NY chicken lover!!!!

[Pharkas]

I am loving the waterer set up too, have you experienced and leaking like that? I have some nipples I may have to get building

very cute chicks mine are a week old on Friday too

The vertical nipples always have a drop of water hanging from each nipple. The paper towel will get wet as the drops slowly fall and when the chicks drink. Since this brooder is cardboard I have a rubber shelf liner in that area. I have newspaper under the paper towel on top of the rubber liner. The bottom of the box stays nice and dry and I switch out the papertowel/newspaper as needed daily or every other day. It is very easy. Chickens always have clean water and no messy water to change. I have spring operated horizontal nipples in my adult chicken coop. They are completely drip free but require more pressure exerted by the chicken to overcome the spring pressure. I don't know if a chick could exert the needed pressure to use a drip free nipple.

 

[Pyxis]

We had a new arrival this morning, isn't she adorable

Congrats! I'm going to have to come visit, she is the cutest.

 

[Pharkas]

We had a new arrival this morning, isn't she adorable

Very cute! We have been considering adding goats to our farm.

 

[bakingintherain]

Congrats! I'm going to have to come visit, she is the cutest.

Very cute!  We have been considering adding goats to our farm.

We love ours after our very rocky start!

Quick update she is actually a he lol baby goats are very difficult to tell teheehee still beyond cute

 

[Pyxis]

Lol, he pulled a fast one! Little cutie. Will you be keeping him?

 

[rancher hicks]

I am loving that nipple waterer setup!! I may have to make a few!!

OMG. Me too. So much easier than having to drag water to the basement.

 

[rancher hicks]

Ok, pics of new chicks. EE roo over Australorp, EE, Brahma, Red Star, Amber link, & Tetra tint hens.

Below: 20 chicks in a box while brooder is being cleaned.

Below: EE roo over Dark Brahma hen =

Below: The brooder setup







Below: We're cold! Stop taking pictures and put the Brinsea brooder panel back down.

EE over EE chick posing in front of chicken nipples

How did you secure you pvc? How will you raise it up as they grow?

 

[bakingintherain]

Lol, he pulled a fast one! Little cutie. Will you be keeping him?

Still trying to figure that one out

 

[Beer can]

I'd like to try a nipple waterer, I have dumb chickens though, they might not figure it out. I hung a big head of cabbage in their coop, two weeks they never touched it. I even put scratch under it and ripped some leaves off which they did eat. I think they were scared of it so I took it down and they devoured it in a day and a half.

 

[akaruby]

Hi people
I had no idea there were so many chicken-lovers in New York!
I'm right in the Chemung/Waverly area, near Elmira.

Hello! I am in Elmira...so we are very close! I had no idea there were so many chicken-lovers in this area either!