Monday, September 10, 2012

It has been a hot summer here on the farm...

It has been a while since I have blogged, maybe it is because I have been melting and don't want to do anything but sit in front of the fan :/ but when I do get outside I have to get some love from the sweetest chicken ever, Bernice.  I think she may be Peeps reincarnated :)
One thing that I have been able to work on and get finished is my automatic chicken waterer.  Very excited about this because chickens make such a mess of their waterers that it is a gross chore I had to do twice a day and sometimes more!  But with the automatic chicken waterer they always have 3-4 gallons of clean fresh water.  It all starts on the outside of the coop with this 5-gallon bucket which is the water reservoir for the system.  The water is gravity fed down through the PVC pipe on the side of the coop...
 ...and then into the inside of the coop where it is capped off and 2 drinking nipples are available.
The chickens learned in about 2 days that if they peck at those funny red things then water comes out to drink...they are geniuses ya know ;)  So that is the amazing, time-saving automatic chicken waterer.  A couple less things this farmer has to do every day :)