Watering
Automatic cups, horizontal nipples and heated bases — the three ways we keep water clean and topped up on our own farm. Every fitting here has been drilled into our buckets first, so the hole sizes and the species notes come from doing it, not from a spec sheet.
Automatic cups, horizontal nipples and heated bases — the three ways we keep water clean on our own farm.
Best seller
Large Automatic Chicken Waterer Cups
From $19.99
Large Automatic Waterer Cups & Tees
From $22.99
Horizontal Chicken Waterer Nipples - Pack of 15
$16.99
Sold out
Heated Poultry Waterer Base - 11 in & 13 in
Sold out — back soon
Guided setup
Need a complete setup?
Tell us your flock size and your container or line setup, and we'll help build the right combination of cups, tees and tubing.
Choose your system
Cups or nipples?
Both run off the same bucket or line. The difference is what the bird does with its beak, and how much water sits in the open.
Both run off the same bucket or line. The difference is what the bird does with its beak.
Open water
Automatic cups
An open drinking cup that refills automatically as birds drink. Chickens, ducks and other poultry can drink naturally from the bowl, with no peck training required.
Closed water
Waterer nipples
A horizontal pin the bird pecks to release water. Nothing sits in the open, so no bedding, droppings or algae get in — but birds have to learn the peck, so start them while you can watch.
Compatibility
What you can fit them to
If you can drill a 3/8 in hole in it and it holds water, a cup will thread into it.
5-gallon bucket
The setup most keepers start with. Two cups low on the side, lid on to keep the light out.
Barrel or drum
A 30 or 55 gallon drum runs a bigger flock for a week without a refill.
PVC or poly line
Run a line along the run and tee a cup in wherever the birds gather. Cups & Tees ship together.
Winter watering
When it drops below freezing
Cups and nipples both stop working once the water in them turns to ice. A heated base goes under the fount you already own and keeps it liquid — the thermostat brings the element on at around 35°F and cuts it once the base is warm.
Cups and nipples both stop working once the water turns to ice. A heated base goes under the fount you already own and keeps it liquid.
LEDs tell you it is working
Green for power, red for heating, right on the rim — you can see it is doing its job from the coop door.
Even heat across the plate
The element is routed across the full plate, so the base warms evenly rather than in one hot spot.
Works with your waterers
Metal double-wall founts and plastic bucket waterers both sit straight on top. Nothing to replace.
Straight answers
Questions about watering
If your setup is unusual, message us — we will tell you honestly whether it will work before you buy.
Will these work on a 5-gallon bucket?
Cups or nipples for ducks?
Do I need to teach the birds?
Will the line freeze in winter?
Do you ship outside the US?
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