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    Not getting enough water from nipple waterer?

    If you only use the rubber bowls, or any other waterer, in the winter they should be fine with the nipples. Why do you think they are not getting enough water? Is there snow on the ground? When there's snow of the ground here, mine drink less water out of the waterer. I know this as I roughly...
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    Not getting enough water from nipple waterer?

    I would say both those have vacuum release. It takes time to 'train' them to use nipples. You can't just put it out there and expect them to automatically be comfortable with using it.
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    Not getting enough water from nipple waterer?

    One of the reasons I didn't go with a pipe system.
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    Not getting enough water from nipple waterer?

    It definitely takes more than one day. Here's my thoughts on 'nipple training'. First, it's good to know how much water your flock consumes 'normally', I top off water every morning and have marks on the waterers so I know about how much they drink. found they drank just as much from the...
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    Not getting enough water from nipple waterer?

    What I did was monitor the daily intake with the open waterer, for months before I changed to nipples, so I knew how much they drank. Then I could compare it what they drank daily from the nipples. Birds will charge towards a new water source just like they charge new foods tossed out...
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    Not getting enough water from nipple waterer?

    They will partake when seeing any other water source, be it a dish, puddle, drops on the fence, snow banks. etc. I top off water every morning and have marks on the waterers so I know about how much they drink. Found they drank just as much from the nipples as they did from the open waterer...
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