WARNING! do not leave 1 day old chicks by water. My babies drowned!

[stormylady]

Im so sorry!

I haven't had any drown but it is always a constant fear that i have when they are so young.

 

[m2wandc]

is there any reason why you couldn't leave the marbles or rocks in the waterer for a much longer time frame?

 

[fhdogs]

I use a 1qt water fountain like m2wandc with marbles in mine. I keep them just loose enough so the ducklings can make enough room to fit in.

I hardly think any of my chick could drown however since the ducklings are always moving around the water.

Then just to be safe, I keep an eye on everyone with my "brooder cam"

 

[Mikhail]

You can also use shallow lids and frisbees (A few years ago at earth day we got tiny little frisbees which i now use for water dishes for my buttons. works great)

 

[Chick_a_dee]

i used a quail waterer for a couple weeks cause the dish was too small for their heads to fit and get drowned but it was big enough for the beak.

 

[chickenhick]

I use the kind that requires an old fashioned Mason jar. YOu just buy the metal "trough" and it screws onto the jar. I'ts smallk, so if you have many chicks it probably wouldn't work, but for a small number, it works great. The trough is only about four or five inches in diameter and I put marbles in it until they are about a week old. So sorry about your babies.

 

[chickenhick]

Isn't using an open container, like a Frisbee or jar lid dangerous? Can they fall into it?

 

[Chick_a_dee]

Our TSC's are useless

 

[m2wandc]

on the brooder cam

that is sooooo me...we have video cameras on our children's beds so I can watch them sleep!

Pretty sure my hubby would crack up if I added a cam to the chicks! Great idea...I might have to get on that before he gets back! LOL

 

[amamaofmany]

I also got the little TSC quail waterer because I liked how small and shallow it was. As an added precaution, I put it on top of an overturned, somewhat deep saucer. The upsidedown base of the saucer raised the waterer up a bit so no one would fall asleep with their heads in the water, and it has a depression on its overturned base that keeps the waterer from sliding off the saucer with chick activity.

It worked beautifully. The only drawback to the quail waterer is that I used sphegham moss in the bottom of the brooder, and several times a day I have to take the waterer out and scrape out the moss or it gets clogged and no one can drink. I imagine, though, that is a hazard with moss no matter what waterer you use.