Should chicken water ever smell like sewage

[jgarner1327]

I have clean water for them always. 5 gallon bucket with horizontal nipples. I just fill as needed. Once in a while I rinse out but it’s always clean inside View attachment 2876244View attachment 2876241

 

[catballou]

Much better than smelly dirty water. Disease thrives in gross water.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Sewage smelling water is stagnant water once mine get like that its time to scrub

 

[HollowOfWisps]

Has the water been tested recently? Sometimes contaminants are in the water and make it smell/look off. We have 4 filters and a reverse osmosis system for drinking water in our house and we also had to put filters out in the barn because the hard water had so much sediment. Even with the filters our water turns a slight orange tinge just sitting out for a couple of hours. My aunt's well will even get a sulfur smell to it when it needs shocked again.

 

[catballou]

Has the water been tested recently? Sometimes contaminants are in the water and make it smell/look off. We have 4 filters and a reverse osmosis system for drinking water in our house and we also had to put filters out in the barn because the hard water had so much sediment. Even with the filters our water turns a slight orange tinge just sitting out for a couple of hours. My aunt's well will even get a sulfur smell to is when it needs shocked again.

How does she shock her water? My water has really been stinky like sulphur since I had a new well pump put in last winter.

 

[catballou]

Sewage smelling water is stagnant water once mine get like that its time to scrub

It should never get that bad, but in one day it gets pretty gross. I wipe out the bowl with a paper towel at least once a day and fill er up again.

 

[HollowOfWisps]

How does she shock her water? My water has really been stinky like sulphur since I had a new well pump put in last winter.

Is disinfecting your well which should be on a regular schedule to avoid contamination.
Here's a better in-depth overview.

https://extension.uga.edu/publicati...infecting Your Well Water: Shock Chlorination

 

[catballou]

Is disinfecting your well which should be on a regular schedule to avoid contamination.
Here's a better in-depth overview.

https://extension.uga.edu/publications/detail.html?number=C858-4&title=Disinfecting Your Well Water: Shock Chlorination

Oh my goodness!
Thanks for the information.
I've never heard of that in all of my 65 years of well water!
I'll definitely look into it!

 

[SHP]

Thank you @All4Eggz for clarifying. I'm new to this but I also tend to geek out and my OCD kicks in so when I clean those waterers I CLEAN them. Even if there are 5 of them and each one takes me 15'. So be it! I think they need (and deserve) clean water. Plus I am also suspicious that some of the diseases we're dealing with have to do with dirty water. Maybe not. There are other dirty things they could be getting diseases from. Flies. Mosquitoes. Maggots. Wet chicken run. Rainy humid weather. :/

Have you considered hanging the waterers above butt level? We hung ours in the summer and I loved it! Right away made a set up for the feeder and chick feeders/waterers to hang too! They stay MUCH cleaner!! They'll try getting on them at first, but quickly learn it isn't much fun anymore!

 

[BantammChick]

Thank you @All4Eggz for clarifying. I'm new to this but I also tend to geek out and my OCD kicks in so when I clean those waterers I CLEAN them. Even if there are 5 of them and each one takes me 15'. So be it! I think they need (and deserve) clean water. Plus I am also suspicious that some of the diseases we're dealing with have to do with dirty water. Maybe not. There are other dirty things they could be getting diseases from. Flies. Mosquitoes. Maggots. Wet chicken run. Rainy humid weather. :/

could u set the waterer on top of something to get it off the ground, so they can't kick dirt into it?