California - Northern

[Deerling]

That's awesome, I love it! Are the chicks from the store-eggs any good? Is it basically like getting hatchery chicks but only you're doing the hatching?

I love them

They are sweet, friendly, GREAT hatchers and should be amazing layers.

 

[Nikon]

I use a similar waterer, but mine is round and has a cone shaped top to prevent roosting or perching on it.

I love it! And the birds like it, too.

If you have ducks, and set it up either outside or in a coop with a dirt floor, put it on some sort of grate so there is less chance of them drilling in mud next to it..... Then billing mud into the waterer.

It hangs on the fence I believe. It has brackets on the back.

Is it metal? If you use raw apple cider vinegar in your water, that wouldn't be a good choice.

The bottom is gray plastic and only the "roof" is metal.

 

[Nikon]

chiqita
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I sense a note of sarcasm there? What is cl/ee ?

 

[Nikon]

I love them

They are sweet, friendly, GREAT hatchers and should be amazing layers.

AWE!! Yes, they are good lil' chickees!

 

[debs_flock]

Quote: Just know the fertility rate goes way down the older eggs get, just like any other fertilized egg. We nutcase hatchers dig around in the store egg cooler to get the freshest refrigerated eggs. Usually determined by the Julian date stamped on the cartons and "Best by" date sometimes stamped right on the egg itself.

I also bought some eggs at Noah's Ark (Linda and I live in the same area), I spent so much time digging through the cartons to swap out for the color shells I wanted, I thought the employees were getting suspicious of what I was doing in the fridge.

Does anyone use this waterer? They have them at the feed store for like $50 and I like it but wanted to research them before buying. When I tried to look it up I can't find anything on them! This is the only photo Google could come up with! I took a snapshot of the one's at the store to see if they had any branding on them and the only thing they say is "Auto Cage Fount" and down in little tiny print, "Available from C.G. Smith Dist" which didn't come up with any hits either.

This being the only matched photo I could find of it goes to a blog that doesn't have any info.

My only concern would be how easy it would be to clean it. Other than that, you can't beat a float valve and a hose!

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I don't know how they turned out. I sold them immediately on CL to the first person that responded. They wanted a white egg layer, the family matriarch would NOT eat nasty brown eggs.

 

[ronott1]

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Since I was arrested a while ago for

, I will virtually bless your incubator so that you will hatch a lot of pullets...

 

[chiqita]

chiqita

I sense a note of sarcasm there? What is cl/ee ?

Cream legbars. hatchery ee's. But they egg Is HUGE and they lay every day at over 2 years old. one has a puffy face, one does not. They made awesome oe's last year.

 

[Nikon]

NOT eat nasty brown eggs? Bah ha ha! She probably wouldn't like my green and blue eggs I will eventually be getting then either.

My family would say " this is the house where we try knew things".


They had another auto waterer that looked basically the same only it didn't have a lid or a blocked front like this one does. It was just open. Wouldn't they poop all up in it though? Or maybe the sides are so thin they would be uncomfy for their little toesies.

 

[ronott1]

chiqita
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I sense a note of sarcasm there? What is cl/ee ?

There is a long standing thing with Ameraucana folks and well most other Blue Egg layers. The Cream Legbar does not fall into either category--It was actually a Breed before either--still some want to call them EEs. Chiqita must have crossed a Cream Legbar with one of her Easter Eggers - CL/EE.

By the way that sounds like a beautiful cross!

Pictures please....

 

[debs_flock]

NOT eat nasty brown eggs? Bah ha ha! She probably wouldn't like my green and blue eggs I will eventually be getting then either.

My family would say " this is the house where we try knew things".


They had another auto waterer that looked basically the same only it didn't have a lid or a blocked front like this one does. It was just open. Wouldn't they poop all up in it though? Or maybe the sides are so thin they would be uncomfy for their little toesies.

If chickens can find an opening into something, yes, they will poop in it!

I'm getting ready to convert all my runs to chicken nipple waterers. Just haven't decided if I want to go with gravity fed holding tanks with float valves or a pressure reducer on a dedicated water line.