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It's not generally recommended to give animals water from a water softener. It's not really great for humans to drink either fwiw. Very high in sodium.
I don't know about chickens specifically - but you might wanna look up (I'm sure the info is available SOMEwhere) what the maximum acceptible concentration of sodium is for drinking water for chickens (specifically), as they are small, rather sensitive to sodium overdose, and do drink a lot of water. Be good to at least know how close to the limit you are...
(And think about maybe not drinking it yourself, either, especially if anyone in the family is on a low sodium diet for hypertension or other reasons)
Not sayin' it's gonna kill you outright all the time, it's not, but it is generally accepted these days as not being the absolute brightest idea either. Some people have water softeners plumbed into just the hot water (tho that leaves toilets with hard-water deposits).
Just a thought,
Pat
Yeah, it's a really crap softener anyway. I don't even think it does much LOL.
We don't have particularly hard water anyway, so I don't know why we have the softener.
Also, just thought about it, went down into the crawlspace under the extension where the chicken water comes from, and realized once again it's a seperate pump system down there, therefore they don't get the treated water.
