How To Use A Chicken Waterer

In this video I'm going to talk to you about water containers for chickens. Here we always use the plastic ones simply because I know I can keep them nice and clean. You can always give them a good scrub around the outside and inside like that, and you know they have got a good supply of water throughout the day.

It is vitally important that your chicken never runs out of water. So here we have a four liter drinker and a two and half liter drinker. The two and a half liter drinker you would probably have for two or so or three hens.

This one perhaphs about four hens here. You just unscrew it like that, pour the water in, and then just simply insert that and turn it. Make sure it's on tight otherwise the water will come all over yourself.

Then you can just put it on the ground like that, or of course hang it up at about head height like that. You can use water troughs or some people find an old bowl around their house but I wouldn't suggest that because you have: A. The chickens could quite easily walk in it and then their droppings can go into the water and contaminate the water for a start and then of course they might just tip it if it's not a really heavy dish or a trough they can tip it over and you find- you come back at the end of the day and they haven't got any water left which is not ideal at all.

An egg is seventy-five percent water so I cannot emphasize enough the importance of making sure they do not run out of water. So as I say this one here the two and a half meter one would be exactly the same. You fill that up with water and again put it on the ground or hang it up.

That's how to use a chicken waterer.