Much in the garden can and should be done with your own hands. Often this requires very little time and a minimum of material costs. In addition, it is not necessary to be a professional - many crafts can even be a beginner. For example, various devices for drinking migratory and poultry.
Appointment
Naturally, drinking bowls for songbirds in shape, size, design are very different from water supply systems for poultry.
Since time immemorial, people have been raising chickens for dietary meat and eggs. Productivity of laying hens directly depends on the thought over system of food and drink. They should be convenient and easy to use. Therefore, it is often easier to think through and make do-it-yourself drinkers for poultry, than to look for suitable ones in stores for a long time. The best thing is to set up an uninterrupted system for them to fill up their drinking tanks with water.
Another thing is the do-it-yourself decorative decorative drinking bowls for birds in the garden. They attract birds, which help fight insect pests, and at the same time serve as elements of landscape decoration. It is not difficult to construct them from available materials, having free time for this and a little imagination.
Features
Surely there are some unnecessary items in the household that you can use to make do-it-yourself drinking bowls for birds. A variety of improvised materials will be used: cement, gypsum, wire, wood, as well as plastic bottles - where without them!
The simplest bird's drinker is a bowl in various modifications. It is filled with water manually. This idea can be remarkably developed and made an exclusive designer gizmo for your favorite garden.
To create vacuum drinking bowls for birds with your own hands, you just need to slightly improve the usual one.
The basis of its action is the phenomenon of fluid pressure in vessels, familiar from the school course of physics. Part of the water from the neck of the inverted bottle is poured into a flat container, and the pressure in both containers is balanced. When the water level drops in the plate, an airless layer forms between the two layers of water, and, due to the pressure difference, the water is again poured into the lower tank until they are balanced. Therefore, the water in the plate is always replenished automatically, and it remains only to monitor the fullness of the bottle, periodically filling it to the top. This idea is much more convenient, since in an ordinary bowl the water quickly evaporates and is sprayed by birds.
Drinking bowls for songbirds - garden decoration
First you need to think about where they are best installed. Since birds are usually attracted to the garden to fight harmful insects, it is advisable to leave water for drinking in these places. It is better to place the drinkers in the shade so that it does not evaporate too quickly.
Given these points, you can create several cozy corners in the garden, decorated with a variety of man-made devices for birds. For such an interior drinking bowl, it’s enough to pick up a beautiful durable bowl and decorate it with pebbles, tiny plaster figures of birds, fish, frogs.
Leaves in the grass
If you have the desire and time to do something truly man-made and unique, you can use the following idea. It will take a little cement and water - for mixing the solution. You also need some kind of flat surface for the workplace - a regular piece of plywood is suitable.
As a decorative form, you can use a large leaf of cabbage or burdock. For painting it is very important to choose a paint that is resistant and non-toxic. Otherwise, a sharp chemical smell will scare away the birds. Still need: protective varnish, plastic wrap, fine sandpaper and gloves for hand protection.
The surface of the desktop should be covered with plastic wrap or newspaper for protection. Cement mortar is mixed in a separate container. It should be sufficiently plastic - about like sour cream. You need to pour a little sand on the work surface with a slide - about this depth will be a garden drinking bowl for birds. With their own hands, first a film is laid on the sand, then a burdock leaf to shape the cup. Next is the cement mixture, it needs to be leveled by hand, watching the thickness of the layer - it should be uniform throughout the area. After this, the craft remains for about a day, and after complete drying, you can start creating an exclusive do-it-yourself drinker for birds from a plain blank.
Use sandpaper to carefully sand the surface. Not only the appearance of the product, but also its durability depends on this. The next stage of work is painting. Paints are better to choose natural shades. An interesting effect is obtained if the top and bottom of the sheet are painted with different tones of the same color. After staining, the container needs to be thoroughly dried again. Now you can apply a final coat of varnish to protect the surface from destruction by water and wind. If you fashion several such leaves, you will get a lovely garden composition, where flocks of chirping birds will flock with pleasure to drink water.
Hanging drinking bowl
To make this masterpiece, you will need ordinary dishes such as a deep cup.
The material should be such that it is easy to make holes - for example, transparent plastic. Making such a drinker for birds with your own hands will not take much time and effort. It’s great that all supplies are available. Since the design is supposed to be elegant, airy, the cup should choose a suitable design. In addition, you will need thick wire or ready-made mounts in the shape of an S, a decorative rope or a metal chain.
First, at the edges of the bowl, you need to make a symmetrical layout for four holes. You can make them with a hot awl or even a nail. For suspension, you need to take two identical lengths of chain or rope. S-shaped wire hooks are passed through the holes in the container at one end and looped at the ends of the chain or rope with the other. If you take a glass bowl with wide, bent down, edges, then the hooks simply hook on the edges of the bowl. The finished drinker can be hung on a tree branch and filled with water. If the bowl is made of light material, several stones can be put on the bottom for greater stability.
Hemp Nest
Another idea is how to make a drinker for birds with your own hands and at the same time to refine the stump of a sawn tree.
It is better to choose a bowl from any natural material, for example clay or wood, natural warm colors. Its diameter should be larger than sawed in a circle. The wire frame is also formed in the form of a bowl and is firmly fixed to the hemp. First, a “nest” woven from thin branches and dry grass is laid in it, and the drinker itself is installed on top. In this case, it can be safely removed for washing. The stump can be painted, decorated or coated with a protective varnish.
Vacuum drinker
You can improve the previous option - to make a drinker for birds with your own hands from a plastic bottle.
An inverted bottle is placed in a suitable small but deep dish. It is important that its neck is below the edges of the container, otherwise the water will spill out all the time. This simple structure is fastened with two thick wire clamps connected to the bowl. To make it more decorative, it is worth looking for a beautiful unusual bottle and a transparent bowl for water. Wire fasteners can also be turned into a design element.
From reviews of vacuum drinkers:
“The simpler the better!” Simple, cheap and efficient. What you need! Why buy expensive factory waterers if you can make the same from a simple bottle, and almost for free. ”
“Any drinker needs to be changed more than once a week, but more often so that the water does not stagnate.”
For the house
Here, too, much is completely capable of doing with our own hands. Drinking bowls and bird feeders, for example. However, in this case, the device can be convenient, functional and at the same time decorative.
Based on this principle, the simplest is the vacuum drinking bowl described above. It is worth considering that chickens are quite large birds. They can strongly push the drinker, so it must be securely fixed to the wall, preferably not with a wire, but with a metal strip. The bottom pan should also be reasonably stable.
