Anyone noticed any difference in chickens when you include apple cider vinegar into the water?

[Folly's place]

What's funny too, is that nobody talks about the original pH of the water offered, or the pH of the water then treated with the proponent's favorite amount of vinegar/ gallon. As science, it's a total joke. As hearsay/ testimonials, just fine.
My birds get water straight from my well, with no added miracle amendments.
Mary

 

[Backyard Bruce]

I was on the ACV band wagon to start with but then read more into it and the benefits were/are minimal at best, Just not worth the extra bother IMO.
It's hard to beat pure straight water from my well, Mother Nature didn't really screw the pooch in that regard.

 

[BreanneRN]

Well, if you can get raw applecider vinegar that hasn't been pasteurized, it will have other things in it besides just acetic acid. I know Porter's Heritage Turkey site recommends it for all the hatchling turkey poults he sells. It helps them develop a healthy gut microbiome according to him... And he has raised a lot of turkeys, which by the way are harder to raise than chickens and seem to be more prone to disease, especially when newly hatched. The ACV is supposed to boot up the immune system to. But to each their own... As to that "pure well water", a lot of times after testing, people are pretty surprised to find out what all is in that...

 

[Folly's place]

That's true of everyone's water supply, and every year more things are added to the 'to be tested' list. And added vinegar of any sort doesn't fix any of that!
Mary

 

[chickens really]

Too funny I definitely am not on for hype...
Feed and fresh water is all that any Bird needs...