Chicken Waterer Upgrade

I haven’t blogged much about our chicks lately. So here are a few photos so you can see that they no longer look like chicks!

We’ve kind of gone along with our chickens for years, but recently have been discussing their water. We’ve tried buckets, pans, and the inverted “fountain type” waterers, but the problem is always the same – the water doesn’t stay clean. So we decided to try waterer nipples. They’re installed in a water container, like a 5-gallon bucket, so the chickens can help themselves and the water stays clean. Here’s what one looks like.

We were both a little concerned about how to show the chickens where their water now was. But there was no need to worry! One of the little cockerels ran right up to it and started pecking. They figured it out pretty quickly.