Consolidated Kansas

[Mandilynn]

Thank you much Hawkeye, I may need to experiment and see if I can rig some kind of auto watering system up... should be interesting. We do have a motion flood light, and I don't really feel like anyone is out to get my chicks, that is just kind of how my husband thinks. Too many years as a correction's officer maybe? I tend to just go with it. So we spent more on locks and latches than we did actual chickens, at least he cares! lol.

 

[chicken danz]

I had a few of those drawers my kids destroyed. Maybe Jon can fix it if he has a pneumatic stapler.

 

[Hawkeye95]

I had a few of those drawers my kids destroyed. Maybe Jon can fix it if he has a pneumatic stapler.

It won't fix. It ripped the wood apart. The front is in tact, but the drawer itself had the wood torn into pieces. Nothing to screw it back on with. I'm still pretty angry. But I've looked at it again and maybe I can just buy the drawer part and put my front on it.

 

[Trish44]

Hawkeye, sorry to hear about your drawer, kids can be destructive sometimes. My son was one of them when he was little. He took his big Tonka truck & make a big hole in his bedroom wall. I had to patch that later on. He broke a window in there that had to have glass replaced, there was just a lot of things he did over the years. One time he set the hay on fire that was leaning up against the barn with chickens inside. A neighbor who turned out to be my guardian angel saw the fire on his way past to go home & stopped to help me drag hay away from the barn & put it out. Another time the same man saw our yard on fire late at night coming from hay the neighbor had where he burned off his field & came to our rescue yet again. Anyway, my son had a pretty bad temper, so when he was angry he tore up things. I had to shut him in his room when he got to having a tantrum & make him stay in there until he was done. He still has a temper even now as an adult, but I think he has learned somewhat how to control it to more of a degree. I hope you can find a new drawer front & are able to fix it.

 

[checoukan]

Hey everybody~~Well it just started raining here about 10 minutes ago. Wow, sounded like someone was spraying the front window with a water hose. I hope they are wrong about us getting 8 inches!!! Flood city if it does.

Sorry I don't post much, but I want to contribute to auto waterers.
I ordered mine thru GQF Manufacturing in Georgia. Beside incubators and such they handle alot of other supplies for chickens. My self I use the orange cups. Have for years. I like them the best. The chickens learn to use them fast, and I never worry about water. I also ordered the 5 gallon bucket from them and the tubing, clamps, and t-s and things like that to make my system work. Since all my bantams are on these cups, I never worry about water on hot days. I fill the 5 gallon bucket and they have water. I do make sure every day that the little trigger works and fill s the cup when I put my finger on it. If it does not fill like I think it should, then i remove the cup and work the trigger until the water flow, or I undo the tubing and flush it out. I really like them. I use them all wither long, and when they freeze I just put a tuna can in and fill it with water. When it warms back up, I take the can out, and they are back on the cups.

Using the buckets make medication easy to add to the water when needed. Each bucket has a lid so the water stays clean, with no nastys. You can also use the cups screwed into PVC pipe. You can use a 55 gallon barrel that way, or what ever size barrel you choose.. It is still low presure watering. Water stays nice and clean. And you still just fill your barrel with a hose.

 

[Deerfield Acres]

Hawkeye, sorry about your drawer. Our former neighbor in town had four of them destroyed by his two kids. Yikes! They didn't seem very bothered by it, though. I would be seeing red! Kids do the oddest things. My husband fixed them with not too much trouble since the fronts were okay.

One evening, our two younger boys were supposed to be in bed. I was close by on the computer and could hear them monkeying around in there but just let them go figuring they would wind down. Next thing I heard was a yell from the youngest one that didn't sound like pain, more like extreme irritation. I dashed to the rescue to find my son swinging by his underwear under the top bunk. His tidy whiteys had gotten hooked by the ladder, he tripped and was held only by one side of his unders. He truly looked like a monkey swinging by its tail. I couldn't believe my eyes!

The older boy was lying on the lower bunk frozen with eyes wide open.

I quickly got the swinger down and asked him if he was okay (that was some major wedgie action). He told me in a very disgusted voice that he was fine but his brother hadn't helped him one bit! That's when it hit me how funny the whole thing was. I said "How could he, he's in shock"! Then we all burst out laughing and Dad had to come in and see what he was missing out on. I had a hard time filling him in I was laughing so hard. This particular son tends to get into some unusual scrapes. Never a dull moment with kids around.

checoukan, do you have problems with leakage at all with the automatic waterers?

Danz, thoughts and prayers with you.

 

[Ivywoods]

OMG Karen- That is almost EXACTLY what happened to my youngest son. He and my step son were monkeying around on the bunk bed. T. somehow caught his underwear on the post and was dangling from the top bunk held up by one leg of his underwear. My step son came running up to get us... not to help but to "SEE THIS!" He was laughing hysterically. We went down and T. was hanging there, not really in pain but pretty concerned about how he was going to get out of his predicament. He called it his "mega wedgie."

 

[checoukan]

Hawkeye, sorry about your drawer. Our former neighbor in town had four of them destroyed by his two kids. Yikes! They didn't seem very bothered by it, though. I would be seeing red! Kids do the oddest things. My husband fixed them with not too much trouble since the fronts were okay.

One evening, our two younger boys were supposed to be in bed. I was close by on the computer and could hear them monkeying around in there but just let them go figuring they would wind down. Next thing I heard was a yell from the youngest one that didn't sound like pain, more like extreme irritation. I dashed to the rescue to find my son swinging by his underwear under the top bunk. His tidy whiteys had gotten hooked by the ladder, he tripped and was held only by one side of his unders. He truly looked like a monkey swinging by its tail. I couldn't believe my eyes!

The older boy was lying on the lower bunk frozen with eyes wide open.

I quickly got the swinger down and asked him if he was okay (that was some major wedgie action). He told me in a very disgusted voice that he was fine but his brother hadn't helped him one bit! That's when it hit me how funny the whole thing was. I said "How could he, he's in shock"! Then we all burst out laughing and Dad had to come in and see what he was missing out on. I had a hard time filling him in I was laughing so hard. This particular son tends to get into some unusual scrapes. Never a dull moment with kids around.

checoukan, do you have problems with leakage at all with the automatic waterers?

Danz, thoughts and prayers with you.

KarenS The only trouble I ever had was with one drinker. Some how a piece of something got down the line, and went into that one drinker, and it held the gizmo thing up just a little bit. When I seen it was leaking, I removed the cup and messed with the trigger. Still leaked. So I took it apart, and flushed the tubing. No more trouble ever. These drinker cups are the most sanitary way to water your birds. If they do get some dirt, just use your finger, or a cloth and wipe them out.

 

[tntblake]

OMG Karen- That is almost EXACTLY what happened to my youngest son. He and my step son were monkeying around on the bunk bed. T. somehow caught his underwear on the post and was dangling from the top bunk held up by one leg of his underwear. My step son came running up to get us... not to help but to "SEE THIS!" He was laughing hysterically. We went down and T. was hanging there, not really in pain but pretty concerned about how he was going to get out of his predicament. He called it his "mega wedgie."

Almost the same thing happened to my son! He was about 2 standing on a kitchen chair "helping" daddy do the dishes. Somehow he slipped of the chair head first. On the way down his little undies caught on the handle of the lower cabinet. He was upside down with his legs in the air screaming. Funniest thing I ever saw! It still makes me laugh when I think about it. He was/is such a serious little guy that he didn't/doesn't think it was funny AT ALL. I took a picture of him and daddy from behind just minutes before it happened because they looked so cute. I will have to look for the pic so I can post it.

 

[sapphireblu76]

Here are my duckies. What do you think? Pekins? I got them at TSC and they were all the same.