Chickens must have fresh water
Fresh Water With Chickens is a Huge Must!
If you raise chickens you know that the water situation is a real mess. When I say this, I do mean a mess! If you’ve had even one baby chick, you have come to realize they do not care about neatness at all! And, in fact, chickens and birds in general are some of the dirtiest animals ever! Their main focus in life is to scratch and eat. So, when you put those with water, you have a real dilemma.
In our chicken run, we provide double walled fount 5 gallon watering cans in each run but that is not all. We also put black watering tubs in each run “in case”. What we’ve found is that chickens jump up on the watering cans dropping dirt from their claws in to the water area. This then can clog up the can and prevent it from working properly. So, to ensure that there is additional water in each run, we use black tubs. These we purchase from the dollar store I might add. We place these in every run for safe keeping.
To better secure a clean and safe environment around the watering cans, we suspend them using a rope and an S hook or place them up on a large square brick. Regarding the black tub, we place them on bricks and flat boards to keep them up and even which prevents the hens from scratching and dirt from going into the containers.
Every single day, we change out all water. We do not leave yesterday’s water in our watering containers so that our flock has fresh water daily. Watering cans vary in price from $15.00- $50.00. Nothing is too expensive for our babies. We want them to have fresh water every day. We try to buy the containers that fit our runs, size of flock and water situation. The black water tubs are simply a safe guard and bonus. How about you?
