Hi from Arizona

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azcookchicks

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Apr 6, 2013
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I am new this year to chickens. I was over come by desire in January to get some chickens. I read everything I could and felt confident that I could do this. Now I am 12 weeks into raising my mixed group of chicken (I was calling them my girls but one is a rooster). I have completed their hen house and run, I have a tube feeding system and have just installed a nipple feeding system. Snag.... I can not get them to drink from the nipples and it is getting hot. The other problem that is developing is that one of the chickens poop looks just like it is completely undigested. The other chickens follow her around and eat her poop! This can not be healthy and I witnessed them eating other poop as well now. They have plenty to eat and clean water 3 times a day. I also feed thm plenty of greens and fruit and veggie scrapes which they love. What's up with eating poop? Any suggestions from you old hands at this?
 
Howdy from Kansas, azchooks, and
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! Great to have you aboard. About the watering - are you giving them water in a dish as well? If so they may not use the nipple waterer. If you have both you might remove the one and leave the nipple one and see if they go for it. If they simply aren't using the nipple one I have no clue. You might post in the link below:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/12/feeding-watering-your-flock

As for the runny runny poop/poop eating, try posting in this link. Good luck to you!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/10/emergencies-diseases-injuries-and-cures
 
Hello and welcome from Ohio....so glad you joined BYC

Hope you get things worked out with your flock. My chickens wont drink from nipples either but they love to drink the little droplets off the shrubbery in the early morning
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Thanks for the help friends. It is getting pretty warm here already and I am afraid they may get dehydrated. I have the whole day off Monday so I think I will make it my mission to get them trained. I'll take the watering dish away and give them no alternative. It's nice to know there are others out there that have chickens and I'm not a goof ball.
 

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