Feeders and Waterers for Silkies?

[Tanichca]

hmm i just use shallow bowls for the babies, hanging bowls for the show birds, and a hanging 2 gal waterer for the non-showers and everyone during the no-show season. No silkie problems yet...

 

[JulieNKC]

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when i brought my chickens inside a few nights over winter when it was really cold I gave them rabbit waterers to help cut down the mess. My BO's did just fine with them, although i had to refill them quite a bit so they aren't really practical for outside. I have a bench in my coop I keep buckets of water in for my chickens. When I first moved my silkies out with the big girls I kept a wire rabbit cage in the coop that had an open door big enough for the silkies to go in and out, but not big enough for the big ones so the little girls had somewhere to go hide if neccessary. I had a couple of hamster water bottles hung on it so they had something to drink from when they were in there. Worked great til it got cold, then they froze constantly so haven't used them since.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

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I use a small or medium bowl like Three Cedars Silkies uses (or a small rubber feed pan) resting inside a large rubber feed pan.
http://www.amazon.com/Fortex-Rubber...1L2Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299782040&sr=8-1

They kick the feed out of the smaller pan and the larger rubber pan catches most of it. They hop to stand inside the large pan (I shove the small bowl to one side for them) and I save big $ on feed this way.

 

[AlienChick]

I like these small chick feeders because you can just fill up your own mason jar and screw it on:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...mp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B002H19WUE


And when they get bigger, I have one of these larger feeders for the coop:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...mp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000HHLGP4

 

[averytds]

There are heated rabbit waterers, but I've never used one. The cheapy ones we use up into juvie age, but my adults just bite on the outside. Wish they would use them as you never know. We tried the tops with 2 liter bottles when we had young meaties, but they leaked or something because they would be empty within about 20 minutes.

You could place a brick or something the Silkies could use to raise their height to one nipple vs lowering the existing drinker. We do that when we've got chicks in the coop.


Oh, ETA on the mason jar ones. I was saving plastic mayonnaise jar lids to use on my canning jars for fridge storage. Work the same as the white ones Ball sells and hey free/recycled. It occurred to me the other day that if the lids fit my regular mouth jars, maybe the plastic jars would fit the mason jar feeders/waterers. We eat a lot of egg and chicken salad here, so go through our fair share of mayo. Haven't dug out any of the old mason jar feeders/waterers to check yet though.