Brower 4GF 4 Gallon Poly Poultry Fount, Top Fill

Four gallons covers 75 pullets or 150 chicks. For a brooder full of chicks it is usually the right size, since you want to be dumping and refilling often at that age anyway.

Because you can clean it. The 4.5 inch opening lets your hand and a brush inside the tank, and the trough lifts off so you can do both separately. A sealed jar fount you can only rinse and hope.

Yes, two built in handles. Fill it at the hydrant and carry it in rather than dragging a hose to the coop.

The tank is marked in one gallon increments down the side. Read the mark and dose to it, no measuring into a bucket first.

No. It is seamless poly, which is the whole point of the Dura-Fount. Use one of these and you will not buy another double wall galvanized fount.

On its own, yes. The trough fits the AEB automatic electric fount base, 100 watts at 115 volts, which keeps it open into the single digits in a sheltered area. It is not built for the open yard with a wind chill on it.

The red base, poly cap, cup insert, fount closure and both o-ring sizes, all stocked here and all shared with the 7GF.

Four gallons at 16 inches tall suits 75 pullets or 150 chicks. Seven gallons at 21 5/8 inches suits 90 hens, 140 pullets or 140 broilers. Same diameter, same trough, same parts, so it is purely a question of how often you want to be filling it.