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Post by woodyz on May 24, 2012 17:47:22 GMT -7
Today we got the last parts of our self watering system for or rabbits , chickens and quail. We put a couple of 30 gallon barrels inside the coop up next to the roof. Then ran and input to the barrels from a hose. We have a toilet tank water valve in the barrels so they stay filled. We run a plumbing system over the cages and down into them with pvc pipe and watering nipples made for birds and rabbits. Each run has a ball valve on the end so we can shut off the input and drain and flush the lines to clean them or if we have a freeze (maybe three times a year) Now all of the fowl and rabbits have fresh water all the time and we don't need to do any thing but collect eggs every day and fill feeders about every three days. We were spending two hours a day cleaning and filling water jars. No pressure needed, its all gravity fed
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Post by thywar on May 24, 2012 18:30:44 GMT -7
Now that's a great system.. did you take any pictures for us to see?
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Post by ncguy on May 24, 2012 18:51:31 GMT -7
thats kinda like what dad and me had when we had show rabbits we used 5 gal bucket with black plastics tubbing and dew drop ends. worked good for us when it froze it didn't take long for it to thaw out.
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Post by woodyz on May 24, 2012 19:18:04 GMT -7
Now that's a great system.. did you take any pictures for us to see? I'll see about taking some pictures tomorrow, then I'll have to figure out how to put them on here. I forget what I had to do to re-size the last time. |
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Post by offtrail on May 24, 2012 19:30:28 GMT -7
Sounds like a great setup do you have to worry about algae building up in the tanks? Anything to make chores easier makes sense to me thanks for sharing ;D
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Post by woodyz on May 25, 2012 18:44:32 GMT -7
Sounds like a great setup do you have to worry about algae building up in the tanks? Anything to make chores easier makes sense to me thanks for sharing ;D We add a little fish clarifier to the water barrels for algae we also add some meds and vitamins we used to put into the water jars. The system is sealed so I don't worry about algae too much. When we were cleaning jars for each water time we kept a barrel of water to dip them, then clean with a bottle washer, then refill. We started having some algae and mosquito larva in the open barrel. So we got a couple of small gold fish from the bait store and no more algae or larva. |
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Post by woodyz on May 29, 2012 13:21:46 GMT -7
Pic of water system Attachments:
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Post by woodyz on May 29, 2012 13:23:31 GMT -7
the barrel
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Post by woodyz on May 29, 2012 13:24:42 GMT -7
the barrel Attachments:
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Post by cajunlady87 on Jul 22, 2017 15:25:55 GMT -7
Well the pics of the water barrels are gone but his great idea is still posted. Woodyz I didn't have to look far to find one of your great posts to bump. You're really highly intelligent and a great asset to this forum. Keep up the good work!  |
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Post by thywar on Jul 22, 2017 18:15:31 GMT -7
Pics showed up for me. Still great ingenuity
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Post by missasip on Jul 23, 2017 6:41:50 GMT -7
Pics showed up for me. Still great ingenuity Yep me too. Had to click on the attachment thingy.... Jimmy |
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Post by woodyz on Jul 23, 2017 12:12:11 GMT -7
Still using that system today, except now the valve is in a cistern behind the chicken house. The 220 gallon run off barrels drain through 1" black pipe down hill to the 30 gallon elevated barrel which runs over into a drain that runs into a sealed cistern 500 gallons through a filter
to another 500 gallon cistern where the toilet valve stops the flow in as long as the cistern is full. AS I said in another post I can pull from the last cistern with a pump to a secondary water pressure tank if I need to, but mostly its in case of fire. I have a gas powered water pump and the cisterns are at the tree line about 70 yards from the house
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Post by cajunlady87 on Jul 23, 2017 19:52:18 GMT -7
Still using that system today, except now the valve is in a cistern behind the chicken house. The 220 gallon run off barrels drain through 1" black pipe down hill to the 30 gallon elevated barrel which runs over into a drain that runs into a sealed cistern 500 gallons through a filter to another 500 gallon cistern where the toilet valve stops the flow in as long as the cistern is full. AS I said in another post I can pull from the last cistern with a pump to a secondary water pressure tank if I need to, but mostly its in case of fire. I have a gas powered water pump and the cisterns are at the tree line about 70 yards from the house Wow, that is one heck of an upgrade. Your chickens will never die of thirst. |
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Post by wildflower on Jul 23, 2017 23:09:39 GMT -7
Incredible system. We used to have lic watered for our beagles. They worked great.
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