Providing water in the duck pen

[chickens really]

What a controversial conversation again. Your only reading half of what I said..Mine do great. Yes then do need water to rinse out nares. Mine get fresh unfrozen water twice a day. Mine will go and free range for over an hour before they waddle back for a drink and go right back to drilling and eating for another hour. My point is they won't choke if they don't carry a bottle of water with them.

 

[Jpat]

But mine couldnt go an hour without water while eating pellets. Is what iam saying

 

[Miss Lydia]

Mine can barely go from feed bowl to bucket without water.

 

[chickens really]

But mine couldnt go an hour without water while eating pellets. Is what iam saying

Mine are doing great with my frozen water and watering twice a day. I love my Ducks and they are healthy. I'm not with them 24 hours a day although I know they eat without thawed water because the bowls are empty..

 

[Jpat]

Yours have better table manners than mine

My drake coughs and gags going for the water, Which is 2 feet from the food

 

[casportpony]

I don't keep the food bowls next a water source, but they do have water available 24/7. Regarding the choking, they can eat too much too fast and choke to death, but so can other poultry. This is something I have witnessed.

 

[chickens really]

I only replied to what I know and what works for me.

 

[Jpat]

I don't keep the food bowls next a water source, but they do have water available 24/7. Regarding the choking, they can eat to much too fast and choke to death, but so can other poultry. This is something I have witnessed.

Youve seen that? Crazy birds

 

[casportpony]

Youve seen that? Crazy birds

Sadly I lost a young Muscovy this way, and have seen other types of poultry come close. FWIW, each time it happens is happens with crumbles, never pellets or grains.

 

[Miss Lydia]

That’s the key knowing what works for us and our birds . Mine are obsessed with water in their buckets in their pool in mud puddles and I do believe my Runners would choke to death if they didn’t have water 24/7 they don’t do anything slowed down including eating.