Emily77
Chirping
Hi! I’m pretty new here.
I have 15 chicks and 3 ducklings, all hatched mid-March.
The water situation is a mess. I’ve been using pint mason jar waterers, and a supplemental bowl big enough for the ducks to get their heads wet. The bowl is off to the side, sort of off the beaten path so they can make a big mess of it, which they do, and it’s usually empty within an hour or so of filling it twice a day. Even with their own bowl to splash around in, they still muck up the mason jar waterers. I’m changing out the water 2-3 times daily, and still it leaves the chicks with sludgy gross water to drink for much of the time.
I don’t have space to separate them.
I just switched to a big 5 gallon jug with little poultry cup waterers(pic attached). Will they figure it out? I really don’t want to find dead chicks because I was trying to give them clean water and they couldn’t figure out how to get it. I filled the little cups so they know it’s a water source, but I work tomorrow, they’ll be on their own for 12 hours.
Any advice appreciated.
I have 15 chicks and 3 ducklings, all hatched mid-March.
The water situation is a mess. I’ve been using pint mason jar waterers, and a supplemental bowl big enough for the ducks to get their heads wet. The bowl is off to the side, sort of off the beaten path so they can make a big mess of it, which they do, and it’s usually empty within an hour or so of filling it twice a day. Even with their own bowl to splash around in, they still muck up the mason jar waterers. I’m changing out the water 2-3 times daily, and still it leaves the chicks with sludgy gross water to drink for much of the time.
I don’t have space to separate them.
I just switched to a big 5 gallon jug with little poultry cup waterers(pic attached). Will they figure it out? I really don’t want to find dead chicks because I was trying to give them clean water and they couldn’t figure out how to get it. I filled the little cups so they know it’s a water source, but I work tomorrow, they’ll be on their own for 12 hours.
Any advice appreciated.