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Quote: Yes, and no. They will use them (my ducks use the ones I set up for the chickens) but they ALSO need water deep enough for them to clear their nares. (Nostrils.) If they don't have water deep enough to put their heads into, after eating, they can have difficulty swallowing their feed.

Quote: Yes, thank you. As I was taking the photographs, I realized I needed to raise it again. I'd lowered it for the bantams, originally, and now that the LF chicks are taller, I was trying to achieve a sort of happy medium. Off to raise the waterer. Thanks, Neil!

I built it myself, with nipples ordered from FarmTek. I have a bucket waterer in the run, with 3 nipples, a 1 gallon milk jug waterer in one coop, and a pitcher waterer in another. (But I understand a BYCer sells the nipples much more cheaply, due to the really high shipping cost from...

I've got a nipple waterer in my brooder. The chicks learn how to use it really quickly. It's SO much less messy (like zero mess), and no poop or shavings in the water, so it stays clean for them. I'll be back in a few minutes with a photo of how I'm using one in my current brooder (but the...