Water Those Chickens & Give Those Rabbits A Home

“Unfortunately where we currently live, we cannot have chickens. Darn zoning! Someday, someday.

But…. my mother in law can and already has chickens!

I stumbled upon a few different ways to make homemade waterers for chickens. These are great for a couple of reasons:

  1. The water is kept up off the floor, which give your chickens more room to walk around
  2. Having the water up makes the chickens reach for the water and the stretching helps egg production
  3. The water is kept clean! No more sawdust, or droppings, or any other misc stuff in your chickens water, which is so much healthier for them!

You can’t beat that…”

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Self Sufficient Backyard

In all that time an electric wire has never been connected to our house. We haven’t gotten or paid an electricity bill in over 40 years, but we have all the electricity we want. We grow everything we need, here, in our small backyard. We also have a small medicinal garden for tough times. Read More Here...

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