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.

Chicken coop gutter system.

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. This system was designed to sit directly below the chickens roosts. 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. Here are two of the three exit pipes from the basins.

You will need vinyl gutters cinder blocks end cap for gutters. The water is redirected into the pvc pipe coming out from the left. Then we drilled a hole through the coop wall and fed the hose through it. Each one empties the water into a rain gutter splash block which directs the water out into the yard and eliminates any potential washout.

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. Allowing multiple chickens access it at the same time. Our rain catching auto watering set up is all you need to supply your chicken coop with fresh drinking water for your birds. Inside the coop we attached the hose to an automatic pet watering bowl a stainless steel bowl with a float.

Buy our heated poultry watering system here. Next we fashioned a self watering system from the rain barrel to the coop. We found that this all worked best with some silicone caulk around the inside. You can empty it by simply sliding out the gutter and depositing the chicken poop into your composter or garden.

We attached a long washing machine hot water hose to the spigot on the barrel. 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.