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Remove the HN's and apply some food grade silicone and put them back in, but not as tight... should work... OR tap the holes with a 1/8" pipe tap to add some threads... I used the tap on PVC pipe to put the nipples in...

Demonstrate 15 times a day if necessary..... Hold a chick under the nipple and drip water into it's beak... over and over and over... then grab the nearest chick that has been watching and do it again..... after the move they need electrolytes to reduce the stress...

horizontal....

On my water nipples, when the chickens drink, a few drops run down the pipe and land on the ground... It's all sand so it sinks in....

The only thing I can tell you is my 7 chickens have drank about 1 gallon per day, for the last 4 months I have had them... hot or cold weather... So, that's about 1 pint each... You may have been losing more water with the old system... dripping on the ground... hard to say for sure...

Here is what I have done for outside access to feeders..... A pipe with a cap and nipples added would work for waterers.... The upper feeder is for adding treats to the coop....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/915954/water-system-heated-and-cooled And it's all plugged into the Thermo Cube.... temp controlled.... so it don't run all the time...

On the subject of water..... My 7 birds drink 1 gallon of water per day.... BUT... this is the desert and we have low humidity... And their run is totally covered in tin roofing so the run is dusty dry.... no rain can get to the ground... no grass grows.... they eat alfalfa hay freely...

Good point...... Maybe the 3/8 were a little big... Heavens, I'm to old to remember what I had for dinner yesterday....

Does Rich sell the horizontal nipples..... or a different brand..... just curious.... so we are all on the same page.... I tried a 3/8 drill and the holes was a little small and the nipple leaked... went to an 11/32 drill and it worked perfect.... I was drilling into 1" thin wall PVC...

I copied it from a listing on e-bay.... I think that seller is a member on this forum.... Good guy to deal with... I bought my nipples from him...

This is from one of the sellers site.... 5 Horizontal Poultry Nipples Horizontal poultry nipples don't drip and leak like vertical nipples tend to do. Chickens easily learn how to use them and you can feel confident that your birds are drinking clean water. The tapered thread makes it a...

Water nipples only work under low pressure ( 5.5 psi or less ). Do not conect directly to a garden hose ( house water pressure is around 30 to 75 psi ). If you want to have it connected directly to a garden hose then a water pressure reguator is required. conversely, if the bucket has only 3...

I had to trip the nipple waterer so it dripped water while the chickens were watching, about 4 times... didn't take long and they figured it out... If they have never seen a nipple waterer, they may not figure it out... they will need help...

Here is what I did with the horizontal nipples in an insulated cooler.... https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/915954/water-system-heated-and-cooled#post_13944689 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FK03E8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1