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Quote: This is true. Our high temp. for the day was 96* F. That's actual temp., not heat index. I changed out water in both coops this morning and again this evening. I got 9 eggs from 12 three year old hens in the brahma coop and 12 eggs from 12 one year old hens in my larger coop. Two...

The OPs question was "How often to change the water?" (in the title). That doesn't make don't worry about changing it every day a "specific fact". It makes it an opinion, like the rest of our responses.

By the way, you don't have to waste the water coming out of the waterers at change time. Five gallon buckets (our Atwoods, similiar to a TSC, has sales on them regularly) are a very handy thing to have on a farm. The dirty water is dumped into them. The water can then be used to water plants...

Quote: I don't think it's absurd at all. I have the time, I have the inclination, and several sources of nice cold well water (there is a total of 4 wells on the farm, counting one at the other end of the farm). My DH encourages me to use the wells as often as I need to, since we are on...

Quote: My brahmas, 13 in the coop, don't usually go through all the water in their 3 gal. waterer a day, even in the heat of summer, it's true. My other coop right now has somewhere close to 30 chickens in it and two five gallon waterers. I have seen them come close to emptying their...

Quote: But, chickens don't have stomachs. One more reason I change the water daily, chickens tend to be messy eaters. By the end of the day with them going back and forth between their feeder and leaving food in and on their beaks and to the waterer, the water in the basin gets nasty.

We ended up needing to buy some bulk ice yesterday when we went to town for groceries. The ice is "clean" in the cooler, so today the chickens are benefitting. They have several large bowls of melting ice to choose from for drinking, plus the dripping hose. Sometime today I'll be pulling out...

I agree with Em and Terri; especially with a long hot summer ahead of us. If you were outside all day, really hot and thirsty, would you want to drink warm, dirty water? My chickens got ice water several times today, in addition to a dripping hose from a deep, cold well. To me it's not an...