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This chicken waterer never freezes and is always clean

Name: This chicken waterer never freezes and is always clean
Uploaded: 2026-02-14T23:28:55+00:00
Duration: 1 min 14 s
Channel: Justin Rhodes
Description: In this video, the presenter explains why conventional chicken water systems are problematic—water can freeze, become dirty, and require heating—and…

14 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this video, the presenter explains why conventional chicken water systems are problematic—water can freeze, become dirty, and require heating—and introduces a DIY "Everflow" solution that eliminates those issues. The system uses chicken water nipples connected to a 50‑gallon food‑safe tank. Water is supplied not from a household spigot or well but from a pond located about 40 vertical feet above the tank, drawn through a PVC filter intake. The tank fills via gravity, and excess water drains through a tall outlet pipe, creating enough head to flow back down to a creek, effectively returning unused water to its original source. The design ensures continuous flow, prevents freezing, and keeps the water clean without manual heating or frequent cleaning.

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I got sick of chicken water chores. Frozen water, dirty water, heating the water. So I just built this DIY Everflow chicken water. This is how it works. Chicken water nipples, 50-gallon food safe. Why 50 gallons? They don't need that much. Well, that's so that we got our water coming in. I'm going to show you where that comes from in a second. That's so that our drain is, is tall. Look, this fills up, and then the water is going to come out way up here, and that gives us enough fall to get us back down to the creek where this water was going to go anyway. The water is hosed in here, not from our spigot, not from our well, and it's connected to our water supply line right here, and that goes all the way up probably 40 vertical feet all the way up to our pond. Up at the pond, we have a PVC filter water intake taking our water in and down to the Everflow water coming down in, filling up, and going out our drain pipe. Whatever we didn't use, back into the creek where it was going anyway.