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LOL, I must be just like him, I do the same with the dog when he looks at me with those big brown eyes....(he must be starving right to death...)
Blessings,
Laura
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I too have noticed that my chickens will drink out of mud puddles and standing water when I let them out of the coop, and I've worried that they don't get enough through the nipples. I think that's normal. But I've also noticed that they were fine when I left them confined to their...
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Neil,
I know you sell these nipples and I agree with you.
If I were running a commercial poultry farm, I would use nipple waterers to maintain cleanliness.
But I dont. I have a backyard flock. I dont have to run it as a commercial business. I have the ability to keep 7 chickens...
jmagill, I am not saying that the nipple waterers did not have their advantage, because cleanliness is VERYY important to me. I will ALWAYS use them for chicks.
However, I do feel they were not drinking as much with the nipple waterers than with the traditional waterer.
Yes, I had good egg...
With the winter here, I have decided it will be easier to get a galvanized waterer with a heated base instead of using the nipple waterers.
I could keep my water from freezing with my nipple waterer, but the nipples were not always un-frozen. A drop would freeze here & there & they would lock...