California - Northern

[ChickNmamma]

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Now THAT is one funny looking bird! With Attitude too- what you laughin at?

 

[chickee]

Thank you ChickNmamma, great info! I really like the hose idea too. I guess I could try the nipples first, the little cup ones look like they could have issues with the plastic floats. I'm wondering how old the chickens would be to use them. I couldn't imagine babies getting the hang of it, but perhaps so. It's , like you said, more natural.
I will keep an eye out for that stockton show for sure!!

I have the auto waters that have the red bowl. When I worm my chickens I have to take the bowls off so they will only drink the water that has the Ivomec in it. I have to then cover the tip of the stem that feeds the water bowl because the chickens love to nibble and drink the water bead at the tip. Now I am thinking that I should change over to the nipple waterers because the chickens seem to enjoy that and it would be such a cleaner water source for them. So I would say go for the nipple waterers

 

[Happy Chooks]

Thanks Walt! Darnit on missing the NV show though!

 

[AlpineButterfly]

My girls have a nipple waterer, but I haven't convinced myself they will get enough water, so they still have an inverted jug waterer also, taking up space... I know at least some of them drink from the nipples, but I haven't been keeping track of who I see using them. I just worry they will get dehydrated! I don't know how a dehydrated chicken acts...

 

[Audio51]

I have the auto waters that have the red bowl. When I worm my chickens I have to take the bowls off so they will only drink the water that has the Ivomec in it. I have to then cover the tip of the stem that feeds the water bowl because the chickens love to nibble and drink the water bead at the tip. Now I am thinking that I should change over to the nipple waterers because the chickens seem to enjoy that and it would be such a cleaner water source for them. So I would say go for the nipple waterers

I used the chicken nipples when I first got set up last year. I tried them with a bucket at first and the chickens took to it very fast. It worked well but I was not loving having to carry the water bucket back and forth, especially with the nipples underneath. I had to set it on top of something that would not hit the valves and bend them. I switched them over to having a a bucket set up outside the pen that I just refill and attached the nipples to a 3/4" PVC pipe that ran inside the pen. I had 3 valves and all of them leaked a lot once I moved them to the PVC pipe. I went to the red bowl and it works very well. No leaking and it rarely gets cold enough to freeze here. I have seen the nipples that are already set into a "saddle" that just snaps on to the PVC and those might work better without leaking, but by then I had already gotten the bowl. I plan to hook the PVC line into a permanent water source in the next week or so.

 

[Audio51]

The show is in Anderson March 30. Susan Smallbrook [email protected] is the contact

Walt

Walt....is that confirmed? Do they know the Urbanchicken blog is giving the Red Bluff location?

 

[Nikon]

Here they are! Daija on the left and her daughter Mandy on the right. Both girls are about a month preggers.

 

[chrissyr]

Ferndale is a good show, but Stockton is the largest show in the west and the best place to buy birds. I go to all the California shows. NV show was last month and the Stockton show is always the last weekend in January.

Thank you fowlman . Stockton sounds like one I better not miss

I have the auto waters that have the red bowl. When I worm my chickens I have to take the bowls off so they will only drink the water that has the Ivomec in it. I have to then cover the tip of the stem that feeds the water bowl because the chickens love to nibble and drink the water bead at the tip. Now I am thinking that I should change over to the nipple waterers because the chickens seem to enjoy that and it would be such a cleaner water source for them. So I would say go for the nipple waterers

My girls have a nipple waterer, but I haven't convinced myself they will get enough water, so they still have an inverted jug waterer also, taking up space... I know at least some of them drink from the nipples, but I haven't been keeping track of who I see using them. I just worry they will get dehydrated! I don't know how a dehydrated chicken acts...

I used the chicken nipples when I first got set up last year. I tried them with a bucket at first and the chickens took to it very fast. It worked well but I was not loving having to carry the water bucket back and forth, especially with the nipples underneath. I had to set it on top of something that would not hit the valves and bend them. I switched them over to having a a bucket set up outside the pen that I just refill and attached the nipples to a 3/4" PVC pipe that ran inside the pen. I had 3 valves and all of them leaked a lot once I moved them to the PVC pipe. I went to the red bowl and it works very well. No leaking and it rarely gets cold enough to freeze here. I have seen the nipples that are already set into a "saddle" that just snaps on to the PVC and those might work better without leaking, but by then I had already gotten the bowl. I plan to hook the PVC line into a permanent water source in the next week or so.

Love all of the water ideas! I'm glad there is so much good feed back on the nipple waterers. I definitely wouldn't of tried them before. And Alpinebutterfly, thank you for the pics. I really like your set up. I'll show it to my project man over here.

 

[Audio51]

I have the auto waters that have the red bowl. When I worm my chickens I have to take the bowls off so they will only drink the water that has the Ivomec in it. I have to then cover the tip of the stem that feeds the water bowl because the chickens love to nibble and drink the water bead at the tip. Now I am thinking that I should change over to the nipple waterers because the chickens seem to enjoy that and it would be such a cleaner water source for them. So I would say go for the nipple waterers

Chickee....Now that I reread your post, I'm thinking maybe yours are different than mine.

I have the Little Giant Fount like this one:



And I'm thinking you may nean you have these:

 

[fowlman01]

Walt....is that confirmed?   Do they know the Urbanchicken blog is giving the Red Bluff location?

it says Anderson on the list I have but it could be Red Bluff. The contact info is available.