Drinkers for chickens: selection rules

At any age, small chickens need water: 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. Some poultry farmers believe that before 2 weeks of chicks do not need to drink, just provide them with good food, but this opinion is erroneous.

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 life of babies. 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, kids simply will not be able to get into this water tank and, accordingly, will remain dry. As soon as the chickens drink a little bit of liquid, it is immediately replenished from the jar.

To install such a capacity, you do not need special knowledge and skills. 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 placing it in a suitable place for it, make sure that the chickens had unhindered access to it.

Such drinkers for chickens are inexpensive, and it is better to 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 become dirty, does not grow turbid, in it the remains of food do not float. 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 think about how to make a drinking bowl for chickens. To do this, you can use not a small special saucer, but a trough-shaped container, above which a bottle of water is installed. 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-drill holes for drinking. Such drinking bowls 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 tank, as in the pool.

There are many different options for older chicks. Some of them can be produced on their own. A popular drinking bowl for chickens, made by hand, looks like this: a common 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 designed to ensure that the children can only go through their head. 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 lift the entire structure and change the water.