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I moved the girls into their new home over the weekend and they're loving all the space! I hung the 1/2 gal. jug (with the vert. nipple on the bottom) inside the coop and they're all drinking well from it. Trouble is it's creating a huge mess underneath - I'm using a thick layer of pine flake...

I got my shipment of vertical nipples over the weekend. I put one into a 1/2 gal bottle, hung it over the brooder with a cord so just the nipple went through the mesh and the girls took to it *immediately*! Unfortunately, it made too much of a mess in the brooder, but it gives me confidence that...

I have to say, I am really enjoying seeing everyone's solutions! I'm a few weeks out from having the coop/run finished, so I'm going to have to get put something together soon. I'm really curious about this system from Al Capon - it's a cool setup: Why have it in this shape? Is it just for...

My order of cups arrived this past weekend so I tried installing one on an old 64oz juice bottle. My 6 chicks took to it right away...until it was empty. Then they pecked at the trigger a little, but not enough for water to come out so they didn't really "figure it out". I read that you can try...

As the hens peck & drink from the horizontal nipples, does it keep pretty dry around the waterer? I'm not worried about summer/fall weather, but I'm thinking I'm going to need to bring what ever system inside their small coop in the winter. I'd like to keep the place as dry as possible.

Yup- plan is to not lock them up unless absolutely necessary. Maybe only a few days here and there in the winter months. We have plenty of neighborhood help for IF we ever get to go on vacation. Back on topic- I think I'm leaning more towards cups at this stage, but the best part is that this...

I'm not trying to highjack the intent of this tread, but I'm going off what I've read (in books, not the Internet) and by my neighbor's advice. He has raised chickens for well over 10 years and his coop is only 4' x 8' with 13 birds. None of his birds fight. They all lay (except for his...

I live in central VA and it can get pretty cold overnight in winter (it usually can hit a night or two of single digits), but the days usually warm up pretty nicely. That said, had anyone tried heat tape (gutter heaters) to keep lines from freezing in the winter? As for the size of my coop - I...

I like that - I have a bunch of old brewing pails that I could use in this application. Good enough for beer, good enough for chicken water! What's it sitting on, is that a 4x4 post?

Thanks for the input - I've been reading more and more each day about waterers and it's like noses, everyone has one and they're all different/similar in many ways. I think I'm not sold on the nipples, but I would like to try the cups. I may even do both (a traditional waterer and the cups) and...

I'm an avid DIYer and am building my first coop for our 6 hens (god, I hope they all turn out to be hens!). Coop size is 48"x48"x48", 36" off the ground. I know that I don't want a "traditional" waterer because in taking care of others birds, I've seen how messy these can be. I also know that...