Best waterer for turkey poults in brooder?

[User635240]

Hi, can anyone recommend a product that is suitable for turkey poults? I've tried three different kinds, two hanging waterers for rabbits (one with a mini dish attached to a bottle, and one with a ball bearing), and one open dish resting on the floor of the brooder, and the poults keep spreading the water everywhere and get dirty and wet. I'm not sure why the turkeys get so much water everywhere, when chickens and rabbits use these waterers without all the mess.

 

[R2elk]

Hi, can anyone recommend a product that is suitable for turkey poults? I've tried three different kinds, two hanging waterers for rabbits (one with a mini dish attached to a bottle, and one with a ball bearing), and one open dish resting on the floor of the brooder, and the poults keep spreading the water everywhere and get dirty and wet. I'm not sure why the turkeys get so much water everywhere, when chickens and rabbits use these waterers without all the mess.

I use a standard one gallon waterer similar to this. Just a standard waterer available at most feed stores.

I set mine up on a board after the first week. Many fill the trough with marbles at first.

 

[JennD08]

1000% agree - we had to fill our trough with some rocks from our yard because we had a 2-week-old poult drown themselves in it.

 

[R2elk]

1000% agree - we had to fill our trough with some rocks from our yard because we had a 2-week-old poult drown themselves in it.

I learned a long time ago that this will not happen if the brooder is big enough. I no longer put marbles in the waterer but I also use a 4' x 4' brooder. I have never had a chick, poult or keet drown in the waterer in that brooder.

I know of ones where the poults were kept in a small plastic tote that they did drown but none in a nice big brooder.