Finally got around to taking some pics of the watering system and feeders I put together. When thinking it through, I didn't want the water bowls or whatever held the water to be fixed in place. I knew because of dust and idiotic male dogs that piss in their water I would have to have a way to periodically empty and wash the containers. What I ended up doing was using buckets held in place with snaps. Then I built a watering system where each bucket has a pipe extending down from the framework. The system is run by an irrigation system timer which turns on at a set time and waters for a set time. I measured how long it would take to fill all buckets from empty to full...3 minutes. Obviously the buckets are never completely empty so the excess just runs over and down the drain. So far it works flawless, and the only time I touch the buckets is once a week to rinse them out. Then press the manual cycle button and they all automatically refill once again. Also with all the piping being overhead, when the system turns off, everything drains by gravity so no water will remain if it should freeze outside.
For the feeders, I opted to use a custom designed feeder that I had made by T-N-T Body Works out of Florida (Gale Tuggle always has a booth set up at Uncle Earls). I like the feeders because they mount to the outside of the door, and my kids can easily feed without having to open the kennels. Puppy feeders are the same, just a little larger size. No bowls to have to find and wash the piss out of, move around to wash, or anything like that.
