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Chicken Nipples
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You'll want to order a 10 pack DIY kit in our homemade chicken waterer store. I'm glad you enjoyed our waterer enough to come back for more.
Oldcountryboy --- Assuming you make a PVC or bucket system with plenty of water in the reservoir, we recommend using at least one nipple for every 17 birds. That would mean 2 nipples in your chicken pen, 1 in your duck pen, and 3 in your quail pen as a bare minimum. With that many birds, I usually recommend adding an extra nipple per pen so that you won't get a bully hogging the water, and to have a smaller waterer on hand in case you need to put someone in an isolation coop, so the 10 pack DIY kit would be perfect for you. If you leave a note with your order, I'll leave out the hanging wires and throw in an 11th nipple.
Aim --- the hose method would work as long as you use a flow restrictor. The instructions that come with our DIY kits give tips on making a PVC pipe waterer that might also be right up your alley.
We need something that does not leak so badly for use with our guinea pigs. Can you recommend chickennipples for this, or an alternative. They are using vacuum-type water bottles with the lightly-spring-loaded ball bearing in the tube tip now, if you are familiar with the type, and these seem to leak a lot, fast. I realize the piggies drool a lot while drinking, but this is much worse. Any ideas? Keith
Unfortunately, I think our nipples are too pointy for guinea pigs. I suspect they'd hurt their tongues.
I wonder why your water bottles leak so badly --- is there perhaps a hole somewhere that prevents a suction from forming? I wish I could be more helpful!
I'm sorry you had trouble --- it sounds like your chickens are in that ornery 2% who need a little extra TLC to adjust to a new system. Very glad to hear you got them trained, though --- now they can enjoy clean water!
If anyone else is having problems, our troubleshooting tips are on our website as well as the CD.