Feeders, drinkers, nest: from the fact that at hand

In chicken feeders traditional designs is an eternal problem: chickens wake no less grain than eat. Inefficient use of food - it is one more trouble, the second: to wake up uneaten foodattract mice and rats. Feeders made of PVC-pipes can help to save feed and reduce access to it rodents. For their manufacture are excellent corrugated drainage or sewer pipes.

It's very simple: set the vertical pipe with a rounded bottom tap filled with food, and the top flap closed. At the end of the feeding cover it is closed and the lower opening. Feeders are located high enough so you do not have to worry about pollution and food impurities. There is no need to fill up continuously feed in the trough: filled up to the top tube itself will "deliver" it!

Another version of "charges" feeders easily made from plastic buckets and containers for drinking water from the cooler. How does this design, it is clear from the photo.

Nests for laying hens from buckets and tires

There are many successful and cost structures

nests for laying hens. One simple and convenient options used by farmers in the United States - of the jack 5-gallon (18-20 l) plastic buckets of paint or mortars. Bucket bottoms are attached to the wall coop - it is done in the bottoms of the two holes in the shape of a keyhole, for which the nests are suspended on the screw heads. Thus, a simple structure and easily removable.

But the farmers' family of Colorado used as nests for hens tractor tire. Turned nest "two stories". Along the edges of nests originally intended wall to prevent loss of eggs, but chickens prefer to nest closer to the middle, so that the additional wall is not needed.

Troughs of a plastic box

Purchasing the house clean, fresh water - the constant care of the house owner. Everyone who keeps chickens, know how to get dirty drinkers. A great option Autodrinking not need constant cleaning, made of a plastic box with a lid for storing things or toys, and a valve for the toilet tank.

The walls of the box bore holes of this diameter to the chicken could easily pass my head and get access to water. Through the opening in the end wall sealingly mounted a valve which is connected to the water supply system. The valve is adjustable so that drinking bowl filled with water by approximately three quarters.

On FORUMHOUSE actively discussed chickens content, their breed, embodiments henhouse device. You might be interested in an article on how to diagnose and treat diseases of chickensAnd a video about the construction design the chicken coop.

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