I found the same initial issue with the red nipple or horizontal nipple. They were to “weak to depress it properly. Only two or three of the eleven chicks could sometimes accidentally do it. The black tip or vertical is the one I have gone with and they all use it well. They are a week old...
Just purchased my 🐥 🫣🥰 I am so nervous and excited! They will hatch the first week of March and arrive the second week. Will continue spending the winter cleaning the rest of our fire supply of lumbar out of our yard, to make room for the coop and run and learning all I can about the girls. So...