Brooder Watering Help

[Cluckstar]

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My chicks keeping filling their water with shavings. It's non-stop. I could change my chick's water every 10 minutes and still find copious amounts of shavings flung in each time. Anyone got some good tricks or hacks for preventing this? I want their water to be clean and fresh, but it's been hard as I work full-time. I wasn't expecting this to be such an issue.

Thanks,
Mary.

 

[Cluckstar]

This is what I've got for a waterer. I have a 1 cup Mason Jar attached.

 

[Look at all them chickens]

My chicks keeping filling their water with shavings. It's non-stop. I could change my chick's water every 10 minutes and still find copious amounts of shavings flung in each time. Anyone got some good tricks or hacks for preventing this? I want their water to be clean and fresh, but it's been hard as I work full-time. I wasn't expecting this to be such an issue.

Thanks,
Mary.

How old are they? I am no expert by any means, we have ours on a square block of wood to keep the little demons from just flinging it in there. I swear I water more pine shreds at first then birds. I did see a cool trick to put their food and water over a Cat litter box that is buried in the pine shreds a bit with a small little ramp and have a small chicken wire like the less than 1/2 inch on top so all the food will fall down and the pine will not be up there so their water is clean. Mine are 3 and 4 weeks old and so ready for that stage !

 

[neo71665]

Raise it up to the height of their back. Keep it there (raising it) as they grow.

 

[Cluckstar]

How old are they? I am no expert by any means, we have ours on a square block of wood to keep the little demons from just flinging it in there. I swear I water more pine shreds at first then birds. I did see a cool trick to put their food and water over a Cat litter box that is buried in the pine shreds a bit with a small little ramp and have a small chicken wire like the less than 1/2 inch on top so all the food will fall down and the pine will not be up there so their water is clean. Mine are 3 and 4 weeks old and so ready for that stage !

That sounds interesting. Mine are about 3 & 4 four weeks as well. They're messy little beasts aren't they?

 

[Look at all them chickens]

Yes they are!! We had one the other day that jumped inside the food dispenser and couldn’t get her big butt out. Now I keep a bowl over the opening. I found a pic of the dish holder. Hope it helps. Building ours tomorrow. They are scratching now so the block isn’t working.

 

[NadineIvette]

Place it on a brick

 

[Cluckstar]

Place it on a brick

I failed to mention originally that I have the feeder and waterer on plastic dishes elevated above the shavings. It hasn't fixed the issue, but I think I'll try the other solution here and see how it works out.

 

[Cluckstar]

Raise it up to the height of their back. Keep it there (raising it) as they grow.

This is a good idea too.

 

[immortl]

I have a waterer similar to yours, but it has a plastic reservoir with a loop on it . I ran a stick across the top of my brooder and suspended the waterer from that, with with a string, the base at about chick back height. Took me about 3 weeks to figure that out and it made a tremendous difference. I was able to get away with changing water daily instead of every 15 minutes. Now they've been moved out to the coop (about 6 weeks old) and I do the same, suspending the waterer from a hook. (I subscribed to the idea of putting water and food in coop too, sun is up around 4:30am here in the summer and it's a few hours later before I'm up to let them out).