Plastic 1 Quart Jar Waterer

With 14 chickens and 5 guineas, you will soon be filling these 4 or 5 times daily. They are fine for what they do with tiny little birds but are way undersized for even a couple of grow chickens. Dirty water and poop will soon be your first problem.

That is what I thought, but, since I put the waterer up higher, there is no dirty water or poo. They get a lot of their water from the moist feed and I only have to fill once a day

I didn't think that would be enough water either, although if the feed is wet and it isn't too hot that should help, when it gets hot you will need a lot more water

Chicken nipple waterers are great. You buy just the nipple part that screws into anything really. You can for chicks drill a hole in a bottle cap and use a soda bottle for them hung from their brooder. Then when they are older you can have the nipples screwed into the bottom of a bucket. they learn almost instantly to drink from them and there is NO WAY to get dirt or gross stuff in it, as well as they are hanging so they can't knock them over.
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This kind of waterier isn't for goslings. They need to immerse their nostrils in water to clear them out. For goslings and ducks both I have found that making a frame with 2 x 4's with screening on top works the best. you set their waterier on the screen ( I use a fortex quart tub or to start a stable bowl) and a pan under the screen to catch the mess. Make the platform large enough for the babies to walk on. For chicks I use the quart waterier but I set it in a bowl the size so it sits on top. It gets it off the litter so you have less gunk in it and any spillage is contained in the bowl.

The chick waterer.
Mine dose not let the water come out eather but every hour or so I don't really recomed this to any one!

I don't like the plastic chicken water containers because they seem to get a bad smell inside real quick, compared to the glass jars.
I just got some Welsummers and RIR and they have all taken to the nipples for watering like they were born to them. I have some small gatorade bottles and we put a nipple in the lid and they are working real good. I had regular water containers for the chicks and dipped their little beaks in like you are supposed to. They didn't seem to know what to do about the water. I hung a bottle of water with the nipple in the lid inside and they went right to it.
Also, on the plastic or glass bottles, sometimes the bottle gets turned too far and too tight and that prevents the water from coming out like it should.

Thank god it isn't just me. I hate this water device. The big one the clerk sold me is far too big
for now. It has the nipples but I can't use it yet. I'm hoping to find something that resembles a
hamster water thingy.

You're right, they are very nice. But my trusty green on just got a crack in the bottom. Had to throw it away.

We got a couple of these when the girls were little. Now that they are much bigger, we replaced the plastic container with big honey jars (5 quart size I believe) and elevated them on blocks of wood. These work ok, they do get messy but I can clean & fill them where my husband has to take care of the bigger 3 gallon water (too heavy for me).

I accidentally bought the waterer base, so right now I use the ring as a feeder, keeping the jar on top so the chicks can't scratch it as much. They managed to spill all the water out, when I had it filled with water, into their brooder though, so I stopped putting water in it.

I agree I have three use them only with pullets of 4 or less

Hello,

I really like this item. My only con is that you should wash it twice a day.
It can get quite smelly. But I really liked that I could use a mason jar instead of plastic.

I hope anyone who buys it has good luck with it!

-The Angry Hen

Love these ! I have about 8 of them, different colors...they work great for the babies ! Mine are cleaned daily and sanitized with bleach SOLUTION and scrubbed to remove biofilm.

I have several and all work well. The "worst" thing about them is the little bevel near the lip of the bottle but a brush cleaner gets it pretty well.

I have used one of these they are "ok" for the beginning