- Jun 10, 2014
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To chemicals? Everything is chemicals.True, but we can still take steps to DRASTICALLY reduce our exposure.
It strikes me as a bit strange that someone is worried about giving their chickens a plastic water jug because of 'leaching chemicals', but is willing to fill up a water jug for them and pour in bleach, a strong oxidizer - something that is hazardous at much lower levels than the chemicals that some plastics leach. You want to reduce exposure to things that are dangerous in the concentrations you normally run into them - opening the bleach bottle once a day is more dangerous than all the 'metal exposure' your chickens are getting drinking from a galvanized waterer, or all the 'chemicals' coming from your plastic waterer.
Rainbowrooster is right here - if you're worried about plastics, the horse is already out of the barn - chicken food comes in plastic lined bags - even food cans are lined in plastic.
Suzie, if you're worried about water quality, you'd be better served finding a way to keep your chickens from crapping in the water than trying to bleach everything to death. I'd suggest horizontal spring loaded poultry nipples.