Pressure Regulator / Pressure Reducing Valve for nipple waterer

[Achelois]

Will do! Those float valves you linked to look good - I've bought some of those. Unfortunately I already have $20 worth of the vertical nipples. They seem good quality other than not being spring loaded, and I like that they can be pulled apart if they ever need cleaning (we have hard water around here). Guess I might just use them anyway...with a small float valve, which was my main problem! Thanks!

 

[Achelois]

One thing I am still wondering about is why my bottle is sucking inwards - do people typically have an air hole somewhere at the top with these (old school) waterers, or should enough air get in around the nipple to replace the water?

 

[pawtraitart]

One thing I am still wondering about is why my bottle is sucking inwards - do people typically have an air hole somewhere at the top with these (old school) waterers, or should enough air get in around the nipple to replace the water?

A nipple type waterer must have a small hole at the top of the bottle to prevent a vacuum. With a conventional gravity type drinker, you don't want a hole at the top because you NEED the vacuum.

 

[Achelois]

A nipple type waterer must have a small hole at the top of the bottle to prevent a vacuum. With a conventional gravity type drinker, you don't want a hole at the top because you NEED the vacuum.

Ah, thank you! Well, at least I know my chicks have learnt to drink from it.

 

[Runawaylobster]

I was looking for a pressure regulator and i found this thread.

I have nipple waterers, I uses hoses to run them to each pen and use a 2" diameter section of PVC with hose threads on the ends in the pen so i can move them around as i need them. They work well. I put one that has a faucet on the end and open it to allow the whole system to fill.

Then i mounted a 5 gallon bucket high on the wall and installed a toilet valve connected with an adapter to the faucet so that the bucket will auto fill. Again this works nicely.

but here is the problem. The toilet valves just do not last and i am sick and tired of coming home from work and finding the bucket pouring over the top because the valve is leaking.. I can't get them to last more than a few months, some even just 2 months...

SO.. I decided to be done with it and just get a pressure reducing valve and dump the whole auto filling bucket thing... BUT.. i am having trouble figuring out what is the right valve to get.. ?? what valves are you all using..

I read the thread but it had so many answers and opinons that i got lost at about page 3.

I have it running from the faucet right now, with the faucet barely cracked, but it is not satisfactory at all. The chickens are able to use it but it is too high of a pressure, and there are several leaks caused by over pressure in my connector hoses.. ...

i am kinda thinking i might just be buying stock in a toilet valve company?

 

[hemet dennis]

I was looking for a pressure regulator and i found this thread.

I have nipple waterers, I uses hoses to run them to each pen and use a 2" diameter section of PVC with hose threads on the ends in the pen so i can move them around as i need them. They work well. I put one that has a faucet on the end and open it to allow the whole system to fill.

Then i mounted a 5 gallon bucket high on the wall and installed a toilet valve connected with an adapter to the faucet so that the bucket will auto fill. Again this works nicely.

but here is the problem. The toilet valves just do not last and i am sick and tired of coming home from work and finding the bucket pouring over the top because the valve is leaking.. I can't get them to last more than a few months, some even just 2 months...

SO.. I decided to be done with it and just get a pressure reducing valve and dump the whole auto filling bucket thing... BUT.. i am having trouble figuring out what is the right valve to get.. ?? what valves are you all using..

I read the thread but it had so many answers and opinons that i got lost at about page 3.

I have it running from the faucet right now, with the faucet barely cracked, but it is not satisfactory at all. The chickens are able to use it but it is too high of a pressure, and there are several leaks caused by over pressure in my connector hoses..

...

i am kinda thinking i might just be buying stock in a toilet valve company?

Try a float valve like on swamp coolers.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/DIAL-1-4-in-Evaporative-Cooler-Standard-Float-Valve-4102/100073411

 

[Achelois]

****, I've just bought some cheap float valves intended for aquariums. I hope they last longer than a couple of months!

 

[Runawaylobster]

i hope so too, i was looking at those myself.. i might try these first..

 

[hemet dennis]

There are some higher priced ones that will last even longer.

 

[Runawaylobster]

I have decided to consolidate the system to just one bucket (currently i have two) and then maybe get a better valve. I will have to move one coop but i had planned to move it anyway pretty soon..