Cultivation of hens — business, certainly, favorable. However in order that such bird well grew, developed and laid many eggs, behind her, of course, it is necessary to take thorough care. The shed for hens should be equipped correctly. In particular, in the hen house it is necessary to establish convenient drinking bowls. Such tanks it will be simple to make with own hands for hens.
Manufacturing techniques of drinking bowls for hens exists a little. The owner of farmstead can make with own hands both simple summer, and winter tanks of this type.
How to make summer drinking bowl
Owners of homestead farms make such tanks for bird most often of plastic bottles. Vacuum drinking bowls for hens of this version manage cheap and are considered as rather convenient in use.
It is possible to make the capacity of this type, for example, on such technology:
- at height approximately in 1 cm from bottom on all circle of bottle cut openings with a diameter of 1 cm;
- install bottle in some old, previously carefully washed out plastic basin;
- fill bottle with water and densely twist its cover.
Water in such drinking bowl will be poured through openings in bottle in basin that that time until it is filled. It is better to take bottle for such drinking bowl complemented with the plastic handle.
In this case capacity can be fixed by wire to the nail hammered into wall. Weight plastic bottles have small. And therefore without additional fastening of chicken can easily invert such drinking bowl.
How to make drinking bowl for hens winter
Capacity of this version will be slightly more difficult to be made, of course. In this case owners of farmsteads usually make normal summer drinking bowl, for example, of the same plastic bottle, and then just establish it on the warming-up support.
At use of such extra, water in drinking bowl will be warmed in the winter and will not freeze at subzero temperature. It is possible to make thermosupport for chicken drinking bowl, for example, of galvanized tin with use of bulb of incandescence.
From thin metal in this case bend box with one moving-forward wall. In the disconnected wall cut out opening and insert into it cartridge for the glow lamp with the cord complemented with fork.
That water in drinking bowl in the subsequent was well warmed, on the top plane of metal box it is necessary to provide opening with a diameter of 8-10 cm also.
At the final stage twist bulb on 40-60 W in cartridge of the thermosupport collected thus and include it in network. Over box further establish the normal, made by the hands collected drinking bowl for hens. It is possible to put on thermosupport, for example, the plastic vacuum capacity collected the technology described above.
Instead of basin for assembly of drinking bowl in this case it is better to use "cup" from thinner material. For example, it can be cut out from bottle bigger, than the main, diameter.