a friend of mine gave me nipples Harris Farms poultry watering nipples and uh
here's what it looked like what you do is you screw these up into the bottom of
a five-gallon bucket now I guess the birds they lift up on this and it lets
the water out and my Birds prevent me from going anywhere for more than a day
because I have 17 Birds now and I have to make sure they have water I mean I've
got I always keep plenty of feed out there for them but water is an issue
especially in the summertime so I'm going to make this up and I'm going to
get it out there and let them learn how to use it and just so I'm certain that
they do before I leave the nice thing about this is you know the water I have
it's close to the ground and they're always kicking stuff up into it but this
will hang above their head and they'll have to you know stick your head up and
hit that little nipple and get water so the water will stay a lot cleaner and
alright let's uh one of the things I'm gonna do my drill a 2160 fourths hole
through the bottom and it doesn't say to tap it but I have
a tap 2164 fine for it that's 3/8 fine thread I'm going to go ahead and tap the
hole just so them things will thready and nice then the handle I'm going to
take this plastic off of here and Bend a nice angle right in the middle of this
so when I hang it on something that won't slide this way or that way when
you get your drilling well that was easy and the more I think about this the more
I realized just how handy this is going to be very easy to do especially since I
use the tap not everybody has tap laying around but you don't need them these
would have gone in just fine without the tap put a little bit of uh oh let's see
here a little bit of teflon tape plumber's tape on the threads just a
little bit alright now I'm going to take the plastic off that handle and Bend
that handle into a position where it won't slide around on a chain I'll hook
it on so let me get that done well that was easy enough that's what I that's
what I ment case she was wondering all right now there's the lid up there I'm
going to take this out to the henhouse hang it up
and here's another idea I'm just dragging garden hose out there and fill
this up or five gallon bucket already filled with water all right let me get
this up there and get it set up and get it filled up and we'll see if the
chickens are curious come on in here girls come on bring it out
you want to kill y'all big mama look at the size of that freaking chicken man
he's damn they're the size of a turkey it just freaks me out every time I say
you're he's like twice the size over all the rest of the buff Orpingtons
there's Cool Hand Luke they're my new rooster oh let me say thank you to
Hobbit of the Shire he's a fellow that I met on the only survivalist preparedness
related blog I go to which is Z survival this vlog got net-positive the Shire was
a commenter there and through our comments we've got to realizing that
where we live fairly close to each other and we went and met and and actually I
got that chicken from him the richer and the traded him a small animal cage for
it and then then he gave me those nipples there that was awful nice Evan
thank you Hobbit over Shire I really appreciate it's going to come in handy
that bucket there come on girls I'm not going to do nothing to you come on in
here bring it out oh well I'll give them a little bit of time but that's gonna
work out good I'm sure they'll figure it out
I got smart chickens thanks for watching