I have been using the standard round waterer with the screw top mason or plastic half gallon top and circular trough below. It works fine but it tends to build up a film in the containerand continually they sat on top of it and poop would get in the water plus they would kick in the sawdust...
Our chicks were the picture of health, now one died last weekend and one this weekend! Background:
Last week our chicks wereabout 3 1/2 weeks old. The smallest chick, the Brahma, suddenly was down and having labored breathing.This happened in a matter of an hour! The chick had been the...
We are brand new to raising chickens. Have 2 Barred Rocks, 1 RIR, 1 Blk Autralorp and 1 Brahma. Have had them for two weeks, got when about 1 to 1 1/2 weeks old and they seemed to be doing fine. No loose poop, no runny nose and no apparent mites. Late tonight, I thought the little Brahma was...