Chicken water nipples reviews?

Picture of Gatorade bottle setup. Used wire just under the rim of the cap and taped it down around the main body of the bottle and hung using 36# trot line wire. All parts were things I had besides the nipple.
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I know this is an old thread, but I also live in NE. I would like to replace the hose I have coming out of my 275 gal tank with pvc and run a heating coil around it . I would lke to put the horizontal waterers into the pcs in the coop. any thoughts?
 
Well one additional idea!! Get one of those dog collar cones, used to keep a dog from chewing stitches . And put it around your rope , it just drops down around top of bucket, my girls will sit up on anything.
 
Do you have to put a hole near the top of the 5 gal bucket with the horizontal nipples for the water to come out properly?
 
Mostly useless.

  • Ducks use the to shower/play with, spilling it all over. Even with a water bucket & pond nearby.
  • Chickens are messy with it, sending water everywhere. But not as much as the ducks.
  • Quail spill it about, more so than the chickens. Fast to learn nipples (even rodent types)
  • Turkeys...actually aren't as bad. When you can get them all to remember its there.

Winter's coming: -30C/-22F winters means I'll soon be back to the basic open water dish for the next 7 months. I'm looking forward to starting them up again since there's far less water spilled in comparison to nipples.
 
I have used the nipples on 5 gal buckets for the last 3 years inside the coops in the winter and outside in the pens during the summer. I switch the lids out on the buckets for winter to the paint pour lids so, I can put a bird bath heater in the pail. Last winter was colder than normal and our temps stayed below 20 degrees for several weeks with (-) temps at night and bird bath heaters worked Great! I even had one I used outside in a 3 gal. rubber feed pan and it kept water from freezing for my turkeys. No Frozen Water with 50 - 95 watt Bird Bath Heaters!!! The only problem I had is that a few of nipples started leaking and caused a frozen mess under those buckets. I put rubber feed pans under the bucket but once the frozen mound was there, I couldn't get rid of it till temps got better.

I know others have used the much cheaper aquarium heaters in buckets but, I wanted to use heaters designed for exterior winter water heating.

I am switching to the Solway side mount nipples for this winter. I found 5 gal food grade buckets at the resale shop so, hoping this winter is totally leak free.
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Do you have to put a hole near the top of the 5 gal bucket with the horizontal nipples for the water to come out properly?

Very few of the bucket lids fit air tight on the bucket, with that being said your system should not be sealed 100%. You have to let a little bit of air enter so it replaces the water when it comes out. It doesn't take a lot of air to replace the small amount of water a chicken drinks each time he goes for a drink. Personally if I thought that no air was getting in my system I would put a tiny hole in the lid before I put another hole in my bucket. It would be simpler to just not put the lid on super tight and let a little air in that way. After all you do have to remove the lid (in most cases) to add water when its empty.
 

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