What's Wrong With My Waterer?!

[Laurajean]

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Sorry about that!

No answer until now because I've been experimenting! I discovered that I can put it on a paper towel in a glass pie plate and it's fine. So I suspect it was "wicking" out through the paper towels that line my brooder as someone did suggest. I think it hadn't happened until lately because now the chicks are big enough to mess up the paper towels, as opposed to when they were tiny and the paper towels stayed put.

Thanks for all the help!

 

[elmo]

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Yup!

 

[backdoorchicken]

is it like this one?

 

[rancher hicks]

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Sorry about that!

No answer until now because I've been experimenting! I discovered that I can put it on a paper towel in a glass pie plate and it's fine. So I suspect it was "wicking" out through the paper towels that line my brooder as someone did suggest. I think it hadn't happened until lately because now the chicks are big enough to mess up the paper towels, as opposed to when they were tiny and the paper towels stayed put.

Thanks for all the help!

Ok we're good. I jsut hate those posts where we never hear from the OP again and never know what's what.

 

[Laurajean]

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Same concept but on a much smaller scale. Maybe 8 inches high by 3 inches in diameter? I would have purchased a bigger one if I realized what piglets they would end up being with water and food, but the lady suggested a small one because the "trough" part is small, so they would be less likely to fall asleep in it and drown.

 

[backdoorchicken]

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Same concept but on a much smaller scale. Maybe 8 inches high by 3 inches in diameter? I would have purchased a bigger one if I realized what piglets they would end up being with water and food, but the lady suggested a small one because the "trough" part is small, so they would be less likely to fall asleep in it and drown.

i have the one pictured and if i don't have the rubber ring in the lid just right then the water runs out. meaning, air was getting in through the top and there was no suction to stop the water from escaping out the hole.

 

[Laurajean]

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Oh okay. Mine doesn't have a rubber gasket like you described; it just screws onto the base and no ring. I'm pretty sure the paper towels must have gotten dipped in it, or it could have been sitting crooked; perhaps the glass pie plate is simply keeping it level. I can't say for sure, but the leaking seems to have stopped.

 

[ronikins]

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Same concept but on a much smaller scale. Maybe 8 inches high by 3 inches in diameter? I would have purchased a bigger one if I realized what piglets they would end up being with water and food, but the lady suggested a small one because the "trough" part is small, so they would be less likely to fall asleep in it and drown.

i have the one pictured and if i don't have the rubber ring in the lid just right then the water runs out. meaning, air was getting in through the top and there was no suction to stop the water from escaping out the hole.

Oh man, I have that waterer too. And we are scratching our heads as to why it leaks. Guess it's the levelness causing it. We figured out the gasket thing but it was still leaking. Driving me nuts!

 

[they'reHISchickens]

try a different jar. Sometimes the jars just don't seal well for whatever reason.

 

[gritsar]

IF the O ring is properly in place, try rubbing a fine line of vaseline around the O ring before screwing the lid onto the base.

Don't worry. The vaseline won't come in contact with the water and it wouldn't hurt the chicks if it did.