DIY Auto-Fill Chicken Waterer Cups by RentACoop

Seems to work as it should. Still only in a week or so, but so far so good.

Best watering system I've used for watering chickens.

the hens love these much more than any other method but they still get them dirty. I don't blame you tho. Nice and sturdy

The simplicity of design is great. Got the covers for them as welll. Only could be better if you could remove the cup to dump debris out. They are great.

My small flock didn't seem to be using the waterer with the small spigots. I ordered and installed these auto fill cups and by golly today I observed the rooster using one of the original (small spigots), so it's the best of both worlds with options for all! The installation could not have been easier! Thanks once more!

Tried the 3 gallon water trough, vertical nipples, and horizontal nipples with disappointng results. Rent-A-Coop automatic watering cups works better than I expected and sthe chickens like them. Would recommend these auto. cups above all other methods I've tried.

The baby chicks have clean water most of the time. Yay

Easy to assemble and my 12 chickens drink freely from it. Water stays cleaner then the regular waterer I have. Added a fill pipe from the top and out the side of the coop so no longer have to enter the coop to fill water. Great little product

Love the automatic watering cups. I attached them to a 5 gallon bucket and hung it in my coop. They work fantastic, no leaks, easy to install.

My morning watering chores just got a lot easier! My chickens free range and it can be a chore and a challenge to make sure they have fresh, CLEAN water near their favorite gathering spots - especially in this hot weather. I put together a few DIY waterers and the girls started drinking right away. Assembly was very simple. I do wish the kit included the clean out cups. But still, the girls and I give this waterer 5 out of 5 feathers.

I am glad to have these cups for my chickens so i m not worried that they run out of water in the hot summer while i am away from home.

We originally had cups that let water on as the chickens pecked into the cup but they were never full when we checked. These are constantly full and far better. Love them!

This is a great watering cup!!! Bought some from tractor supply and they were awful ! Never worked even as new so I was very leery about trying cup style waterers again BUT… after reading the reviews on these I was still skeptical but decided to give them a try. I got them, unboxed and drilled holes in my 20 gallon Barrel, turned those dudes in there and people, I’m so impressed and happy with these! They are truly the ticket! These ARE GREAT Absolutely Recommended! Thanks for such a Great product!

Love these! We bought for our smaller hens but all our girls like them.

This is all new to me but i decided to get some chickens and i saw a lot of different things for them ,but when i saw your cups it made a lot of sense i tried it and my chicks love it i highly recommend it it is prefect.

I tried the horizontal nipples, bought some very expensive ones and some of my guys seemed able to use while others not. Too important of an issue to chance so I tried these cups. They fit in the holes I had made for the nipples and all 12 of my guys are able to use and really seem to enjoy dipping their beaks in. The only dirt in them is what gets rinsed out of their mouths and I think that’s probably, a good thing also. Service was excellent and they even sent an extra cup! Will be ordering from this company again and highly recommend!

Works fine. Used in pigeon loft. Birds drop grain and health grit into cup when drinking, simply suck it out of cup with Turkey baster or horse syringe without needle. Made a small "roof" over cups attached to 5 gal bucket to keep droppings out. Will buy more to have backups.

Works great, fast shipping, happy with product

This is the best product. Work just like the description. I bought the covers also and our chickens quickly learn to drink from it. We love these cups. Fantastic!

Good product! Works well

These watering cup are great. Very easy to install. I installed 3 in a 5 gallon bucket in less than 10 minutes. My 13 week old chicks took to it right away. They worked exactly as they advertised. To my surprise when I ordered two to try them out, Rentacoop sent me an extra one. Wow, that customer service at its best and that tells you how proud they are of their product. You won't be unhappy with these watering cups. I highly recommend.

We have tried several other types of drinking cups for our flock, nothing absolutely nothing has come close to the ease and versatility of these particular cups, they can be secured to almost anything that will hold liquid and work perfectly. I have put them on many different containers, 5 gallon drums, 1 gallon paint containers, quart plastic bottles to name only a few, they work flawlessly and I have saved countless gallons of water that would have been lost to most other cups. I am very pleased with their performance and will continue to purchase them in the future. Thanks. R. B.

Absolutely love them they make our coop so much cleaner and easier to take care of.

I bought these because water was constantly dirty. These are great. You just have to raise them so they don’t touch the ground.

A good idea. Worked well in design, excellent for chickens. And way better than the ones with the stem inside the cup, more roomy for duck bills. However, the ducks were able to 1) make a big wet mess with it, and 2) sully each bowl right away, so i switched to a nipple style since I have it inside the coop on a thin plywood floor. It was PERFECT for the chickens.

Best little waterer for the price too. Easy to install with no leaks.

I would like to share something about these water cups - they are AWESOME - a quick trick if they appear to stop working and you suspect they are clogged, just take them off the waterer and run warm to hot water through the front side hole it will un-clog and wa-la like new! I have had many different watering systems/cups in the past but these are the BEST hands down! Great product.

We’ve been using the chicken waterers for about six months now, and I don’t know who loves them more...us or our chickens!

I would recommend all my chicken friends to support Rent-aCoop. The products and customer service are superb !!!

Awesome product!! Will definitely purchase again!!

Love these cups, they work great! Easy to install.

These are working well for our new bunnies! We initially purchased the pin style, and the ladies figured it out, but I suspect the male we purchased had never drank from a bottle, so we switched to the bowl style attachment for him. They're both working out great!

I am pleased with the Auto-Fill Cups so far. They were easy to install. I have not seen any leaks and the chickens went straight to the cups and started to drink. The customer service was excellent. My order was received within 5 days after placing.

You can honestly put these cups on anyting as you can see. They do not leak they do not drip and most importantly the bowl itself has a large enough reservoir that even when it runs below the water level, the birds still have a good bit of water.

Easy to install with very clear directions, and excellent customer service! They even included an extra cup in my order!

Raising quail in South Carolina with the heat is always a challenge when it comes to water. After trying every waterer on the market and fabricating some of my own, I find these are by far the best. Whether they are on a cage for 12 birds or 120 Birds, the watering is much easier, faster and much less water is wasted. these water cups can be placed on literally anything that you can imagine oh, they hold up well, they are easy to install and the birds love them!!!!

Keeping nearly 2000 Coturnix quail, watering systems are always a challenge for me. I ordered these last week and proceeded to put them to the test on the farm. I am quite heavy-handed so just merely the fact that they held up well to my installing them on various plastic bottles was quite impressive. I have tested them on everything from 32-ounce Gatorade bottles, 52 oz juice bottles and even 32 ounce water bottles. I am extremely impressed with the fact that there are no leaks even though the birds constantly jump and hop all over them, running into them etc. I would strongly suggest these two anyone with any type of fowl. Some of my grow out and breeding setups house up to 150 birds each and I am amazed at how much water I am not using. These waterers are definitely saving on not only water, but time cleaning and filling water containers!!! I will be purchasing many more in the near future!!!

As a new "chicken tender" I have read everything and bought a lot of things that I thought would make my chickens easy to care for and that they had everything they need. The waterer containers are awesome as I dont have to clean them or refill them several times a day and they are easy to fill. I had the nipples on it at first and decided that my chicks weren't getting enough and some of them didn't seem to know how to use it. So I replaced them with the cups...(thank goodness these are interchangeable with the waterer) and all is well and good in the neighborhood!!

Highly recommend for ducklings! These are quick and easy to clean (I just swivel to empty). They give me peace of mind that they always have fresh drinking water (Through their larger bowl is always available for dunking their heads, it's generally a mess in .2 second) I'm also excited to use these in the winter with a heated bucket.

We connected them to a PVC pipe which is connected to a rain barrel. We love the system as a fresh water supply is always available for our chickens.

Much easier to get the chickens to use than other styles. They even sent an extra....good business practice!

Not all drinker cups are created equal. The wing nut on the inside keeps the birds from working it loose. Great product

The bolts on the cup don’t even screw to the plastic but that it comes with until about 1/4 of an inch from the base of the bolt. Can’t use it for 55 falling drum or anything with any thickness. Do not recommend unless something gets fixed. I’d like my money back for this.

Replaced the alternative brand with little yellow valves with this one and they stopped leaking immediately.

Tried the cups with the yellow "trigger", they always were empty and I was afraid the chickens were not getting enough water. It was obvious that a cup that kept water in it all the time was the best solution. I replaced the trigger cups with these rent a coop cups. They always have water in them and the chickens LOVE it. I didn't realize until using these that my chickens drank that much water! Even though they accumulate some debris from the chickens's beaks, having access to this water is so much better than no water at all. Do yourself and your yardbirds a favor and get these cups.

This is my second purchase as my chickens broke one of my originals and I needed a replacement. They work great as designed and make my watering process so much easier. Plus, they gave me an extra one in the shipment as a bonus! Outstanding customer service and a very useful product. Thanks!!

Excellent customer service! Excellent products. Would definitely recommend.

Very good product. Easy to install, use, and clean. Fits easily to replace other standard waterer cups, such as the "trigger" type that's more commonly found on store-bought poultry water systems.

Love these water cups. Makes less mess with very messy ducklings.

Very finicky some fill up all the way one doesn't stop filling up and one leaks ill keep playing with but disappointed considering the price

Thank you for the bonus cup - it came in handy as one of the cups leaked and the bonus cup allowed us to continue using the waterer without having to order more cups.

Best choice for our chickens!

Ordered a 4 pack of these and received a bonus one with a thank you card. I installed 2 of them in a 5 gallon bucket. One of them wouldn't stop filling and was leaking the water out. I replaced it and no problem now. My chickens instantly huddled around and seemed to enjoy the big gulps of water they were having. I'd been using the little red cups with yellow triggers. These work so much better and the chickens like them better. Also, it's a small family business and I'm glad to support it. I'll definitely buy from RAC again.

We're having much better luck with these watering cups over the other ones with the yellow stick in the cup. Much better design and build quality! PS. They come with wing nuts too!!!

I have to say I absolutely LOVE these! Installation was a breeze and my girls started using the system immediately. NO learning curve here. Typically my ladies take a couple days to become comfortable with any changes in their run, but they started drinking from the little cups in less than half an hour. TOTAL SUCCESS! I'm a huge fan!

I keep 6 ducks and about 60 chickens in the same area. The ducks continually foul the waterers so that they are all muddy and the chickens won't drink from them. The two buckets I had nipples on for the chickens didn't allow the chickens to get enough water in these hot Georgia temps. Now that I've installed these cups on 5 gallon buckets, the ducks seldom use them because they can't get their heads in far enough. But even when the ducks do use them, the dirt settles to the bottom quickly, and the remaining cups remain clean anyway. And these cups on buckets are SO much easier to keep clean than the big 5 and 7 gallon waterers I had. It is impossible to keep the algae out of the waterers, even using vinegar. By using buckets and these cups, they are a breeze to keep clean. I just change out the water once a week, wipe down the buckets, and spray a hose into the cups once or twice a week to keep them clean. I keep ordering more and more of them and now use nothing else for my chickens, quail, and guineas. They are totally awesome!

I did a set up with a 3 gallon water supply using the water cups. Since the chicks took yo it quick and they seem to like it I decided to have a secondary watering side on the other side of the run. At first I was just going to duplicate what I had done but just got this crazy idea of using a wine bottle with a water cup. All I can say is now the chicks prefer the water cup with the wine bottle!. They will drink all the water first out the 750ml bottle which is in reality too small. At first I thought the water was leaking out but I filled it up when locking chicks in coop and checked it in AM and no loss of water. I will up grade to a 1.5 L wine bottle . Might do two. I will still keep my 3 gallon cup supply, the chickens now consider this setup as secondary. So it is true Chickens do go with white wine.

Works perfectly! Seems durable too

I attached the cups to 5 gallon bucks for my chickens, ducks, and guinea fowl and it works perfectly!

When I installed my watering system I used the ups that had a plunger that the girls would peck to get water to fill the cup. These did not work at all a they never refilled with water. When I installed the cups I purchased from you they work exactly as they are suppose to, now the girls are happy happy happy. Thank you.

This little cup makes it so easy to keep water to my chickens. The bucket sits on the outside of the pen and the cup slides right through the fence keeping the water clean and easy to refill.

I wanted a back up water system . I like it so much I plan on repeating again on the other side. It is cleaner, I have a better supply of water and the best part the chickens prefer to drink out the cups. Win, win all the way.

Love it!! Works 10x better than the other style.

My babies love it! They caught on quick and keeps me from changing water so many times! Thank you!

The concept is great and I loved the idea of them BUT... they aren't able to be cleaned easily. You can not remove them to clean them with out completely dumping the bucket and completely removing them from the bucket to wash and disinfect. My cups were always slimey and dirty. I was not happy so I just went back to the old faithful 1 gallon clean and fill water buckets.

I have purchased 12 of these now. I like them. When they work, they work great. Rentacoop sends an extra cup in each package. This is good because (in my experience) 2 out of the 7 cups don't work properly. Generally, they overfill to some degree and run over. I had one that never even slowed. I have found though that it is an issue with the cups - not with the line or the connection. I just keep switching the cups out until I find one that works. Also - the defective cups don't seem to work at any point in my line. Still - I intend to keep using the Rentacoop cups. They work well when in place and functioning properly - just buy more than you think that you need so that you can swap out the ones that don't work.

I love these! I will change my review & rating to 5 stars if/when they correct the issue I often run into when connecting the wingnuts to the cup valve. I don’t know if it’s a thread matching issue, but I suspect it’s more of a length issue. I often find that the wingnut will not attach to the cup valve once on the water source. The bucket I use is not very thick, but I feel like the container width is “just thick enough” that the wingnuts cannot grab onto the cups threaded valve...just one or two more turns would do the trick! Otherwise, well actually they still are my absolute favorite watering system device! And their customer service is some of the best I’ve ever dealt with!!!

My girls love these!

I have just built two Quail pens which I will use your water cups which I also use for my chickens. I love this style over other cups because there is less to go wrong with them. Easy to clean too. They hold more water which means I can 2 cups in each cage instead of three saves time and money either way. Only draw back I have is if you lose the spring. I recommend this product to my friends with chickens now.

So far so good. There is some inconsistency in how the cups work. Some fill more than other. I have one that fills up to the rim, another about 1/4" below and the rest fall somewhere in between. One of the cups in the pack never shut off. There is something preventing the valve from completely closing. I took it apart - but I think it is just a manufacturing defect. The cup has to be pushed down until it 'clicks' before the water shuts off. That one isn't on my system anymore. The birds took to the cups quickly. The bottom line is that these are a great concept and, when they work, they are fantastic. They just all don't work the same. I have set up a system for my chickens and will order more cups and connectors for a system in my turkey pen. One good feature of the rent-a-coop equipment is that it is interchangeable. If the cups prove unreliable over time, I can switch them out for the rent-a-coop nipple drinkers.

I love the cup idea my chickens and turkeys can see the water in the cup so right away they start drinking out of it.

I would love it if the screw was longer!!! But I made it work. Cold water all day...hens are happy happy!!!

Easy to install. Works as advertised. Pleased with the results. Much more convenient than the previous method we were using. Thanks!

Love it! Much easier for my chickens to get water so far I like them better than the other style cups.

We have them in our biddie cages and chicken pens. They work great and always fresh water with the bucket and float system we set up. Like knowing we don't have to worry about them running out of water.

Loved the service and the product! We need more businesses like this! Thanks!!

Changed out my old cups (with the little yellow valve thingy) for these new self-filling cups from Rentacoop. They’re great. The other cups were always empty while these are always full. The chickens (and ducks) seems to like them better.

Awesome

My chicks love them and figured out how to use them so fast! Helps keep the water clean. They were very easy to install. Thank you for the bonus one!

The chickens and I really love our new waterer. It keep their water clean and my hens happy.

I ordered 100 of the picker waters and they didn't work, see the rentacoop on line ordered a pack and I love them

Seems lot better than other kind.

I bought these and some cheaper off brand ones last month. These are great, still working and easy to clean, no problems. The cheaper off brand ones have already broke and the inside of the cup is no longer smooth and easy to clean. I will definitely buy more of these

I soon as I installed it it seemed that I was working great and my chickens took to it quick, but the next day I noticed a puddle of water under one of the cups, and the one cup keeps filling up and spilling over so it defeats the purpose of the system, I’m just disappointed cuss I thought this was going to be a good product and it wasn’t a cheap price for plastic cups any ways I wish I could fix it some how.

I prefer the cups for my flock They are wonderful This company has the best well made products Highly recommend their products

Love them will order again soon!

Love these cups. So much better then the ones the chickens have to figure out how to make the water come out. I replaced all my older style cups with these.

Love the drinking cup, it works great keeping the water cleaner and accessible!

I tried it right away and the chicken love it, it's easy to install and doesn't leak.

Love the drinking cups and so do my chickens. Fast delivery and to my surprise I received two complimentary cups. THANK YOU!

I wasn't really sure about these but they are THE BOMB! My chickens took two seconds to figure them out and they work brilliantly. I take a micro-cloth out with me folded up and simply wipe the wood shavings out of the bowls every time I check the water supply but really, the solid settle to the bottom and the water up top is clean, I just really want these chicks to thrive. I am really glad I found these as the only others I found like these were cheap Chinese junk that were crap and not worth the money.

By far the best water cup for your chickens... all others are junk in comparison... I love this, my chickens love this.. I will never buy anything but this in the future...

Good idea