we are back we have a huge day tomorrow we are going into town to do a bunch of things and
i have a bunch of chores i need to get done today uh in order for tomorrow to be a success
as you can see we are getting more chickens we processed the uh previous meat chickens
and uh we got five pounds a piece fully dressed at seven weeks and so
we're picking up another 15 more that way we have enough colossus through the winter
i have a feeder i can put in there but i don't have feed right now so i'm not going to deal
with that but one thing i got to do is make a water and what i'd like to show everybody
is how to make a very inexpensive water for the chickens or rabbits or whatever you might have i
actually made one of these for the rabbits i could have showed you in there just a second ago but
it's more interesting to show you and so you can kind of uh get what's going on so let's get
to it all right this is gonna be a super easy water uh what you need is a good screw-on lid
like this on any type of plastic container we like using these uh coconut oil jars
and what you're also going to need is a bucket now it doesn't necessarily have to be a five
gallon bucket but what you want is something that is bigger in diameter than your coconut uh
jar and then you're also going to want to allow for some space for the animals to get into to
drink from so you've got that's why i use the 5 gallon bucket so you can see that i do have
a big enough gap on that and because i used this one for target shooting uh at one point there uh
in the past i don't need the top half so what i'm going to do is reuse this one and um cut out the
bottom half so what you're going to want to do is make sure if you're using a 5 gallon bucket or
any bucket like that that you don't just measure from the bottom straight up and think that's where
it is because you do have about a 3 8 lift here before the bottom of the barrel actually starts
so i like to go um three and three eighths up to the top and then cut right around
i actually went four inches just to give myself an extra a little bit of playroom just when i do
put this in i want to make sure that i'm covered on all on the height so uh what i'm going to do
now is just cut this any uh with anything that really works for you i'm going to use a sawzall
i don't recommend it but you know that's all i got at the moment so play it safe out there
all right once you've uh cut that it doesn't have to be perfect it's not going on the market or
anything um so i'm gonna clean that out eventually but i just want to show you how to get this done
before i move on to the little finicky work uh once you cut this out you're going to want to
take this jar here and what you're going to want to do is drill four holes on the
lip here uh you could go onto the side here but this is where the height of this comes into play
if you cut this down too short make sure you don't go up too high
or your water will be overflowing so if i were to drill this
up here this water level would continue to flow up and out now if i drill at the bottom here this
will only fill up until those holes and create the vacuum effect that you see with most feeders
all right so i gave the rabbits obviously the one i just made just because it's a little
higher up and uh it's easier for them and what i'm gonna do is use the first one that
i made which is this one just because it's a little narrow in the chickens so when they
bring them home they'll be smaller and it'll be easier to get the food
and again here's my coconut jar that i use on the last one with my hole so i'll give you a
quick little demonstration on how this works you're gonna fill up your container here first
like so then you're going to fill up your coconut jar or any the jar you're using so
see this is what i mean make sure you don't fill it up too much because then it starts leaking
so it stops leaking put your lid on and now you got your water in there and now this is your
extra so i'm gonna put that in there and there you go this is right to the brim and this is not
um emptying itself because now i've created the vacuum effect and there's nowhere for that
water to go and as the chickens drink or even the rabbits drink their water um they'll start filling
up itself until the water is uh out but it's just one way to last a little longer so you're not
coming out all the time and feeding your animals or giving them water or whatever
because time is valuable and the last thing you want to do is come out every
hour and check the water on the animals so this is a nice quick cheap uh
water that you can make with the minimal products it's cheap you don't have to make
uh or pay exorbitant amount of money that way if it breaks you don't feel bad about throwing it out
and you're reusing things that you have around the homestead so hopefully you got lots out of this
video you