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[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

Okay, "quote" is not working for me:

CR: LOL. All my birds are small and spindly you wouldn't want them.

Nature: I built a bucket with nipples...I can't get the birds to use it. Course I still have their bucket of water to dip from. I dont' want to take it away from them. How do you teach them? I tried to hang something shiney off of it so they would go for it...but NO. Still nothing.

 

[CailetTempest]

oh things will work out... will talk to kids dad after the weekend because if i tried to call this weekend, his girlfriend wouldn't let him answer the phone. But it will work out. We usually are able to talk just not when the gf is around lol.

I know tomorrow should be a better day! going to a grandson's last baseball game of the year and also going to the farmer's market. Going to do a little cleaning at the new house... smiles smiles smiles... It will be 2 weeks before we can actually start moving into the place which involves putting in water heater and a little wiring so I can hook my stove up.

House only has a wood cook stove with a steam water heater attached to it. Seems strange to be excited about hard work but it is my house so I am loving it.!!!!!

 

[Sunbug4]

Okay, "quote" is not working for me:

CR: LOL. All my birds are small and spindly you wouldn't want them.

Nature: I built a bucket with nipples...I can't get the birds to use it. Course I still have their bucket of water to dip from. I dont' want to take it away from them. How do you teach them? I tried to hang something shiney off of it so they would go for it...but NO. Still nothing.

Oh Most Deffiantly CR, they are very small and spindly. No one would want them, trust me I just saw them, A real embarassment.. LOL i can not say that with a straight face..lol

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

Thank you Julie! I got my new girls from you and they are adorable and soooo friendly!!!! Thank you Dave for driving them here!!!! Thank you Teresa for letting them chill at your house and for the tour of your place and the chance to see all your feathery babies! They are AMAZING!! My daughter was just tickled to get to hold your tinest of babies!! And another thank you Julie for the introduction to chicken math! Ha Ha somewhere between Yakima and Omak my two became three! LOL They are all great!

fun having you. Too much chaos going on. Come up sometime when we can sit and relax and talk chicken. Yep, welcome to chicken Math.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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[FirewifeJess]

Okay, "quote" is not working for me:

CR: LOL. All my birds are small and spindly you wouldn't want them.

Nature: I built a bucket with nipples...I can't get the birds to use it. Course I still have their bucket of water to dip from. I dont' want to take it away from them. How do you teach them? I tried to hang something shiney off of it so they would go for it...but NO. Still nothing.

From everything I've read, chickens will *always* prefer standing water to nipple waterers; they're too much like the puddles chickens are instinctually drawn to. If you want them to use the nipple waterers you probably have to remove the buckets for a while. They're actually very smart birds and will peck at it just to investigate; it only takes them a single peck to realize that's where they get water from. I did notice my babies drink more from traditional waterers than their nipple waterer though, I think simply because they like it better. I'm sticking with tradtional because I want them always drinking a lot of water so we have healthy birds and larger eggs. HTH!

 

[Sunbug4]

Quote: I understand chaos..lol Would love to come and talk chicken sometime..

 

[Sunbug4]

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Just trying to help..

 

[Imp]

Quote: They are articles now.

You can find them in your profile, it takes a little doing. Unclick all the green buttons except articles to search for it. About 1/2 way down the page.
You can link to them using the "my coop" field in your profile. Like I did

Imp
Do you think you have to be a gold feather member? I couln't find it anywhere after clicking off the green buttons.



I don't think so.
I can get to your page, but can't add it to your community profile.

Here's the link to your pages
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/kmhunters-chicken-coop

Highlight & copy the link,
go into your profile,
click on edit community profile,
scroll to the bottom,
to the coop field box(it's the last one)
Paste it in and it will show up under your avatar/name.

Russ

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Quote: Some reason I am having a REEEEALLLY hard tyme beleevin you silly girlyz ! ! I will judge for my self when my secret agent returns with samples.