- Nov 20, 2007
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I feel really silly asking this, I'm not a newbie, but I've never used one of the traditional galvanized chicken waterers, and I'm taking care of a friend's chickens and that's what she uses. It's a very large one, and it appears to be sitting on maybe a heated base. It has a handle on the top, but when I tried to pick it up the water started glugging down into the reservoir, so I'm afraid that if I lift it by the handle, will the whole top of the thing pull off and the water will go everywhere? Am I supposed to lift it from the bottom? I hate not being able to inspect it empty first so I can see how it works, and it's in a dimly lit corner of the coop so I really can't see much! Fortunately it seems heavy enough right now that they should have plenty of water for today but I do need to figure this out, hopefully without soaking myself and her coop! Also, once I've got it out of the coop, how to I disassemble it to fill it, and is there a trick to flipping it back over without dumping water all over myself, or what am I doing with this thing?