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@50-140 can you elaborate a little on your water setup?
I've got to make changes this summer.
ETA: Regarding your "rooster drinking cup" I'm thinking maybe those would be more successful for me overall than the little red cups with the yellow nipple thingies. Those were useless in my chicken setup. They didn't learn and even up on concrete blocks, the tiny cups filled with dirt and straw/crud and became unusable within a day. The small size is the problem I think. I didn't know about these larger ones. PLUS...these fill with water with no activation by the chickens, from what I can see.
Is this correct?
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There are two main types of larger poultry drinking cups made, one has an internal cup which has a removable insert for cleaning purposes which is what you want. The less expensive ones are just one cup which means you got to take the entire water bucket out to clean the cups. I keep my water bucket on cut rounds of wood which are a foot off the floor and they still muck it up in a few days.
They auto fill when mounted in a bucket.
I've had good luck with this particular cup, they're available on amazon.
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I mount six cups in a 5 gallon bucket with a gamma lid. I drill a two inch hole in the top, and press in a rubber stopper, which I cut a slit in the side. Winter time I use a 50 Watt submersible aquarium heater and run the cord through the slit in the rubber stopper.