chicken watering valve

[my3jsons]

Has anyone evere used one of the watering valves from Stromberg chickens? I saw a waterer on ebay that appeared to be a valve in the bottom of a bucket. You hang it and I'm assuming they peck at it to get water. I found the valves at Strombergs, but wondered what you guys thought about them. I need a waterer inside and out. Would this work for both?

 

[j3707]

You might want to be more specific....there appear to be several watering setups at the Stromberg site.

 

[chickeydee]

No, but you can check out Farm-Teh .They have water nipples that you can hook up to pvc pipe and than to a 5 gallon bucket or a hose that works great!

 

[averytds]

Not 100% sure exactly what you are asking, but you can use nipples and drink cups with basically anything that will hold water that you either drill a hole and insert the cup/nipple into, or run a tube/pvc from.


See if this link helps. http://www.bellsouth.com.au/tech/cupdrinker.htm

I apparently didn't bookmark it and can't locate it at the moment, but I think maybe it was an Australian company that had a huge gravity feeder and separate waterer that looked like two huge sewer pipes/pvc mounted on a fence. One had a drink cup attached right at the bottom and one had a slotted trough.

Could be done with a bucket, stock tank or 55 gallon drum as well.

 

[Dogfish]

Odered 6 of the 360 degee nipples from FARM TEK. They arrive tomorrow!

 

[my3jsons]

The farm tec 360 degree nipples attached to a bucket are what I am wanting. Thanks all for your suggestions. Now how many chickens per nipple. I have 20 chickens, how many would I need?

 

[trilyn]

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Well, I've got 22 out in the coop right now, and all I have are 3 nipples in a 5 gallon bucket and they're still living! lol That setup works fine, alot of times you'll see 2 chickens pecking the same nipple. I do plan on putting another 5 gallon bucket with 3 more nipples out there for the summer though-don't want to take chances with the warmer weather.