Up your game and get some Chicken Nipples!

[Living_Legend]

My 10 chicks are 3.5 weeks old. I just replaced their bowl style waterer with a 5 gallon bucket with Horizontal Side Mount Chiken Nipples. I literally took away there normal one and placed this bucket down in the same spot. In less than 10 seconds after I stepped out of the brooder they started using it. No training no anything. Just immediately started using it.

Clean water for a week, don't work harder, work smarter.

 

[techbsmith]

The 5 Gal bucket and horizontal chicken nipples are one of the greatest combinations ever put together! I also go with the "easy off" lids, and I add 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar per gallon of water.

In my brooders tho...there's no room for the bucket After weeks of constantly cleaning, recleaning, and cleaning water containers some more...I started using the bottle water systems that are usually in rabbit cages. The little chicks will peck at the bearing and get the water just fine!

It is amazing how fast the little ones learn where water is and how to get it

 

[Living_Legend]

The 5 Gal bucket and horizontal chicken nipples are one of the greatest combinations ever put together! I also go with the "easy off" lids, and I add 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar per gallon of water.

In my brooders tho...there's no room for the bucket After weeks of constantly cleaning, recleaning, and cleaning water containers some more...I started using the bottle water systems that are usually in rabbit cages. The little chicks will peck at the bearing and get the water just fine!

It is amazing how fast the little ones learn where water is and how to get it

Mine doesnt have an easy off lid but I have a easy off plug. size of a hose to fit in. I also did 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar per gallon as well.

yea water was getting dirty every day. I just read reviews that people chickens didnt take to the nipples so i wanted to brooder test it before i moved them and the waterer into the coop. I want to say they people that say that their chickens didnt take to it are just lieing... just kidding but yea, maybe they didnt remove the other source of water. thats the only reason i can think of.

 

[Backyard Bruce]

Just when I opened this thread I received a text stating that my 12 horizontal poultry nipples will arrive today...I like easy also.

 

[Living_Legend]

I just picked up some cheap 8 x 10 pavers from Home Depot so I can lift this up some which I will also use in the run

 

[llombardo]

I got a 2.5 gallon heated nipple waterer. I will use it all year round--just plug it in in the winter. First I got to finish the enclosure and get these guys outside.

 

[Dragonflydore]

We don't have room for one in our brooder, do you think they would be able to learn it at 8-12 weeks when they go outside?

 

[X_and_Z]

We don't have room for one in our brooder, do you think they would be able to learn it at 8-12 weeks when they go outside?

If you have space for a traditional drinker you have space for a chick nipple waterer:
https://www.premier1supplies.com/p/...MIlfCdlL_i2gIVnoSzCh1FcQIaEAQYASABEgLwSvD_BwE

Or make your own with almost any bottle and a nipple:
https://www.cacklehatchery.com/bottle-cap-nipple-waterer.html
http://www.thegardencoop.com/blog/2013/03/30/nipple-waterer-for-chicks/

 

[LittleMissCountry]

We don't have room for one in our brooder, do you think they would be able to learn it at 8-12 weeks when they go outside?

I got a vertical nipple waterer when my chicks were 8 months old and they figured it out right away.

 

[Kirk-a-doodle-doo]

This looks so easy! Do you have any problems with leaking?

Did you make yours or purchase a complete system?