please help me so confused

[fiddlebanshee]

I have a bit of the same problem with my galvanized one. I think the spring is too stiff to release from the opening when the outside wall is slid over the inside so it never really opens up. Maybe it's bent, i haven't checked it yet but will have to do before it starts freezing again.

I like to use the plastic ones in the summer with ACV, but in the winter I need to be able to set the waterer on a heated base so I use the galvanized ones for that.

 

[chynasparks]

Well, I just went back to a plastic one my hubby is going to check the galvanized one out before we do away with it. It just doesn't fill back up. The plastic one is the fill from the top kind. Filled it with ice, it's gonna be a hot one today. It's spilled over before I could get it closed. Instructions say "tight but bot too tight" now I gotta figure out what is "not too tight". But my 2 Orpingtons love it. The started digging and laying down in the ice cold sand and started to dust bathe in it.

 

[fiddlebanshee]

Put some olive or other vegetable oil on the o-ring that is in the lid or around the mouth. Then hand-tighten. That usually solves it for me.

 

[fiddlebanshee]

Quote: Now that I am reading this again, did you think of putting the little cover over the hole at the bottom, that screws on and is stored on the top when the waterer is in use? If not, it would spill over when the top is not on. This is probably not the reason but I thought I'd throw this out here just in case.

 

[chynasparks]

Yup, I put the cap on the drainage hole. I just didn't screw the top cap tight enough. Following the directions that say "but not too tight" I didn't tighten enough. I need to be smarter than the waterer to make it work, don't I.