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    Nipple wateres vs. cups; My experience.

    Quote: Yes, but the majority are smaller flocks not commercial operations in the thousands. I take issue with a person who is known for selling nipples trying to steer people away from cups by saying "their use is restricted to third world countries" when there is nothing wrong with them for...
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    Nipple wateres vs. cups; My experience.

    Quote: So in other words you have no real reason to make that statement (besides that you obviously sell nipples or are some how invested in them). Yes I do sell nipple drinkers. There are nipple drinker systems components sitting on the dock right now that are to be shipped to the Carribean...
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    Nipple wateres vs. cups; My experience.

    Quote: I don't see why. With more experience and understanding of the situation I am sure you would recognize why. So in other words you have no real reason to make that statement (besides that you obviously sell nipples or are some how invested in them).
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    Poultry cup leak

    Quote: As I mentioned in the other thread try these these I have a better idea of what happened now. The original fittings that cracked, they cracked where you screwed the cup in correct? You really don't need more then 2 turns, the more you screw them in the more chance of cracking, they are...
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    Nipple wateres vs. cups; My experience.

    Quote: Sounds like it's leaking from your thread attachment. Unfortunately no matter what anyone says the idea of threading these or nipples directly into PVC holes is poor. Threads are meant to mate with threads, not make there own. I used silicone on the nipples which managed to seal the...
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    Nipple wateres vs. cups; My experience.

    Some photos for reference.
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    Nipple wateres vs. cups; My experience.

    I thought I would share my experience and why I ultimately am using cup waters. I originally bought nipple waters because they seemed to be the way to go as they are used quite extensively. The cup waters made more sense to me but they were more expensive and I saw more people using the nipples...
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    Barred rock w/ weak/shaly legs 9 weeks.

    We just got a barred rock a long with some other new chickens. The barred was given to us free along with them (maybe this is why, would have still taken her if told though, would have been nice to know). After the first day we noticed she would stumble a lot and then lay down and do whatever...
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    Sebright pullet is confused, crowing like a rooster, *video*

    Quote: We are 90% sure she's a hen, We got her at around 2 months just so we knew we would get a hen. But here's a pic. Either way she's going though unfortunately. Can have anything crowing.
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    Sebright pullet is confused, crowing like a rooster, *video*

    So she's a couple months old and definitely a hen, but she is confused, and thinks she's a rooster and keeps trying to crow, and rather successfully, finally caught one on camera. Ordinances say no roosters "or hens that crow" apparently... So she better quit. It's @ 4:33 ish if the link...
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    4 out of 5 are roosters? Ameraucanas

    Anyone experienced with ameraucanas have any input about the colors being so mixed? Is that just what roosters look like before they molt a second time, or do we have freakish mixed breeds (we are supposed to just have wheatons).
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    4 out of 5 are roosters? Ameraucanas

    Quote: Can't kill these, like them too much, will have to give them away, still too much of a city boy. We slaughtered 3 ducks last weekend and I don't care to do it again anytime soon (I didn't even like them). We have a young polish hen and solkie hen as well, about 2 weeks older. The...
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    4 out of 5 are roosters? Ameraucanas

    Quote: Besides the for sure rooster, their combs are about the same. By tripple row do you mean 3 bumps, because they all have more then one bump. Quote: 6 weeks and 4 days, I thought more time had passed then that. Quote: Yea, I have noticed that, they don't look like any of the...
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    4 out of 5 are roosters? Ameraucanas

    We bought 5 wheaton ameraucanas, as it looks we think we have 4 roosters and one hen. Only one chicken is actually mostly white/light. The rest have a lot of brown and black (one brown and blue). The differences I see is we have one definate rooster with a LOT of black and brown. Then we have 2...
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    3 month old attacked 5-6week old and drew blood.

    Well the polish is the boss of the young flock, but she's nice about it, just giving little pecks when someone gets in the way or challenges. I even see stuff like the silkie got scared into the air by one of the others and basically accidentally challenged him and he just got next/over her and...
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