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[roosterhavoc]

how many u got total around 40

your good. 41

 

[sdm111]

I couldn't imagine watering that many pens. I have a bunch of nipples but don't know how grown birds would adapt. Anybody have experience getting grown birds to use nipples?

 

[roosterhavoc]

That's why I use water cups. I fill 3 or 4 milk jugs with water. I carry one in each hand and do half then go back for the other two. It ain't that bad. What's a pain is the young birds with the big feeders and waterers and cleaning them all out all the time.
I'd be lying if I didn't admit my wife helps a lot.

 

[roosterhavoc]

I couldn't imagine watering that many pens. I have a bunch of nipples but don't know how grown birds would adapt. Anybody have experience getting grown birds to use nipples?

im not sure I only have two. Lol

 

[kingcocker]

I couldn't imagine watering that many pens. I have a bunch of nipples but don't know how grown birds would adapt. Anybody have experience getting grown birds to use nipples?

I just started using them a few months back and some are still not liking it hit they know have to get the water out. To start I put it over the water cup and put very little water in the cup. I'm sure that as thirst set in they worked it out. So now I don't have to water as often and am more aware of water consumption on hot days.

 

[kingcocker]

That's why I use water cups. I fill 3 or 4 milk jugs with water. I carry one in each hand and do half then go back for the other two. It ain't that bad. What's a pain is the young birds with the big feeders and waterers and cleaning them all out all the time.
I'd be lying if I didn't admit my wife helps a lot.

I have been toying with the idea of an auto watering system using a similar setup as hydro growing with the flexible irrigation tubing.

 

[kingcocker]

Your birds are always pristine

 

[centrarchid]

I couldn't imagine watering that many pens. I have a bunch of nipples but don't know how grown birds would adapt. Anybody have experience getting grown birds to use nipples?

I have limited experience. They learn it quickly. Not widely adapted because of winter conditions.

They come predisposed for going after such water sources. I have had some birds kept for the entire summer without access to surface water. They supplemented intake from forages by going after dew in the morning. A fair portion of their beak design seems to be for collecting that dew.

 

[centrarchid]

I may be wrong, but I thought eggs are laid semi-soft like the skull of a human baby and harden when exposed to air.  This makes it easier for the hen to lay and prevents it from cracking when she drops it (onto other eggs or nest)...

I have seen a hen lay an egg a few times and they appeared semi-soft, but it may have been an optical illusion from the wetness you described.

Now I have to look it up...

Catch an egg from a hens backside as she lays it. I recently done that in front of a group of people as I described how hen was displaying intent to lay an egg. Egg was passed around for crowd to handle and not appearance which changed in multiple ways.

 

[centrarchid]

Egg shape is not a reliable indicator of gender in chickens.