5 Water Care Tips You Should Follow for Your Chickens

5 WATER CARE TIPS YOU SHOULD FOLLOW FOR YOUR CHICKENS WWW.LITTLEFIELDSFARM.COM

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Did you know that about 20 of your chickens can drink as much water as a cow? It might seem like these little creatures don’t need a lot of water as compared to others, but they do need water consistently throughout the day to keep their bodily functions going. They especially need water many times a day during the summers when it’s blazing hot. So what can you do to ensure that your precious chickens get optimal amount and quality of water daily. Here are a couple of water care tips for your chickens that you should be following:

1. Use Highly Durable Poultry Drinkers A poultry or chicken drinker is your best friend when it comes to ensuring quality drinking water supply for your chickens and even other poultry birds.

Fulfilling the daily nutritional needs efficiently, poultry drinkers serve as highly robust water containers for the birds. These can’t be easily toppled over as the birds move around and push against them and they keep the water protected from external contaminating factors. There are a variety of chicken drinkers available for you to buy, so get some for your poultry farm.

2. Keep Changing the Water Chickens love sipping on newly filled fresh and clean water, which is why you should keep throwing out the old water and replacing it with new water regularly. The longer you leave water standing in the container, especially the plastic ones, the more are the chances for the water to become stagnant and undrinkable. Making your chickens drink this contaminated water over time is a sure shot way of causing them to fall sick. Hence, it’s super essential for you to keep changing the water in all chicken drinkers.

3. Special Care During Winters If you reside where temperatures fall below the freezing point of water in winters, you’ll need to pay special attention to the water intake needs of your chickens during the winter months. Bring warm water in a chicken drinker for the chickens to drink from at least twice in a day and wait for your chickens to drink the water from the drinker to their heart’s content.

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4. Place Water in Shade During Summers Chickens don’t particularly like drinking excessively warm water. If you leave water out in the sun in hot months, it might get too warm and hence unappealing to your chickens. If you keep the water in poultry drinkers, place the drinkers in shaded areas where sun rays can’t reach the water. This will keep the water cool and appealing to the chickens for drinking.

5. Keep Water Additives within Acceptable Range There might be certain medications and additives that you may feel like adding to the water for the healthcare of your chickens. But adding too many of these can alter the taste of the water, causing the water to become unpalatable to the chickens. Drinking insufficient amount of water, especially in summers, can cause heat stress in the chickens. Therefore, add only the necessary additives and medications to the water.

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