant cost. Also, large chickens will be able to climb the structure and simply break it. And this is still some costs.
