Uggh.. Water-er is Dirty All the Time! Ideas?

[Patricia Jane]

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I was having the same problem. I bought a sheppards hook for haning plants and use that. It works great.

 

[kuntrygirl]

I'm afraid of the nipples. In my mind, I think they won't get enough water and die.

I use dishpans. However, I suffer from OCD which would explain my paranoia.

 

[tdgill]

lol you'd have to have LOTS of nipples for 165 chickens! That would be my only concern. Enough nipples to go around. Wonder what the nipples/chicken ratio is.

 

[MR.PEEPS]

you need 1 Nipple for every 2 or 3 chickens so you got 165 you will need 83 nipples hope that helps.

 

[tdgill]

when I used to hang a waterer in the coop, I noticed that shavings and dirt would get knocked into the water when the chooks hopped and flew down from their roosts. I had raised it up high enough that I figured they wouldn't scratch it in and couldn't figure out why it was still getting so much stuff in it. lol. I ended up hangin it from the ceiling and above roost level. Presto! stayed very clean! Also seemed to stay thawed out better in the winter. I had it between 2 long roosts so there was plenty of access space on all sides of waterer in case someone was hogging a roost spot or two - chooks could hop over to other roost and still get to waterer.