I am so sorry to hear about your brahma Snowk!
Since we are free ranging the hens during the day, I can't really tell if they are using it for sure or not! I feel that they did before we started free ranging on a consistent basis, and won't really know for sure until this winter when it will...
I am not going to listen to the guys anymore LOL.
And I am ordering some chicks and was going to get a standard chick waterer (which I might, just to have on hand "just in case" - yes I know, more confidence please! LOL), but I bought some chicken nipples on ebay today so I can make my own...
Well the hens are still making it difficult for me to convince my husband that they are actually drinking from the chicken nipple bucket!
Yesterday we went fishing and were gone most of the day. I do not let the chickens out to range when we are not home, so they stayed locked up in their...
Thank you for the replies! I figured nipples had been used for many years as any other type of watering system for commercial production would be difficult.
It just looked bad when I had been insisting they were getting enough water from the nipple bucket and then they bolt for the horse...
We just recently acquired a few chickens and I switched them over to a chicken nipple water bucket. They seemed to be doing fine with it - until I started free ranging them during the day.
Now, my husband and my Dad have been critical of the chicken nipples from the get-go, but I insisted it...