Best way to keep chickens from 💩ing in their water

lay it on me - tried making a “cheap” 5 gal bucket waterer & it didnt work & ended up not being cheap 😡🤬 i’m sick of walking out to green, smelly water that makes you want to puke

Water has to be higher than their ass.

Use nipple drinkers. Problem solved, forever.

👍🏻 TY sir

This^^^
I’ll take a pic of mine tomorrow and post it up.

Only have to add water in extreme drought. Rainwater normally keeps it full.

BearBranch, those aren't exactly what I was talking about. I worked in the poultry industry for 19 years and I've never seen any exactly like you posted. The ones I'm talking about hang straight down. What kind are those?

These are what I'm talking about. I've seen them screwed into the bottom of 5 gallon buckets, or used on PVC like this:

https://www.qcsupply.com/hanging-tube-waterer-6-nipples.html?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=Google|Shopping|NB|All_Products|ALL|ALL|ALL|FM&utm_content=490958302923&utm_term=&gclid=Cj0KCQjw98ujBhCgARIsAD7QeAhi9VjYKRsBVAAOIKOyDOan6X01nBDUsL4XFCjdZXbCEBtGpd1G0ewaAufIEALw_wcB

I bought some bowl type that you mount to bucket. Waste of damn money. Getting the nipples soon.

Bearbranch, those are some nice black copper marans

Dang that’s what I need . I catch rain water in barrels anyway . Get me some them make me one bout 10 ft . I got lots chickens

welp this is the last project on my to-do list - nipple waterers setup like BearBranch’s above
i’ve remodeled the opposite side of my GF’s barn as a much bigger, improved coop

This is the way to go. I had two 55 gallon drums on a table I made and plumbed together with shut off valves. Ran the pipe into the coop and then 90'd it down the wall and put 20 nipples on it. Never had a moments trouble with it until I got some dumbass turkeys and they kept breaking the nipples and draining the system. I always wanted to do the rainwater thing but I'd fill those two drums up and wouldn't have to fool with it again for over a year.

FRYEM..

https://carolinacoopsflockshop.com/products/horizontal-side-mount-chicken-waterer-nipples

I have a Little Giant 8 gallon waterer but thought the nips would be the way to go.