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I'm completely sold on the horizontal nipples.
It's the best system for freezing temps....there are some drips from when they drink...but they are the easiest to keep thawed.I'm not worried about summer/fall weather, but I'm thinking I'm going to need to bring what ever system inside their small coop in the winter. I'd like to keep the place as dry as possible.
Any change takes time, they'll learn faster if it's the only water source.The little rubber stoppers around the yellow flow piece is kinda tight. I have both in there right now.
As the hens peck & drink from the horizontal nipples, does it keep pretty dry around the waterer?
I'm not worried about summer/fall weather, but I'm thinking I'm going to need to bring what ever system inside their small coop in the winter. I'd like to keep the place as dry as possible.
I had nipples in my brooder for my first batch of chicks... will never do again! They make the fluff sooo wet and one of my chickens (chip,buff brahma) took "dust baths" in the wet fluff. I then had to get out the hair dryer and dry her off THEN I had to remove all the stuck fluff in her feathers, I had to clean the fluff there every day to avoid a driping chicken lol. Mine didn't leak btw. those chicks (12 weeks old) are now out in the coop and I have a bell waterer outside for them and just bought a little meatal waterer for inside the coop https://goo.gl/images/2nPEu6 . I have 24 chicks now and have small bell waters in the brooder, I have to clean those like 5 times a day but at least the chicks are dry lol. hope this helps! good luck on the coop, I think ill upload some photos of mine soon.Thanks for the input - I've been reading more and more each day about waterers and it's like noses, everyone has one and they're all different/similar in many ways.
I think I'm not sold on the nipples, but I would like to try the cups. I may even do both (a traditional waterer and the cups) and see what they all prefer.
It takes time....and no other source of water.My order of cups arrived this past weekend so I tried installing one on an old 64oz juice bottle. My 6 chicks took to it right away...until it was empty. Then they pecked at the trigger a little, but not enough for water to come out so they didn't really "figure it out". I read that you can try to coax them with either peanut butter (on the yellow trigger) or with a laser pointer. Well, my chicks (a little over 3 weeks old now) show no interest in peanut butter OR laser pointers. LOL I left it with them for a while, but then put back the other waterer, to which they were VERY happy to see.
So I guess my question is what are some ways people have had success with teaching their young'ins to use this? Are their beaks too small for them to get results?
(on a side note- while it didn't leak or drip for the 4-5 hours that I did leave them alone with the cup contraption, they did manage to get shavings and poop in it. #awesome.)