Winter Watering Chickkens

by jden hollander in Living > Homesteading

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Winter Watering Chickkens

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needed something simple for watering my chickkens without using electricity

Preparing

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you need a bucket a bolt and nuts some rubber and metal rings and a clay flowerpot

Drilling and Cutting

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dril a hole in the bottom of the bucket (same diameter as the bolt) cut the bottom loose from/of the bucket and turn it. You have now a bowl that fits into the bucket when you turn it

Assembling

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push the bold through the bowl bottom use on both sides a rubber and metal ring and thighten them firmly so its waterthight

Assembling the Clay Flowerpot

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assemble the clay pot first a nut over the bolt, to ensure some little distance between claypot and bucketbowl bottom for the claypot gets very hot. Then a metal ring to make sure the hole in the claypot is closed too. Then the claypot again a metal ring and a nut to thighten it together. Also make an opening in the bucket side. This is for easy lightening the candel later on and fire needs O2

Final

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put the bowl with claypot in the bucket. Perhaps some Alluminium on the inside of the bucket as isolation to keep heath inside. fill the bowl with water and enlight a small candle. the heath of the candel heats the claypot witch gets very hot. This will prevent the water from freesing without getting to hot for drinking