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Great ideas, thx!

Question for those in the know, when temps start getting 95+ I'm thinking of putting their old waterer back in the coop, so they have two sources of water, nipple bucket in run, floor waterer in coop. Just because it gets HOT here. Any problem with that idea? Will they stop using nipple bucket?

OMG! BRILLIANT!

Mine just figured it out today, yay! I only have 3, so I took the floor water away for an hour, waited until after they ate (figured the chick mash would make them thirsty!) Then started tap-tap-tap, they rushed over to the drops of water & the boldest started to peck, and ta-dum! They are...

I can't wait until mine start using it, I'm getting tired of cleaning out their water 3-4X a day!

Thanks! I let them out a little tonite and tried to get them to go up the ramp & stuck their beaks in the nipples, although they still seemed to get trapped & cry in the run when the sun went down so I had to lift them into coop again! Tomorrow I'm going to set them free during the day!

I've moved my three girls outside into the coop, and would like to give them free reign of the run as well, but am worried they'll get stuck in the run and not be able to figure out the ladder to get back into the coop, and the waterer they are used to, before getting dehydrated. I let them out...

I just bought that same one to use with my three chicks, maybe I'll wait until they get a little bigger to try it. I wonder if it would be useful to get one vertical one, like the one shown by @debid to get them used to the concept? I went horizontal because I was hoping there would be less...