Coop chores are done. I put the new buckets in. They finally got them in at the feed store. I like the rubberized ones, not plastic. I was able to get some before, but they ran out of the larger ones, so I was doubling up on the smaller ones. It worked, except in the rooster pen. I have a rooster that likes to stand on the side of the bucket to drink. He'd sometimes dump the bucket over. I put a second one in as a back-up, but he'd dump that one too. Now, they have the large bucket in there, and he can't dump it, even if the perches on the rim. It doubles the amount of water too.
So, I put the new buckets in. The hens in the one coop ran over to it eagerly, and drank. The roosters, on the other hand, stared at theirs like they weren't really sure about it. They gave it stink eye. I knew they were thirsty, because they had tipped the other water bucket over, but they were leery of it. I decided to continue on, and if they wouldn't drink out of it by the time I finished up, I would put one of the little buckets back in, until they got used to the big one. Before I got my chores done, they were drinking from it just fine. Funny the different reactions between groups of chickens on things like that.