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  1. S

    Is a 200 watt bird bath heater safe to use in plastic bucket waterer?

    I'm choosing between winter watering systems reliable to zero F, which won't happen often but often enough. I happen to have an unused 200 watt bird bath water heater (API Model WPU300). It has a built in 40F shut off themostat. QUESTION.... Is 200 watt too much for a plastic...
  2. C

    I NEED HELP!

    Hello community! I’m having a very hard time finding a way to give my chickens water. I’ve spent well over $100 on buckets and containers for water. Every single one of them leaks! Ive even attached water bowls to a bucket and somehow it still leaks out leaving my chickens dying of thirst the...
  3. Chick water station

    Chick water station

    I have seen so many posts on here from frustrated chick newbies - such as myself, with questions about how to keep their chicks from kicking up shavings into their waterer. And we all know, as they grow, they don’t get any cleaner. When my chicks were about 3 weeks old I had one day where I had...
  4. jjhllnd

    Humidity???

    How important is tight humidity control. I feel like I am stressing over it to much. I can’t seem to keep the humidity at 58-60. It stays around 65-70 constantly. What are the effects of the this? What is the appropriate humidity range? Also I have played with the plugs but it didn’t help...
  5. Amy Weaver

    Best Water Bowl for New Coop

    Right now, we have a small coop and run, so we use nipple waterers, but when the girls are out of the run, I provide large bowls of water and they love it. When we get our larger coop at the end of September, how do I use large bowls of water without them constantly getting dirty. As I type...
  6. K

    How clean does chicken water REALLY need to be?

    So my plan is to go straight from my galvalume metal roof into an aluminum gutter, thru a screen, and into a food safe 300 gal black cistern (black to control algae). From there, I’ll dip it out into buckets which go to 1/2” pvc with red drinker nipples. in the pvc pipe before it gets to the...
  7. Khaki mama

    Dirty duck pool

    We have two khaki Campbell ducks that both love their kiddie pool in their coop, however I have to clean it out every 2 or 3 days because of how dirty it gets and if I wait a day longer it gets all green and gross. Just wondering if theres any chemicals that I could put In their duck pool that...
  8. TT43

    Chicks and water nipple question

    How do you get chicks to use water nipples instead of the regular waterer where they can just dip their beak? Im struggling here. The same when I tried to convert my 18 week hens over. They seem clueless. I don't want them to thirst to death so I leave another water option out for them as well.
  9. PioneerChicks

    My pigeons are pooping in their water

    Hi! I have two Birmingham Rollers in a small loft. I plan on making a bigger loft soon, but that's a different story! I am new to pigeons, I have had these two only a month or two. And I have a small problem. I am currently using a chick waterer that I used to use for my chickens. But my loft...
  10. Nellylee

    It’s hot, electrolytes for how long?

    I live in Arizona and we’ve been trying to keep our chickens cool with tarps, misters and now electrolytes. I read that you are not supposed to give them electrolytes long term due to the salt. What else should I give them to help them out? They seem to really like the electrolyte though.
  11. R

    Cleaning Chicken Water container

    Hello! Maybe a silly question but how do you clean a chickens plastic water container after using VetRx in it? I had been putting a couple of drops of VetRx in their water for about a week and I went to throughly clean it out this morning with soap and water but it still had a sticky residue...
  12. Chris_HV_NY

    Cleanliness of coop, water, feed - me vs neighbor

    I have a debate going on with a neighbor who also has chickens. I am stringent about cleanliness and she makes fun of me for being too fussy. Maybe I am or maybe she is being foolish. In her coop the chickens roost in the rafters above her nesting boxes, her water supply, and feed supply. She...
  13. Ozarkhomesteader

    Is it dangerous to let ducks swim in water runoff?

    Hello everyone! I have a small flock of 5 ducks that are currently penned up near the house in a chicken tractor. This winter, I am working on fencing off the back half of the property (about half an acre) to give the livestock (ducks, chickens, turkeys and hopefully goats) more room to...
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  14. TheChiggens

    As winter hits! What to use for water?

    What are the best water bowls for winter? With chickens. Its realy discouraging every morning to crack ice. And throuh out the day. As temps are in the teens. It continues to be a time consuming chore. Its hard to decide heated water bowl, rubber bowl, nipples, metal bowl? I have kinda a low...
  15. CvilleDon

    Question about heating water in the coop

    I have a hanging 5 gallon bucket with horizontal nipples inside my 4' x 8' coop. I want to put a heater inside the bucket to keep it from freezing on really cold nights. I'm also hoping the heated water will act as a radiator to slightly warm the coop for my 4 hens, but I don't want to over heat...
  16. ginny_e

    Cold frame for keeping water from freezing?

    Hi all, I have had my 4 chickens for a year and a half now, and just added two Indian runner ducks this past summer. I made it through last winter by using the black rubber feeder bowls and changing the water in the morning and evenings. We live in Massachusetts, so get some pretty cold temps...
  17. Poppy Putentake

    Low-Tech Winter Waterers -- Insulated and otherwise

    Here is how to make the simple waterers I have been using for my small (5 birds) flock of chickens through Vermont winters. No electricity needed! For insulated waterers, I start with two plastic containers like these. One will fit inside the other. The inner one originally held about 11 oz...
  18. Emak2323

    Farm Innovators 250 Watt Stock tank deicer - question!

    Hey all - I recently got the 250 Watt Stock tank deicer. The instructions mention two things: 1. don't use an extension cord (which I would need to), and 2. Install a ground rod 8 ft deep. Have others done this?? I can't find anything in other articles or posts about this. Temps are already...
  19. Quail_Kid

    Help! 11 degrees ºF outside and need some water!

    My water heaters are working fine but the water cups are frozen. So I am manually giving them water in bowls but I have to go out there every 30 minutes and get out the ice and refill. Can I use Snow for them to drink?
  20. emilyenorris

    Silkie hen went for a swim. . . frozen.

    Yesterday I came home from work and found my free range silkie hen in the goat water bowl. It was in the 30s yesterday. Her head was dry. I am guessing she fell in and could not get out. It is one of the rubber bowls that are about a foot deep. I have never had one fall in that I am aware of...
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