Spring 2017 first timers post!

[Chickywolf]

Ok, here is a couple of pictures of one of our nipple water containers. I bought the bottle at Wal Mart and a 4 pack of nipples at our local feed store. Easy to follow directions and drill a couple of holes and install the nipples, added a little silicone around the nipples just in case. A piece of wire around neck to hang it with. We put it in the brooder box along with a "normal" water container and when we moved the chicks to the coop we moved both out there as well. We replaved the nipple water jug with a 5 gal bucket with nipples that we bought at the feed store. We put the plastiv jug out in the run so the kids have water out there as well.

Note, we have hung a strawberry and a brussel sprout on strings from one of their outside perches but they have showed zero interest in them??

Hope this helps. BB

I really like that. Didn't realize it was so easy to do. I'm definitely going to do this now. Maybe with a large bucket so I won't have to fill it so often. Thanks for the pics.
I hung an apple in my older girls run a week ago and they haven't touched it. My last batch of chickens loved stuff like this but these girls don't seem impressed. Maybe they're getting too old. I have hopes for the babies. Hung a couple big buttons in their pen and they've been having a ball with them.

 

[Chickywolf]

Made my recycled nipple waterers tonight. The smaller one is for the brooder and the larger for the coop/run.



22 days and counting!

Just saw this pic of yours after I asked for pics of nipple waterers. Your bucket idea is what I want. thank you also for the pics. Everybody here is so helpful. I love this site!

 

[Little Coop on Salt Creek]

I would love to see a pic of these water bottles. What a great idea! I've been thinking of going to a nipple watering system for all my chickens but haven't decided if I'm going to try making them myself or buy already made ones.

That makes sense that they would learn from the first ones to catch on. Just like people. Sorta like what we're doing here, lol!

I will try to get some pics of our "system" up in the next few days. I don't think I have any close ups of the big girl waterer in/out system. Here is a picture of the brooder waterer, I also use them in the coop placed low enough for the littles to use before they can reach the other one.

 

[elizabethu42]

Funny, but not so funny at the time about those little fuzz butts:  Day one of them home, one of the Silkies was pulling all 3 of the Black Australorps around then brooder by their toes!  What!!!

A little Nutridrench and a good nights sleep and the little Australorps were able to hold their own.  I also had to "mama hen peck" at her back about a zillion times, but she finally got the message.  Next day... all is calm, no toe eating.  Day 3... I go into the coop and hear loud peeping that won't stop, I look in and that silly girl had her own foot in her mouth and screaming about it! 

All seems good now though, all toes are intact and she doesn't seem to have any other weird obsessions. 

 

[maribameche]

I think it depends what you mean by 'hold'... none of my 5 week BA like it when I wrap my hands around them and pick them up, but two of them are pretty good with sitting on my hand/lap and taking mealworms from my hand, and the other one, who doesn't like to sit on me, will still fly out of the brooder at me for treats when I open the door!  I think they just find it scary when their movements are restricted, which makes sense, although I still do it just so they get used to being 'inspected' & handled... I don't hold them long, and they don't have to LIKE it, just tolerate it.

But it took a little bit of time, and plenty of dried mealworms, to get them to this point!

I hold them however they're most comfortable, one of my old English bantams goes to sleep when I hold her in my hands link an egg but gets tired of that after a while so I'll let her perch on my fingers or on one hand, my other OE doesn't like me to hold her AT ALL but will let my fiancé hold her and my 2 Rhode Island reds like to perch on my fingers best but all of them are still terrified except for one. She tolerates it but still would rather be in the brooder. They all run to the other end if they see me what kind of treats can I give them? Also I haven't started them on grit or vitamins yet, when should they have those? The lady at the best store said just I've them the food I bought until they're 18 weeks

 

[MaggieHoff]

These are my about 2 week old black sex link chicks, they are my first chickens

 

[maribameche]

I guess this is how she wants to be held tonight lol the only one that actually isn't scared of me!

 

[kimberlychicks]

that lot eggs maby a country store will take some of thows eggs off your hands

 

[kimberlychicks]

I got one 4 week old buff that like doing that too

 

[kimberlychicks]

i have had that kind befor but got buff black australorp this time