Never worry about your chickens' food and water again: Introducing the Ultimate Feeder & Waterer
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- If you're like most chicken owners, you probably worry about their food and water. With so much on our plates, it's easy to forget about our feathered friends.
But with the Ultimate Feeder & Waterer, you'll never have to worry about their food and water again! This feeder and waterer allows you to feed and water your chickens from one central location, so you can focus on more important things.
Try the Ultimate Feeder & Waterer today and never worry about their food and water again!
What is your favorite chicken keeping hacks?! Let me know in the comments below!
Do you have a link to those 90 degree things you put into the bucket for their feed?
Not yet but I can work on getting one!
I build my own feeders out of wood (non treated) I am using my 100lb feeder now I have 8 hens now and it lasts about a month. In the summer I use a 5 gal. bucket with the nipple waterers , in the winter I use a 3gal. rubber feed bowl but I put it in an old tire were the hub cap would be. Still it does not stop the water from freezing but it dose slow it down a lot.
Nice! thanks for sharing! sounds like you have a goo set up that works for you!
something to think about. Great video.
Thank you! Just trying to give alternative ideas to farming.
I really like the feeder. It would be nice to have a link to it. Have you thought about getting you own Amazon store? I've got a rooster issue myself and am new to this. There are videos about about dociling a rooster down. Would be nice to have one of those that also shows how to catch the rooster.
Glad you liked it! I would love to but with all the "vendors" on amazon that go in and out of business its hard to add links unless they're the manufacturer. Someday I would love to have a store and be able to make money off youtube/product. But right now my channel is not big enough and I certainly don't have time to manage something like that. I find it hit or miss with roosters. I have never tried to really tame on just normally pick the calmest. The best way to catch chickens/roosters is to grab them in the dark. They are night blind and can't see you coming.
Put ACV (apple cider vinegar) in the waterer's a couple times a week, great for the chickens gut and keeps algae out.
Good to know! I will have to try that next year!
Did you drill a small hole in the top of the lid for the waterer? I did that and they all
Leaked.
Yes I did so that it wouldn’t create a vacuum and prevent water into the cups. This style waterer used a gravity shut off valve for each cup to stop water flow. Do you have the same type? Sounds like yours may need vacuum or they have a bad seal.
I enjoy learning about your system here and I subscribed for more of what you are doing. I have chickens and want bees. However, I notice that UA-cam says you have published 145 videos but only 15 are showing up on your channel. Do you have any idea what this is? Has YT made a mistake with the number of video or are they being hidden for some reason?
My favourite hack would be getting rid of these roosters but I really try hard to keep a no-kill coop, lololol. I tried keeping Lavender Orpingtons but these roosters are disgustingly vicious and the hens only lay about four months out of the year so far. I have factory hens also.
Thank you for the comment! YT must be counting my YT shorts with the normal videos, as I started my channel with shorts of hacks and cow facts. Roosters are definitely a annoying factor of having straight run. We had to butcher a few before they killed our hens and the "calmer" two we kept are hit or miss if they are going to attack us or not. You can always add a heat/sun lamp in the coop for 12 hours a day to increase egg production.
Their coops all have a large glass skylights and greenhouse runs the summer time of the year so they get all the sunlight that is available. It rises about 7:15 and sets about 4:30 right now, about 9 hours but in September when they stopped laying, the sun rose about 6:00 and set about 8pm. 14 hours I don't honestly know what is going on but I have theories. I've been a chicken keeper for the better part of 20 years. This isn't normal for chicken keeping. But they here now and I'll be darned if they will have a miserable life. And the factory hens don't stop producing so they make up the difference.@@coldcountryhomesteaders
I do have heat lamps here that I use to use for chicks. So maybe I'll try adding light but I also have the florescent lights that I leave on until the horses are fed. That probably adds an extra two or three hours of artificial light to the 'coops' which were box stalls for horses. Their winter coops are in a big insulated, heated stable with lots of large box stalls, lots of light and I'm not interested in having boarders so the birds have lots of room to run and play hide-n-seek during the day. But they have stalls with roosts and laying boxes for the nights.
weird! certainly good to have a mix for guaranteed eggs but it sucks you're not getting the production from the others. I hope you can figure it out though!
Sounds like they should have plenty of light and warmth then! normally adding some heat and 12 hours of light help them produce more in the winter but it sounds like they should be in good shape.
where can you buy these ? thanks
If you look up chicken cup waterer and chicken bucket feeder you can find them!
Keep in mind Winter may change your needs.
I use two water buckets in Winter and replace one in the morning.
These are the best though.
However, if your chickens are in a small space, they may knock the bowls, so you'll want nipples instead of these things.
Thanks for the advice and I certainly did make them at the end of season as I already have to swap them out for a winter waterer.
@@coldcountryhomesteaders what do you use for a winter waterer?
I'm still looking for ideas instead of swapping buckets.
I’m not done with it yet. But I’m making a pvc waterer with holes in the top/side for them to drink out of. So most of it is sealed to keep in warmth. Then I’m connecting a hose to one end and a drain line on the other for a constant flow system. We are very fortunate with a lot of springs that run year around so all of our waterer for the cows and horses are constant flow and very rarely freeze.
I have been looking for a solar powered heated waterer with ZERO luck, has anyone on here seen anything solar or even battery powered heated waterer?
I know I have looked around and haven't had any luck either. Most of the time its buying a solar panel, batter, etc and making a full on power source and then hooking up a heater for it.
a small plastic ball floating on top will help keep the water moving but geothermal is how the old-timers did it back when....dig a hole deeper than the frost line (4+ feet) and put a black tuff bowl on top, you can make a box on top of the hole and use straw for insulation (to block off anything falling down the hole as well)
Thanks for sharing! You could also fill the plastic ball with salt water. I’ve heard this works well but haven’t tried it. Or use a plastic water bottle/jug
Your spouts are upside down I think.
How will you keep rodents out?
If you mean the feeders, these reduce the feed waste around the feeder and limit the feed surface area that can be reach which both will help with rodents. Then the chickens and barn cats help with the rodents on top of that.
is that where you keep your chickens?! So you basically don't want to care for them.....if your goal is just eggs, you should buy them from someone who does want to take care of the birds better than you do.
This is our chicken tractor we had just brought in from pasture…. I guess some of us prefer our chickens to have unlimited food and water. Do you let your chickens run out of food and water? Don’t you let your chickens out to pasture?
@@coldcountryhomesteaders My chickens free range on 5 acres of pasture full time behind an electric fence. I also use food grade buckets for water collection and they eat sprouted grains mixed into the soil in their covered run to provide a constant supply of fresh sprouts and grasses beside the pasture, orchard, and compost piles they enjoy.
I now sell farm fresh pampered chicken eggs to people that want to eat healthy eggs without confining too many in an inadequate environment for their own needs.
Yter's that love to tell others what to do yet hate constructive criticism should learn to not be so snarky when they using hardware store buckets as feeders likes it a "good thing"
That is not constructive, telling someone they shouldn’t do something because it does fit “your standards.” Also we can’t free range due to predators so we use a chick tractor on 16 acres. There will always be higher standards like why you don’t have heated nesting box’s and coop or have 100 acres with an overhead netting. You always say they free range full time and then say you have a run so which is it? So why put others down for trying to build up a better way of life? I guess according to you I should buy from the grocery store. Farming is a live and learn process as every circumstance is different. We are working on building up instead of tearing others down. I’m also not trying to tell anyone how to do anything but providing ideas of what we are trying so others can learn with us. But I do want to say I think what you are doing is a great service to your community providing farm fresh eggs but a poor business plan to tear down others trying to do the same
@@coldcountryhomesteaders You can also just do what you do and actually have experience to share as a better way to be without using supplies demeaned by regulation standards, not my own, as not food grade then put food and water in them.
Do you think doing a video showing how to free range chickens that get attacked by predators is ok...no, you wouldn't because you have "standards" and "experience" with that to share. I have my own experience that doesn't look like too many chickens trapped in a pen. My experience knows it is better to have chickens that are treated really well than to have too many that are stressed out and cramped up. They will lay more eggs for a longer time treating them well because using them up, making them ill and throwing them away of they don't "perform" is the only other option.
Constructive criticism is not tearing down it is trying to raise everyone in this hobby/profession up so that we can self regulate rather than have regulations to sell put on US which can happen.
Why don’t you make a video on your set up and share your input on what the “standard” should be? Also you watch UA-cam videos to see other people’s ideas and suggestions so that’s why UA-camrs will tell me what to do or how they do it. It’s the main reason people watch how to videos