4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[FORENSICA]

Hi, I got a Super glug for girls since our neighbour will look after them soon and I do not want him to have a trouble with giving them water every day.

 

Girls seemed to get the idea of pecking at it fairly soon. However it looks like that they spend most of their day pecking at it to get some water. I am getting worried that at some point they will get dehydrated. Is that really well thought product suitable for hens?

I am trying to imagine how would it be for me if I was getting only a few drops of water every time I was thirsty

 

Does anybody have their hens successfully full time on Super Glug?

 

Thanks!

[SAB]

Mine manage fine with it. I also have noticed that if there are droplets of rain on the bars of the run that they like to drink that also. Some of my ex-batts prefer to drink from a standard Glug, but a tree stump beside the Superglug has given them the option of drinking from the top. Some prefer this and some of my chickens prefer the drip method.

[Steve.]

Mine manage fine too.

 

It gives them something to do.

[FORENSICA]

Thanks for the reply, both of you.

Steve, do your girls have only the Super Glug or do they have water in normal Glug too? I was thinking the same that they at least have something to do, but do not want to torture them with thirst But if your girls are completely fine with it and surviving, then I will be happy with that too. Thanks.

[SAB]

Forensica - I should have said that my original girls only had the superglug and managed fine; I only got an original glug when my ex-batts were in temporary accommodation and then added it to the run when they merged with the rest of the flock.

[Steve.]

Superglug only.

 

The trick was placing it high enough so they could all just still reach, and not too low so they would have problems swallowing.

 

I connectted a cabletie on the weldmesh to mark the height of where it needs to go when I take it off for a clean so I don't have to reinvent the wheel everytime.

Edited July 23, 2008 by Guest

[FORENSICA]

Great, that reassured me lot, thanks!

 

I have "only" eglu and not cube, but I placed it above the door, and so I will try to put it even higher so they really have to stretch for it.

[Seagazer]

I must admit I always wonder if they are just thirsty all the time or that they don't get enough water from the superglug.

 

Also not being sure if its too high or too low.

 

I put a large plant pot saucer with some water on the lawn this afternoon whilst they were freeranging and they loved having a drink from it.

[FORENSICA]

I must admit I always wonder if they are just thirsty all the time or that they don't get enough water from the superglug.

 

Also not being sure if its too high or too low.

 

The same here, still a bit sceptical but I will give it a try for a few days and will see how they are doing. But it seems that for others it works fine. Also I spoke to my friend who teaches and agriculture UNI and she said that that kind of drinking system is routinely used in poultry farming. So I will observe them, but so far they seem OK

[Ms Tilytinkle]

Hello Forensica

Well, mine absolutely prefer a plant pot!!!! Which was discovered during all of the rain we had recently, when it was filled with rain water . .all of them gathered around it & drank for quite a while from it. Observing them, i noticed they were really enjoying themselves & swishing flicking the water about & all sipping then throwing their heads back to glug glug it down. All 6 of them would gather round at the same time (they still do) I fill the 2 glugs we have . . but they much prefer the old plastic pot container

full of water, infact when i refill it they come running towards it.

Hmmmm wish i'd known from the start - could've saved myself the cost of 2 glugs

as i now pop their plant pot into the run with them as they seem to much prefer their drinking ritual & meeting around the pot! Grrrrrr don't you just luv'm!

 

Ms Tillys8chooksalayingooohwhatanoise

[alison]

I have a super glug, but they seem to prefer the great big earthenware dog bowl that I put in when `I was introducing two new chooks and put in two lots of feeding stations to make sure the newbies got food as they were being chased away.

 

They like it so I have left it, they do use both, but it means in the hot weather, I have no worries about running dry.

[S & S]

Hi,

Sorry im a bit confused, with a normal glug do they just drink from the top or do they have do use the thing underneath like the superglug, im thinking of changing from the normal drinker i have as they keep knocking it over!

thanks

[mayflower]

My hens took to the superglug...like water when they first arrived. However, I suspected that they were all dehyrdated. So I now have a long plastic planter that holds about a gallon of water. My hens have put on weight and love dipping their beaks deeply into the water. It does get messed up with food from their beaks, so has to be changed every day. But even that has turned into a game for them. I lift the watering can high as I pour the tap water into the trough and they love getting splashed and pop the bubbles as the water lands into the container. I get soaked as well!