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    Fill gravity waterer from the top???

    Ok, here's a photo. The key is the ball valve, which is opened to allow water to flow if from hose, then closed to re-establish vacuum in bucket.
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    Fill gravity waterer from the top???

    Ok, I found a valve in my pvc junk. It has a large disc, about 3 inches in diameter covered with 'gauze' and the other side of the disc has a short threaded stem. You can blow through the stem and feel air rushing out the 'gauze', but try to suck and you get nothing. It''s a one-way flow...
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    Fill gravity waterer from the top???

    Ok, so we made the famous bucket with holes sitting in a large flower pot saucer waterer. The lid forms an airtight seal so all is well. Since we didn't want to hoist 5 gallons of water to fill and flip, I plumbed a valve on top for the hose to connect to, for filling. There's also a ball...
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    Nipple Waterer Info

    Quote: Same here, Neil; but I also emailed you.
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    Panicking! How to manage new chickens???

    We recently bought a property and asked the sellers to leave us a few chickens. They decided to leave all 20. So as we've spent days there fixing up the place (will move in later after prep is finished), the chickens free ranged everywhere. The sellers told us that they'd simply go back into...
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    Dog issues. Please read on.

    Good advice(s). Thanks!
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    Dog issues. Please read on.

    Ok, so now I'm getting confused. I had read other threads and learned that keeping dogs separate from chickens would be best. We will be moving into a farmhouse that already has a coop and run in the backyard, so I planned on constructing a dog run/area to keep my 2 dachshunds away from the...
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    Have you ever smelled your chickens?

    Hahaha! So true! Both our weiner dogs feet smell like Fritos, too. We even hold up their feet and say they have 'free-toes'.
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    Hello from NC

    Thanks folks. Gavin and Allison, we're just west of Winston-Salem.
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    Hello from NC

    One more thing... and I'm not sure where to post this: What questions should we ask the previous owners about the chickens or coop? I'm too ignorant of chickens to even know what questions to ask! Surely there are a few specifics that we need to be aware of before we're new chicken-parents.
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    Hello from NC

    Ok, we're launching into a whole new chickeny world. My wife and I are purchasing a property that already has a chicken coop, and one stipulation of the sale was that they leave some chickens for us. The realtor said he'd never included chickens in a contract before. Anyway, we're excited to...
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