Avian Aqua Miser: Automatic, poop-free chicken waterers

Australian PVC pipe chicken waterer

PVC chicken watererWe have successfully installed four chicken nipples on 2 meters of PVC 100 mm sewer pipe glued in a right angle, which holds nearly 20L of water and does not take up much space in the Chicken Hilton for our four Isa Brown chickens. I installed a bayonet mount so I can
attach the garden hose from outside the cage to top up the water.

They seemed to learn how to use this new watering system overnight after having a physical demonstration. Thank you for your well documented and prompt delivery to suburban Sydney.



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I see that a number of your waterer users use any random type of PVC or plastic buckets and that worries me. There is a reason that there are different grades of PVC pipe. There is only one class that is considered water supply acceptible. Other classes tend to have different solvents that will leach into the water overtime and are carcenogenic or at least toxic. PCBs are just one of the chemical families that will leach from the wrong type of plastic pipe.
Comment by Rebecca — at lunch time on Friday, November 4th, 2011
Food safe plastic
That's an excellent point. The pre-made waterers we sell are all made out of food grade plastic, but I think some people are less concerned about possible leaching in their homemade waterers. We do include a note to that end in our instructions file so that people can make an informed decision.
Comment by anna — Saturday evening, November 5th, 2011
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