Quote: Mine lap up rain water puddles even with an open waterer available too...who knows why<shrug>
I know my 15 birds drink about a gallon of water a day, I have my waterers marked because of meds, but I also like to measure things out of curiosity..data freak.lol.
...and they drink less out of the waterer on rainy days.
Marking the HN bottles really helped me see that they were drinking not so much at first then caught on and the water levels dropped much more quickly.
The older chicks took about a week or so to really get the hang of it, the 3 day old got it within about 2 hours. I did spend alot of time 'showing' them all how it worked by using a stick to activate the release pin. Some of them bumped the end of the pin multiple times, others shoved the beak in to push the pin sideways.