Watering Alternative?

[Doubletap]

I guess everyone who has quail has problems with the birds soiling their own water dish. A couple times a day I go out and empty the nasty water and give them new. I'm wondering if the birds would drink from a guinea pig/ rabbit waterer. I know some birds will drink from these things. Do you think my birds will?

 

[Kullas]

yes ya can get them from a bottle drinker. ya can check out the link in my sig for the waterers i sell just for this occasion

 

[Plain_View_Farm]

PM sent Kullas...

 

[lagpmgdsls]

all mine drink from a water bottle. never had a problem getting them to accept it.

 

[Overeasyplz]

Yes it's really easy to train them to drink from a bottle. Mone love it and so do I i wash out bottles a lot less than dishes

 

[Doubletap]

I don't know how these birds get it done but it seems like half their droppings end up in their water and half in the food.

 

[Kullas]

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They aim to please or displease

 

[JJMR794]

If its just the water and food dishes your are clean....

and thank god eggs arent sticky....

 

[UmbraVulpis]

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Very uncomfortable flashbacks of picking up eggs that were squishy or wet on the unseen side.

 

[Akane]

They'll drink from a bottle with no training. When offered both a bottle and a dish from day 1 my chicks will start using the bottle first. The adults pick it up within minutes when they get thirsty. I try to use bottles with all my birds but it's not always possible to adjust them to the brooders or my more creative button pens. The buttons especially need a very small bottle or they can't move the ball and that usually requires a custom hanger to get it that far in to my glass tanks. With the coturnix it was easy to put a 16 or 32oz bottle on their wire sided pens.