Nipple Waterers VS Pail of water.

[Beekissed]

My cat has a very expensive awesome fountain waterer - his favorite watering source - the bathtub after I get out of the shower.

Mine would wait until I flushed the commode and then dip his paw in and drink the water off his paw. He would actually sit and wait for me to get done being on the commode...I couldn't go to the bathroom without the cat walking in and waiting patiently....

 

[KenOmatic]

I am also using well water. Its good sweet water and I let it run until its cold then fill up the water keg. The keg is an Igloo cooler so the water stays cool all day (its getting in the 80s here in Houston already).
The system is about three weeks old and I did use PVC pipe and PVC glue but it is the same thing I would have used if I added on to my house water system. I have a drain on the far end and I have cleaned the cooler twice and flushed the pipes.
The whole system is in the shade so I don't think its getting too warm. This summer I plan on adding ice if necessary. I did go taste a sample (and spit it out like in wine tasting) and it tasted like water straight out of the well.
I do believe they are just "discriminant puddle birds" and drinking out of a bucket is more natural. What ever makes em happy. I'll still leave the bucket outside of the pen for their afternoon play time.

 

[KenOmatic]

Since we are on the crazy pet topic, I have a little dog about 6 or 8 months old that LOVES chicken poop. I can't let her come around the pen because she goes crazy over it. She has had two seizures and both have been after playing around the coops. I've heard that giving pineapple to the chickens will stop it but I don't think I can afford that for ever. Hopefully she will grow out of it.

 

[Beekissed]

My dogs LOVE chicken poop...and I don't discourage it for one moment. It's a source of supplemental protein for them and it keeps the yard clean, doesn't hurt the dog at all. And the chickens return the favor by picking through and dispersing the dog's poop. It's a lovely system!

 

[Moonkit]

My dogs LOVE chicken poop...and I don't discourage it for one moment. It's a source of supplemental protein for them and it keeps the yard clean, doesn't hurt the dog at all. And the chickens return the favor by picking through and dispersing the dog's poop. It's a lovely system!

Are you sure about this? My father keeps telling me to get after our border collie for doing this because the dogs on the farm he grew up on would eventually start having seizures and die from eating chicken poop. She's hard to discourage though and has taken to being very sneaky to get the chicken poop.

 

[ChickenJerk]

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I'm sure a little UP/ACV with "mother", of course, would have taken care of this.

 

[Beekissed]

Are you sure about this? My father keeps telling me to get after our border collie for doing this because the dogs on the farm he grew up on would eventually start having seizures and die from eating chicken poop. She's hard to discourage though and has taken to being very sneaky to get the chicken poop.

Don't know about your dogs or your dad's....mine have eaten it for years and never had a moments problem. Actually, I've never had to vet any of my dogs except one that got plugged up with eating old deer bones that she was too old and toothless to eat. Many people on here have dogs that consume chicken poop without resulting in health issues.

Maybe it's in what you feed your chickens? Or maybe some bacteria in their feces that gave these dogs meningitis?

 

[Beekissed]

I'm sure a little UP/ACV with "mother", of course, would have taken care of this.

You could be right....

Too bad it doesn't work on skepticism.

 

[ChickenJerk]

Yeah- too bad.

"If fairy tales could come true . . ."

Well the stuff is great in salad dressing, I will give it that. But in poultry propagation - a homeopathic myth.

And in response to the ill will that is about to be expressed I say; show me the science.

 

[PDXcluck]

show me the science.

Problem is, if it does indeed do even half of what is claimed it can, you will never see the science. FAR too much money to be had off the pills and powders and treatments that it would replace if, as I said, it could do even half of what is claimed. Same thing with all natural and homeopathic remedies, no ability to patent = no money = no results.

I would suggest not trusting the science anyways. Take Vioxx for example, FDA says it's safe based upon heaps of 'science', manufacturer says it's safe based on same 'science', then someone else says, "HEY WAIT! It's actually killing people." And DDT, and 2,4-D and PBDE's (flame retardants, in most everything, cause all sorts of health problems), and the list goes on and on and on...

To each their own I suppose.