Automatic Chicken waterer

[lintlicker]

Hey guys!

So we have 2 different square shaped runs connected with a 6' high fence down the middle. The first pen has 40 chickens and 6 ducks, the other has 5 turkeys. My thinking is this:

I want to have a watering system for both, maybe 20-30 gallons made out of PVC with maybe an auto float connected to hose or underground pipe source...What style nipples or cup waterers are recommended that DONT LEAK or BREAK and might be suited for all poultry? Leaning towards the nipple style but I am not sure if the ducks will like them. Any advice on this is greatly appreciated, will tackle this in the next 1-2 weeks!

Feel free to send links if you want and thanks in advance!

 

[Debbie292d]

I don't raise ducks but do know from reading other's posts that nipples won't work for them. They have to be able to clean their nares (nostrils) so the cups might be better but still not sure those are big enough for a duck.

We use verticle nipple bottles for chicks and horizontal nipple buckets for chickens and get those on Amazon. For us with just chickens, we'd never use the cups as those have to be cleaned, whereas nipples we just clean whenever we refill their buckets.