? for serama or banty owners

[carriehelene]

I have some serama and banty eggs in the bator. What do you all do about waterers for the babies? Did you use a regular waterer or come up with something else? It just seems to me that the banties I saw in the store in the spring were just sooo tiny, I don't know how they could drink out of a regular waterer. And the Serama's, well they aren't gonna be much bigger than a quarter (I don't think). Any advice?

 

[briana1975]

I used a regular chick waterer. I just had stones in it so nobody fell in and drowned.

 

[Camelot Farms]

Yep, me too....waterer with stones or marbles

 

[carriehelene]

Whew, thank you both. I was so worried they would be too small for a regular. I always put marbles in the waterers for the chicks, but I've never done banty babies before, wasn't sure they'd be able to reach

 

[shelleyd2008]

I also use a regular waterer, but the first few days I seem to have a shallow bowl in the brooder instead. I'm a bit short on waterers, so it seems to work out that way often.

 

[~*Sweet Cheeks*~]

Regular 1 qrt water - plastic with the red base. I didn't bother with rocks or marbles because it's shallow and only 1" wide where the top attaches. Not enough room for them to fall in.

I have three banties that did just as well as the ten full sized chicks.

Enjoy your little ones.

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

You can get the little tiny base that goes on the qt size bottle. It's for the chicks and that way you don't have to put anything in it. I used it for a week and then switched over to a regular base. Also with the Serama chicks you may have to crunch up the crumbles even a little more. Mine had such a hard time eating until I crunched it up for them. You really only have to do that for about a week or two. Good luck

 

[Akane]

Put marbles in a regular waterer, use a hamster water bottle (they actually pick these up faster than they do dishes of water), or cut the bottom off something like a plastic cup (not styrofoam, chickens love to eat styrofoam). The last one is what I do for quail especially buttons and have done it when I just had a few bantams. Whenever I can these days I use water bottles for my chickens. From hamster bottles for little ones up to the largest rabbit bottles, which they also use for puppies sometimes, for penned up breeding trios.