Drinking bowls for chickens: selection rules
At any age, small chickens are neededwater: even daily babies need to install drinkers. A sufficient amount of moisture allows them to dissolve the nutrients supplied with the feed, and during the drinking, the babies are washed by the beaks from the food that is hanging in them.
The first drinking bowls for chickens should be small: you can use a small skillet, plastic covers. Water should be poured only on the bottom - so that the little chickens do not wet their down. It is best to use vacuum drinkers in the first weeks of a baby's life. They are a tray-saucer with a gutter, which covers a glass or plastic can. Vacuum drinkers for chickens are arranged in such a way that the water in them flows into a special stand only up to a certain level. In addition, the kids simply can not get into this container of water and, accordingly, will remain dry. As soon as the chickens drink a little bit of liquid, it immediately replenishes from the can.
To install such a capacity, you do not need tospecial knowledge and skills will be required. Simply fill the jar with water, cover the neck with a special saucer with a groove and, holding the structure from one side behind the bottom of the container, and on the other - for the pan, turn it sharply so that the bottom is on top. Now gently place it in a suitable place for it, make sure that the chickens had unhindered access to it.
Such drinkers for chickens are inexpensive, and betterto buy them from the calculation that one tank is capable of providing water with about 50 heads. Their main advantage is that the water in them does not get dirty, does not grow dull, and the remains of food do not float in it. Poultry farmers only need to ensure that the pallets do not run out of liquid, and periodically wash them.
When the chicks are older, you can alreadythink about how to make a drinking bowl for chickens. To do this, you can use not a small special saucer, but a trough-like container, above which is installed a bottle of water. It is located down the neck in such a way that it is in the water, but does not touch the bottom. This will keep the water at one level. If the capacity from which grown-up kids will drink is too large, then it must be topped up with plywood, and in it pre-drilled holes for drinking. Such drinkers for chickens will provide them with clean water, but the chicks will not be able to soak the breasts, and the more they will not come to dip in the tanks, as in the pool.
There are many different options forolder chicks. Some of them can be produced on their own. A popular drinking bowl for chickens, made by hand, looks like this: a usual container with water around the perimeter is surrounded by a cardboard box in which special windows are cut out. The size of the holes is calculated so that only the head can pass through the toddlers. So they can drink water, but at the same time they will remain dry. To the cylinder-mounted cardboard, a conical lid is attached, equipped with a loop, for which it will be possible to raise the entire structure and change the water.
