How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

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Smokerbill said:
In spite of my screw up yesterday, the seven girls gave me 7 eggs today. I let them run out of water yesterday, possibly for several hours. :(

Today I'm going to rig up a 5 gallon water bucket to replace their 2 gallon waterer. And I'm going to check the grocery store for more of their thrown-away produce. Hope I find some so the girls will forgive me. LOL

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When my flock gets to scratching they fill up the cups of my 5 gallon waterer. I have waterer nipples on hand, planning on making a second waterer.
 
fuzzi said:
When my flock gets to scratching they fill up the cups of my 5 gallon waterer. I have waterer nipples on hand, planning on making a second waterer.
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I don't like seeing my chickens stuggle to get a good drink of water from the nipples, and it seems that more than half the water goes onto the ground instead of into the chickens.

I like the auto filling cups. I have the waterer set on a couple blocks so the cups are about neck-height to the chickens, and no stuff from the run floor ever gets in them. They do get a little dirt that's washed from the beaks and faces, though, but not much.

They're no good in freezing weather, and that's when I'll use horizontal nipples on a heated bucket. Plus I fill bowls with warm water first thing in the morning.
 
I think I made it up to my girls for letting them go thirsty yesterday. I found two boxes of tossed out produce at the store, sorted through it all and provided an all-you-can-eat buffet to my chickens.

Heads of iceberg lettuce, radishes with tops, celery hearts with leaves, mung bean sprouts, tomatoes, apples, grapes, a couple bags of salad mix, broccoli, bok choi, cucumbers, zucchini squash, blueberries, strawberries, red raspberries... I think that's everything I tossed into the run.

It'll probably take them a few days to eat it all, and they'll get a good internal cleanse to boot. Some, if not all of them get a little bit of the squirts when they eat like this, and I think that's a good thing. Helps flush out things that shouldn't be inside them. At least, that's my theory.
 

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