https://davidscotthunter.com/tags/chickens/ Recent content in Chickens on David Scott Hunter Hugo -- gohugo.io en © 2025 Dave Hunter Thu, 18 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://davidscotthunter.com/posts/build-a-chicken-waterer/ Thu, 18 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://davidscotthunter.com/posts/build-a-chicken-waterer/ <p>We were using a traditional gravity waterer to water our chickens. Unfortunately, chickens don’t really adhere to standards of hygiene that we’d like them to. The watering tray would be filled with feathers, straw, dirt and poop after a day of drinking and scratching in the run. The other downside was that it was providing water for the neighborhood rats. We also tried an automatic waterer that uses a float, but we still had the same problems with pollution and access, and the float would jam.</p>