Chicks keeping spilling water and getting their bedding in it...

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DebB11

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Mar 21, 2011
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They (6) are in the brooder box but they run through the water, spill it, get the bedding all in it..... I bought them a week ago and they are WILD already...LOL

Should I/ can I raise the water trough? We have the smaller plastic waterer with the smaller mason jar.
 
I find no point in putting in those smaller, tippy water fonts. I just use the "full size" 1.5 gallon size. They can't/don't tip those over.
Yup, the chicks run, fly, jump, and carry on. Which is why I am the broken record here on BYC for much larger brooders than what people normally assume will work. My brooder is 5'x8' for 12-20 chicks. Within a month, they use every square inch as their playground.
 
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Hi,

I have 10 almost week old baby chicks and they are racing around too. It's important to get the chick waterers and don't buy a large one and try to graduate them to it. They are only 2.00 at your local feed store and worth it as you don't want your chicks wet. My water fount is the metal base with a quart mason jar attached. It's quite heavy when filled and yesterday I placed it on a sanded 2x4 about 5"by 5". It's placed in the corner farthest from the light as chicks do not like warm water. They have not even come close to tipping it. I will have to place something on top when they start to take flight so they don't perch on top. Hope this helps. Get the metal base and the quart size jar.
 
I haven't yet seen them tip it, just running through it, and getting their bedding all in it. I have seen a couple perch on top of the mason jar too.
 
Raise it up on some wood blocks, bricks, whatever you have. Keep it just low enough they can reach it, not low enough to get bedding or feet in it.
 
I agree with the use of the larger waterers. This also helps when I have to be gone unexpectedly, they dont run out. I have 27 in my brooder, which is also oversized. I put a brick under my waterer also, it raises it and bedding is harder to throw in it. If I have smaller chicks in there (like bantams) with the larger ones I make them a step stool with smaller bricks.
 
get it off the floor, I have some quail rack that are used in a incubator, works great. or build a platform: a tray and a pan if they spill it go's in the tray and keeps your bedding dry. keep the waterer cleaner and prevents wicking ( when bedding or towling get in the water and drains the waterer)
 

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