Avian Aqua Miser: Automatic, poop-free chicken waterers

How to support a bucket waterer for chickens

Building a support bracket for a bucket waterer.

A chicken bucket waterer.Bucket waterers are very popular for chicken keepers with more than a dozen birds.  When you buy one of our diy chicken waterer kits, it's simple and cheap to install chicken nipples in the bottom of a scavenged (or bought) five gallon bucket.

But how do you support a heavy bucket of water on the side of your coop?  Mark made a cheap and easy bucket waterer support out of a two by two, some screws, and a couple of shelf brackets.  The finished support now graces the walls of my father's chicken coop in South Carolina.  Thanks for being our guinea pig, Daddy!

Alexandra Kent had an equally clever solution in her winning photo from our 2009 photo contest.



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