Chicken Coop Gutter System

Allowing multiple chickens access it at the same time.

Chicken coop gutter system.

This system comes with gutters install straps downspout deluxe 4 port 50 gallon rain barrel and food safe pvc horizontal nipple watering bar with barrel connecting hose. Here are two of the three exit pipes from the basins. It runs into the coop and through a third 3 8 hose barge and into a hose connected to the rain barrel inlet. This system was designed to sit directly below the chickens roosts.

Once the spigot is opened and the float is adjusted the bowl gravity fills with water to a set level keeping the waterer from ever having to be manually. We found that this all worked best with some silicone caulk around the inside. You will need vinyl gutters cinder blocks end cap for gutters. Each one empties the water into a rain gutter splash block which directs the water out into the yard and eliminates any potential washout.

The design is an open long feeder made with two vinyl gutters one at the top and bottom respectively. The water is redirected into the pvc pipe coming out from the left. Just make a cut in your gutter slide the diverter on requires some finagling then trim down the excess gutter insert it into the bottom of the diverter and re attach all to the wall. The funny thing is there is a 2 acre pond 150 feet from the coop and the ducks refuse to swim in the pond preferring the bowls.

The cutting of the plywood and nailing it into place will probably be the hardest jobs. You can empty it by simply sliding out the gutter and depositing the chicken poop into your composter or garden. Then we drilled a hole through the coop wall and fed the hose through it. Inside the coop we attached the hose to an automatic pet watering bowl a stainless steel bowl with a float.

We attached a long washing machine hot water hose to the spigot on the barrel. To collect water from the gutter down spout i glued a short section of the down spout material inside the to elbow to create a little weir.