By request My Chick nipple water Walk-through (With pics)

[Xovan]

Here is a bigger one I just made with a 12.5 gal container and a pallet.

 

[debid]

Any idea how to keep these nipple waterers from freezing in the winter with temps at night around 15 degrees?

I use a five-gallon bucket in an unheated and uninsulated coop. In summer, I rotate a few plastic milk jugs of water through the freezer to act as big ice cubes and keep their water cool. In winter, I drop in one of these:

http://www.farmandfleet.com/product...sion-bucket-utility-de-icer.html#.UZuDSFMo4iE

No freezing at all last winter with nights in the teens. The heater sits at the bottom close to the metal levers in the nipples -- I didn't have any issues with the nipples freezing up either. The only problem with this deicer is the chew coil. You have to slide a rubber stopper along the cord to compress the coil a bit so it stays above the water line or it will rust promptly. I learned this from reading reviews, not from anything included with the product. Otherwise, great product.

 

[RoseMarie1]

Just ordered my drinking nipples off Ebay the other day, can't wait to try them out!

I ordered some off Ebay a few weeks ago and finally fixed me my two batches of chicks a couple of the bottle ones. The RIR's love the thing and don't know how some of them aren't floating away they're using it so much. Was having trouble with their wood chips being wet though from the water so I just put a pan under it to catch the water. I have to keep cleaning out the wood chips they tromp in the pan though. lol The black aust. and sex links aren't using theirs as much but they are younger chicks. But I do like this much better than those waterers!!