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

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Good Posts. I have 6 crazy 5wk olds that don't know the meaning of resting. They roost on anything they can get their feet on, and poop everywhere including in the food and water. I water mine with a quart jar and a screw on trough that I set on a metal cookie tin (about 6in in dia) they can't get up on the tin so it stays clean. The food I haven't figured out yet. I might try using a rabbit feeder, cut a hole in the side of the brooder, and stick the feeder in. Keep the tips coming
 
I set my feeder and waterer up on a piece of plywood that is sitting on bricks or scraps of 4 x 4 lumber. That way the chicks can jump up on the plywood and easily reach everything, but no matter how hard they scratch at their shavings, shavings don't make it up onto the plywood. Everything stays shavings free.
 
And....we put in 8 eggs and all 8 have hatched. AHHHHH now I have to figure out where to put them all. I have 2 in the pen in the basement and now I have 8 to put in a plastic bin. that is not going to be big enough. I don't know if it is ok to put the 2 in the basement with the tweens outside yet...help
 
I have one of the waterers with the very small lip so there isn't much room for chips to get in and not enough of a ledge for them to stand on either, just enough space around the rim for water to collect and for their beaks to fit in. Still I set it up on a brick just at neck-height so they couldn't walk in it. My girls have started trying to dust bathe in their pine shavings so that throws it all over the place, not to mention flapping and scratching, so I just pour out a bit every morning or so if its full of bits or run my finger around to clean it out... Alternative is you could be a meany and put them in a hardware-cloth brooder with no shavings, but why do that when we can spoil them??
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