North Carolina

[Angierob]

You're going to have to separate the Roos for a while. Some of them choose a favorite hen and just "attack" them. I don't let roosters get to any of my pullets until they start laying eggs and have a good body size.

She may have gotten a sprained leg while getting mounted. They can also get crushed while mating.

sounds like I need to build a separate coop and run----uuggghhhhh

 

[FVRM]

sounds like I need to build a separate coop and run----uuggghhhhh

I used chicken wire to make a separate pen for them within the run. Since it's summer all they need is some shade and a roost in there.

 

[jcbfarms]

NC, just south of the Danville va line. Caswell county

 

[ramirezframing]

NC, just south of the Danville va line. Caswell county

new flocker

 

[starlingdaly]

Anyone using poultry nipples???

I want to build a system out of pvc to replace the constant scrubbing and refilling of all these waterers you buy at the store.
I've been looking online and there are a lot of people complaining about ones not working or leaking.

Did anyone have any issues converting your flock?

Is there a brand or type you'd recommend?

THANKS!

I use them! 2 nipples in a 5 gallon bucket, one bucket keeps 10 chickens watered for 5-7 days. I do provide water in an open source bowl for my turkey in the really hot water. It takes her a lot longer to drink because she can only get so much from the chicken sized nipples. Didn't have any issue at all converting the flock. I demonstrated with my finger and when they saw it drip they caught on. Anyone who didn't see me, saw other chickens doing it and learned fast.
The only leaking issue I ever had was accidentally drilling at a slight angle. I put silicone around the opening after I screwed the nipple in and let it dry and that fixed the problem.
I have used the Avian AquaMiser type and some from eBay (the kind you can take apart). Both have worked excellently.

My first chickens ever I trained to drink from a hamster bottle as chicks so watering the flock when they got older only made sense this way after I discovered it was a real thing.

 

[FVRM]

Dutchbunny did you ever figure out what the black and white spotted chick with the slate legs was? I'm thinking hamburg.

 

[dutchbunny83]

I use them! 2 nipples in a 5 gallon bucket, one bucket keeps 10 chickens watered for 5-7 days. I do provide water in an open source bowl for my turkey in the really hot water. It takes her a lot longer to drink because she can only get so much from the chicken sized nipples. Didn't have any issue at all converting the flock. I demonstrated with my finger and when they saw it drip they caught on. Anyone who didn't see me, saw other chickens doing it and learned fast.
The only leaking issue I ever had was accidentally drilling at a slight angle. I put silicone around the opening after I screwed the nipple in and let it dry and that fixed the problem.
I have used the Avian AquaMiser type and some from eBay (the kind you can take apart). Both have worked excellently.

My first chickens ever I trained to drink from a hamster bottle as chicks so watering the flock when they got older only made sense this way after I discovered it was a real thing.

Thanks!!!

Dutchbunny did you ever figure out what the black and white spotted chick with the slate legs was? I'm thinking hamburg.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's a Silver Spangled Hamburg. The comb is throwing me off because it's totally flat, but I guess it will stick up the top as it grows? I have a hunch it's going to be a male, we will see.
The cockerel I was stuck on is a Delaware roo.

The other ones I still don't know. The Easter Egger pattern with the flat comb. I had thought they'd be partridge Wyandottes, but now that they're feathering out they don't have the stenciling pattern. But the legs are yellow and all the faces are clean so they're not EE (there are also EE in there, but you can clearly see the difference). So that's the last one I'm stuck on.

Looks like my Orpingtons I hatched from Greg Mignot are going to be roo's too, but I'm not giving up hope on them just yet...

 

[DonkeyJac]

Bad storm here in Greensboro NC...Hail...Wind...Rain

 

[Meinertzhagens]

Anyone using poultry nipples???

I want to build a system out of pvc to replace the constant scrubbing and refilling of all these waterers you buy at the store.
I've been looking online and there are a lot of people complaining about ones not working or leaking.

Did anyone have any issues converting your flock?

Is there a brand or type you'd recommend?

THANKS!

I just started using some. I don't know what kind they are though, they were in a box at the local feed store. My month old chicks are still in their kiddie pool brooder and were going through two hamster waterers too quickly (I filled 2 two times a day and left them a cup of water out and that wasn't enough). I used a gallon sized juice jug and drilled three nipples in it. They still have half a gallon although they don't seem to get as much water from the nipples as they did the hamster things and one stopped working already. The jury is still out on them for me. I really wanted to use them though!

 

[Meinertzhagens]

Bad storm here in Greensboro NC...Hail...Wind...Rain

I sure hope it heads north, we are super dry!