You don't have to hang the horizontal nipple waterer. Many place it on cement blocks. In Michigan you'll surely need something to keep it from freezing. A store bought one might be this.
https://www.amazon.com/Farm-Innovators-HB-60P-Poultry-Drinker/dp/B005BV1WLE
Update on the waterer set up shown above:
This is for the one I have listed as Outside Set-up.
Last night it went down to 16°, I went out this morning and noticed that 3 of the 5 nipples had frozen. Not a hard freeze, I had to just tap on the nipple a touch to get the water to flow again. I'm...
I am not sold on that idea yet. There has been a change in the eggshell thickness for sure now that they are off layer feed. The shells are not nearly as hard to crack now. I switch to "all flock" by Nutrena which has slightly more calcium then the grower I was using. So I hope that helps. I...
You could see them trying to pull the food out onto the floor with the old one, sometimes successful sometimes not. So far I have not seen any pellets on the floor from the 5 gallon bucket feeder. Maybe it's because their head is more confined/surrounded. I like the 5 gallon buckets to be hung...
Can some please correct thread title to read Waterers and not Waters???? :he
After seeing many different setups on BYC and online here is what I am currently using and really like the results.
Waterers:
Very clean water, have not had any freezing issues using 50watt and 100 watt aquarium heater...