imacowgirl2
Songster
How does everyone keep fresh unfrozen water available to their very young chicks? Our older birds use heated horizontal nipple waterers but that isn’t an option for the little guys. We have about 20 chicks ranging in age from 1 day to 5 weeks old and I’m not sure how to keep their water from freezing in their outdoor brooder. We usually start out chicks on vertical nipple waterer but our last big one broke a few moths ago so we’ve been using a regular chick waterer all summer — would a vertical nipple waterer with a tank heater in it stay warm enough to keep the nipples from freezing? Daytime highs in 40-60* range, overnight lows dipping into low 20s some nights.