Thank you Chooks man! Glad you are moving birds to the knew property. I am so excited for you! Blessings my friend! I need to make time to go out and observe my Marans more often. My back and hip is holding me back. I can't sit down if I do I can't get up. I get sharp pain with ever step. I do better if I don't bend over or sit down. I am flooded with work but I have to keep going. I can't get as much done as I use to I just keep putting along. I am making new watering buckets with lids for all the pens with cups on them. That keeps the water cleaner. I have had this system in the big pen for a couple weeks now. It's working good! My chicks should start hatching in about 9 days.
I use the same watering cups and they work really well. I found that if I remove the plastic insert from the cup it fills deeper, with more water. My 10 chickens are fine with a single watering cup in their run.
Thank you! I seen they had good reviews but you never really know.
The removable cups are supposed to be so you can clean them easier, I think. But my waterers are only 2 gallons, so I just carry them to the hose and blast the cup and the inside of the bucket clean.
I was only planning on using these in the summer time when I have the most work to do. I have the rubber buckets for winter. Heated buckets sound like the way to go but I would need 4 or 5 of them. I have some nipples already.
Now You have me looking! Lol Which buckets where you looking at?
What do you mean? Here's the kind of bucket I use. The insert is kind of hard ro remove. It took me a while to realize that by leaving it out the cup would fill with more water. Easier for the chickens to get a drink, I think.
