Building a DIY Chicken Coop Part 5 - Rainwater Harvesting / Watering System
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- Today I'm installing a Rainwater Harvesting System and Chicken Watering system on the DIY Chicken Coop Project. In the video I'll show how I built a stand for the rain barrel, installed gutters, PVC piping as downspouts and I'll finish it off with the chicken waterer cups... which really is all the chickens care about! I'll also go over whats to come next in this project.....redesigned chicken feeder, plans for an electric fence and a potential future addition of goats next to the coop! Thanks to Butcher Box for sponsoring this video and please let me know if you have any questions :)
-Joe
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I'm wondering if I could book a room in that coop, it's a lot nicer than some motels I've had to endure in the past...
Haha…. You’ll have to fight the hens for space😉
Are you a good layer... 😀
Getting better everyday. With videos. Buy a foam knee pad from local store
Thank you Alan! As for the knee pads… yes I need to start using them desperately…. But I’m stubborn😂🤪
Love all the work on the chicken run and with your location water is a rear and valuable commodity. Hate the moustache.
Haha…. My wife does too! And in the next video it won’t be there😀👍
Very nice setup for your chickens! In my last house we had rain water collection and for the down spouts I had the same problem with the screens just getting clogged up. What we did was put on an angled screen , sort of a PVC box with a 45 cut at the top of it to hold the screen. Water went through fine and leaf debris slid off the 45 degree angle. If it got built up the water would wash it off basically. Seemed to work well. Thanks for sharing and I always learn something from your videos.
Yes, those actually work really well. The tank supplier I purchased my house rain tanks from sells them. But for this coop there’s not enough room for the drop aspect of it. But for the house they are pretty cool! 😀👍
Hey Mr. Pornstache, where's the other dude that always has terrific builds and ideas? Well if you see him tell him I like how he uses the chicken coop for rain harvesting.
Thanks
😂if I see him I’ll let him know!
70's Gay Porn mustache
I LIKE his mustache. Makes him look ready to take on the graboids!
@@thisismagacountry1318 he doesn't look gay. Haha!
@@gregnorvell9730 Didn't say HE was, said that the mustache was.
In the professional food sector, it is not permitted to supply animals with collection water from roofs because viral bacteria from bird droppings on the roof can be transmitted in the rainwater.
i guess he doesnt believe you. lol. he replied most comments but skipped yours 😆 just saying
If you get goats you will be the third AZ you tube channel I subscribe to with goaties as I like to call them. I went from 2 goats to almost 20 in two years and I live them. Another excellent video! Thank you! 😊👍🏻
2 to 20?! Haha…. I wouldn’t doubt if we end up with more as well. They’re such cool/cute:funny little creatures😀👍
Well either a fuzzy caterpillar took refuge under your nose, that a might proud mustache you are sporting! :D
Its a baby marsupial mammal known as a porcupine. The quills are poisonous. 😅
Yeah this caterpillar has been stubborn. Wife and daughter don’t like him but he keeps staying put🤣
Love how clean you keep your chicken area!! 😍🥰🤩
Hey, I don't know if you've ever addressed this in earlier videos but have you ever thought about putting trail cams out to catch some wildlife footage? I bet you'd have some interesting visitors from time to time.
I have on my rainwater wildlife water project. And as a matter of fact I’m getting ready to do another video on it as I recently upgraded it to 3 IBC totes from the original 1 tote setup. Approx 600 gals extra capacity.
Bobcats, deer, foxes, coyotes, rabbits, bird, etc.. … except for one issue. My game cams have all stopped working and I probably won’t be able to add any new footage in this video. Might add some old clips though.
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I know there are the the self charging attachments available having use of solar panels, that are about 8-10" small yet quire adequate to keep battery going.
to answer your question YES...your 80s mustache :)
Great video as always buddy great job!
Thank you Tony!
The Ted Lasso of chicken water coups... ;-)
Haha…. I haven’t seen the show but have heard about it
Thank you for sharing
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Hello dear friend 👋What a pleasure to come see you and enjoy a new project Whenever I visit you, you surprise me ... because you always have new projects!Good job, and nice video I loved it 👌👍👏🏻✔️god bless your new day and that of your family 🌵🌻👩🏻🌾🇲🇽
Thank you Rosario! 😊🙏. Always love to hear from you!!! 🇺🇸🤝🇲🇽
That is quite the soup strainer that you are growing. ;)
Keeps the soup nice and smooth🤣
Hey Joe, I've really liked the chicken coop redo. Looking forward to the next installments. Get busy with the goats. I can't wait. Hopefully will make it there to see the homestead improvements first hand. Beaver
Thank you! It’s been nice to kinda make the changes that I always wish I had done differently in the first one. Same looks but a bit of a cleaner slate to start with😊
Brother that’s a great stache. Keep it.
Thank you! It comes and it goes….but right now my wife is about done with it🤪
That a huge chicken coop! Plenty of space to move around and more clean air. Yours is permanently stationed, I saw many who build that can move around from one spot to another and kinda like the idea. Thank you for sharing, so detailed build and explanations.
Thanks for checking it out🙏😀
@@homesteadonomics You are most welcome🥰
I see the Tom Selleck look going on. It's a nice looking chicken coop, and rainwater collection system. Cheers! ✌️
Thanks Dwayne! 😀🙏
The growth is good, but we're not quite ready for Jazz Odyssey Joe.
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😂 Who’s this new Guy??, did you hire a handyman??? Enjoyed watching the rain gutter project. Aloha
Yeah, he works really cheap so I had to hire him for a couple videos🤣👍
Your knowledge your skill , worth more than million subscribers.
Nice. I'm amazed how much water pressure you have with just the gravity feed on this system. I like the aluminum "mini-gutter".
Yeah it’s amazing what just a few feet of water will produce. .434 psi per foot of elevation. So that’s probably around 2-2.5 psi
One more thing I think you need to consider,
an overflow in your barrel to avoid water overwhelmes every thing around the barrel.
You may make around one down from the top and guide it to irrigate a tree or something else
I plan to have an over flow go into what ever I set up for the goats. It’ll be down hill so the flow will be easy 😀👍
Joe, that's a very nice chicken coop. Wow, very nice.
Thank you Matt🙏😀
Very nice build Joe! Or is it Super Mario! Had a good chuckle when we saw the mods to the coop! Lol!
As always... detailed, thorough and thought out!! Great job!!
Thank you!
Always great construction ideas.
Well done sir
Thank you!
This is a great video. So much knowledge. 🙏
Thank you Ian!
That stache was a heckuva surprise
Interesting and insightful video, thanks for sharing this video. Bless Marley for wanting to add goats to your farm. Future thoughts for your seasons of hard freeze. I use an aquarium heater ($15) in the bottom of water trough with a brick flanking each side and a third brick covering the heater. In NE Ohio we have freezing temperatures for 3-4 months every winter; dogs, cats, trash pandas, birds & deer all come and drink. If you do have a solar panel that produces 12-18vdc, you can always wire a glow plug or two into a bucket or watering device for your birds.
Thanks for sharing this insightful video. The stash makes you looks a bit like a young Tom Selleck; does your wife like it? Wishing you and your family a blessed week, good health, prosperous days and peaceful evenings. Peace Joe.
I like the aquarium heater idea and the solar DC one as well. Yes, NE Ohio sees some vastly colder stuff than we get here. A few years ago we stayed under freezing for like 2 full days straight and people were loosing their minds🤣
As for the young Tom Selleck…I’ll take it!!! And my wife as a young girl had a crush on “magum PI” 😂. So I guess it fits! However she isn’t a huge fan of it… and I actually just buzzed it off to surprise her🤪
@@homesteadonomics Ah come on man. I thought of you as a trend setter. Better than all the beards. I myself from central OH, have been thinking of collecting rain water for various uses. I will have to reference some of your earlier vids for some pointers. I like the gentleman's heater idea.
Very nice design! Love watching and listening! Thanks!
Thank you Loren!
Ok, now that was a quick mustache grow!
I used a special blend of rogaine and ribeye steaks to get it to grow faster 🤣
you've got a dream chicken setup going on here!!! This is our first year with chickens.. 16 laying hens, 4 roosters (if they play nice) and 24 meat kings.. learning as we go along but have really appreciated your videos as we learn!! Ordered us a run chicken door today after using the $30 amazon knock off for a week or so (it sucks, don't order the knock off!!)
Great job! Look forward to what you do with the goats.
Thank you Jo!
-Joe 😉👍
Thanks for the ideas!
Glad you liked it 😀👍
You are a nice guy, I like your videos! 👍👏
Thank you!
Great build
Thank you!
Mighty fine work Mr. Joe! God Bless!
Thank you John!
Very helpful. I’m planning an upgrade of my coop and run to include a rain catchment watering system and storage for feed, straw, treats, supplements, and first aid. I have watched your whole chicken coop series and reviewed the parts I need most. Thanks so much for how thoroughly you explain everything. You do really neat work. 👍🏽
Rocking that salty 'stach!
Nice and beautiful
Thank you!
I use those watering cups too; however, I don't find it as easy as you show to remove the cup! ha It's like there is invisible glue holding fast!!
There are a lot of different versions of this same cup. These specifically were from tractor supply. But I originally tried some from Amazon and they were terrible. They looked the same but the quality was not good at all.
@@homesteadonomics I've thought about experimenting with the weighted cup (fills up on its own?) but I have spent a "small fortune" on experimenting with waterers and feeders. ha
I'm a new subscriber.
Looking forward to GOAT video!
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The chickens are very lucky and seem so happy! Always nice to see the upgrades.
Digging the mustache brother!
Thank you! 😀🙏
Ver well captured and precise content.
Thank you!
Nice Tshirt!
Thank you!🙏😊 ‘firefighters for freedom’
Mustache had me trying to think of who you looked like... Burt Gummer from Tremors movies LMAO
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Nice moustache
Thank you!
Great job!
Thank you!
Happy MOvember, Joe! Glad to see I'm not the only one who was reminded of Magnum P.I. and Burt Gummer. LOL!
So excited for Marley that goats are gonna happen. Woohoo! I expect her to have a few videos teaching us all how to make chèvre and goat milk soap some day. :D Looking forward to seeing the goat pen build(s) to come. Looks like the chickens approve of the local brew choices on tap (haaaa).
Another great video. The system looks pretty simple which is really nice. The gutters is really a great way to repurpose items to what you need.would love to find out how much rain that you can collect from the small roof and does it overflow into your main system if needed? Would the goats be for milk or just a nice to have on the homestead? Yes, eating eggs is one thing, butchering your chickens takes it to a new level. Do you keep a rooster around? Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Thomas!
No it does not overflow into anything right now. But when I build the goat shelters and fenced in area I may have it overflow into whatever I make for their water system…. As they will likely be a little bit down slope of the chickens so I can work a couple trees within their yard. Milk is something we would like to try but in all honesty it’s likely going to be more of a fun learning project for my daughter. Perhaps we might sell any babies as a cost neutralizing aspect…. But then my daughter might mix that… as the babies are one of the cute/fun parts that she’s likely looking forward too🥰
Joe, the MO is looking awesome! water collection system too!
That mustache tho, it looks good on you!
Simple instructions to a relatively complicated process, especially those of us that do not have the proper tools. But, you're teaching us to fish. I'm not sure if I missed anything about the chemicals that are used in plumbing tape, sealant (I think I see the waterproof blue). Did you find a way for them to not ingest all the chemicals in their water? Or expanded PVC pipe, on a hot day, that may start to deteriorate. Great design, I'm building something similar, but with one raised roof point. Gravity does the rest.
Parabéns! Ótimas ideias. Içara, SC Brasil.
Thank you! 🙏😀
Nice work! Nice mustache! Keep up the great videos. 👍 I also like that you don't eat your own chicken. 😀
Thanks Lynne! 😊🙏
Didn't know that Tom Selleck made TH-cam videos
Yeah he asked me if I’d be okay with him standing in😂
That’s awesome. So many great ideas 👍
Thank you!
I know this has nothing to do with this video but, I sent you something from Instagram about Malta on the old way the people use to preserve prickly pears. I was wondering if you had seen it. Both sides of my family comes from there. My mom and myself were born here but, I (before Covid) would go there often. My mom and Dad retired there.
I have not watched it yet but will go check it out now👍😊
Interesting, please share with the rest of us too.
Nice work, Bro
Thank you!
I have some questions about the size of the gutter you chose, questions I only have because of what I learned from other videos of yours.
Don't you get a lot of your rain in rare but heavy deluges?
Won't those gutters be quickly overflown and direct only a small portion of the rain into the cistern?
They are undersized a bit for the coop roof but the other one should be fun capacity wise. It’s more just using the pieces I have on hand that will allow for proper drop to thr pvc and then to the barrel. Bigger gutters would catch more but ultimately there is only so much that barrel will hold
Very cool !!!
Thank you!
Great solution! 👏 it inspired me !
Joe, are you going to have plans for the chicken coop? I really like what you've done and would like to buy plans. Thanks so much for sharing!
Hi Marie,
I generally don’t make plans for my builds but if you check out parts 1-3 of this build I give all the dimensions/cut lengths of wood within the video. So while they aren’t paper plans the Info should be enough to get you going pretty well😀👍
Can't help it " stash" 😀!
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Nice 👍👍👍👍 work bud
Thank you!
Obrigado pela dica
Yeech.....lose the stash or join a barbershop quartet.....lol....peace love your vid!
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Nice 'stash!
Excellent, like usual! If only TH-cam would allow me to give it 2👍
I am so excited on the new project, with the goats 🐐 Question: will you guys raised them for milk?
Awesome Joe! Excellent work as usual!
Hi, what kind of filtering system do you use for filtering rain water before pumping in to your home?With your DYI ideas, I have installed rainwater harvesting system for my roof top water, from past 10months we have used 80000 litres of rain water, thanks a lot
I don’t do much that is very special. I let the rain tank settle out first. Then use a transfer pump with a sediment filter and pump the water over to my green tanks that are connected to my house. I will add a tiny amount of chlorine at that time. Way less than what a municipal water service would add. Then everything in thr home is just that water. But for cooking or drinking water we filter through a berkey ceramic filter. But sinks, showers, laundry, etc is just the straight ol rain water
Great job. How does the water get to the waterers? Is the a RAM pump, Gravity fed or some other type of pump?
It’s just the gravity and difference in level from the barrel to the cups . Since the cups are lower that the stand the barrel is on the water will always flow to thr lowest outlet in the system😀👍
Thank you so much for your amazing videos
Love this! Quick question - Did you have a reason to put the tank so far away from the chicken area? Is it needed for the gravity feeding? We have a very similar setup and would love to incorporate some kind of water storage like this.
sir I m your fan so axlant your varks
I once heard Joel Salatin say that chickens love to reach for water.
Joe, I have been watching you for years. Thank you for always sharing what you are working on. Did you ever think that you would make it this far with the endorsements? Happy for you
A+++!!! Is that a "Movember" mustache? :-)
Do you use misters in the summer? I'm your neighbor over in Sierra Vista, AZ, albeit we don't get as hot - only high 90s, maybe one day at 100, 101. Sitting at 4,500 feet.
We are actually pretty similar to you as well. Closer to Tucson but we are at 4000’ and it definitely helps to keep things cooler. We do get in the 100’s more often than you but not extreme.
As for misters, no. But plenty of shade… under the coop, the shade roof in the run and also the position of the coop is between two trees so it gets plenty of shade as well😎👍
@@homesteadonomics Good info, thanks!
No shave November! Win that Turkey at the station! Just a guess, how close am I?
Had to show the young guys how to grow it right😉👍
@@homesteadonomics well played sir, well played!
The Stash, circa Magnum PI
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Cool ! Hey you are a fireman?
Yep! That’s the day job👨🏻🚒😀👍
I was looking at those automatic chicken I wasn't sure if they were any good. Experience with them do you think they would function in colder temperatures?
I can’t say for sure in a really colder place. But I do know that farmerbrad.com has a nice bucket/waterer nipple setup that he uses with success in a colder climate.
Hi,
Why you didn't paint the water drum chair with epoxy or any water proofing transperaent material.
This is will save it for very long time without color change or rotting.
Joe with moustache
I've enjoyed and learned a lot from many of your videos over the past several years. Thank you for providing them. Because TH-cam censors people and supports a false and harmful narrative, I am exiting their platform and therefore unsubscribing. Perhaps your videos will be available on a platform I visit in the future.
I have the same concerns as you regarding censorship…. Especially in the last 20 months. Currently my videos are mirrored on odysee.com. Basically a block chain version of YT. Additionally I plan to add them in other places as well…. gab, rrumble, and whatever other places I can find😀👍
I noticed the rain tub and the moustache
Off topic but what's the meaning of symbol in your shirt at the start of the video? I know the "thin blue line" flag, but that one with a red line intrigued me
Btw, nice video as always
It’s the fire service Maltese cross….. and the red line is for the fire service. Same as the blue line for law enforcement or green line for military😀👍
@@homesteadonomics thanks for the reply, nice to know
It’s been a year now since you installed the auto chicken doors. Are you still liking them?
I’m fairly new to your channel and love your content.
How many chickens do you house in your coop?
Wawo nice mastermind
That lip caterpillar looks really heavy.
The water pressure just comes from the gravity from barrel right? ..
Yep, just elevation pressure. You get .434 psi for every foot of elevation difference from the top of the water level to the outlet below😊👍
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How does TSC list the filter basket that you used to keep out leaves and debris?
Eggsellent chicken watering video!
Love the 70's porn-stash :)
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@@homesteadonomics Did you pick your name yet? Maybe Tucson Redington?
Anyone found a good water-proofer + Paint mix????? Ordered A wooden coop I still have to build, it'd be nice if the rain didn't rot out the coop in 1 year.
I’d recommend researching a boiled linseed oil and/or urethane and thinner mix. Some teardrop forums refer to it as “the mix” you thin the polyurethane or linseed oil with thinner to allow it to soak in more. Then progressively with each coat thin it less and less until full strength
@@homesteadonomics Thank You!
Is there any reason I shouldn't use pressure treated wood around chickens?
How did you close off the end of the gutters?