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post #1 of 5
7/9/12 at 4:57pm
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Hello,   I don't feel my chicken are drinking enough.  I keep their original 1 quart water feeder in their coop and they can go and drink anytime they want. I refill it once every other day. There are seven (7) chickens.  Another feeder is is using water cups (http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/cage_watering_kit.html) but I have them into pvc and a large bucket.  They have not gotten the hang of pecking at the yellow part and they get water.  Then I also have a gatorade bottle with a nipple.  I show them and they peck at it and then nothing - I's been 5 day with out refilling that one.  

 

How do I teach them to drink???? I prefer to get rid of the quart waterer and use the nipple or cup system.

 

Thanks for any help.

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post #2 of 5
7/10/12 at 8:10am

I have heard of people sticking grapes onto the bottom nub of the nipple waterers to get the chickens to peck at them and discover the water. Sorry I'm a newb, so I don't know much more than that lol! Hopefully more experienced members will weigh in on this. 

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Mama to 2 boys and 1 girl. Wife to my great Marine.
Chicken mama to: 1 Black Australorp (Izzy), 1 Blue Splash Marans (Buttercup), 1 Welsummer Bantam (Millie - our hernia gal), 1 Black Cochin Frizzle Bantam (Meep) - arrived home 8/22/12 

First egg 1/21/13 from Izzy! **RIP Izzy 4/3/13**

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post #3 of 5
7/10/12 at 9:01am

That actually sounds like a good idea ...my birds love grapes more than anything - RED ones.

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post #4 of 5
7/10/12 at 9:09am

If it was me the first thing I would do is put a bowl of water out there for them then see if they drink that water down any faster. 

 

How old are they, what are the temp's there [has it been hot say above 85] and are you putting anything in there water? 

 

 

Chris

 

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Breeding Large Fowl Single and Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds to APA Standard


"I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares." – 

George Washington

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post #5 of 5
7/10/12 at 10:19am

To get chickens to drink, I usually dip their beaks in the water so they "discover" it. Even then, they might be reluctant to drink from the waterers (especially if they're tall), so I sometimes set water for them inside plastic plates. As they get older, they'll probably get used to the large waterers.

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