Best liner/ bedding for drop tray

[chooklady]

I'm fed up with my hens making their water dirty! It started with Willow, the Sussex Star, she sits on top of the glug and drinks from the top. Now most of the others do it. Does anyone else have this problem. The water and the glug get very dirty very quickly.

 

I think the glug needs some sort of lift up lid that covers the holes at the top, what do you think

[Cooks]

I have one that likes to make the water really dirty but I am currently only using a standard glu.

 

There is someone on here that has designed a wonderful plastic cover to go over the superglug to stop them making it dirty but I cant think who it is

 

I will try to find it.

edited this is not the picture I was thinking of, but at a different angle, it's a perfect design I think.

(I hope you dont mind me using your picture Jules )

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22249844@N06/3045337545/

[TAJ]

My layers have an upside down large pottery flower pot on top of which sits one of those upside down type water containers (it could also be hung up). This seems to do the trick.

 

My 3 week old chciks had their water raised up, but were still pooing in it and getting bedding in it, so even fully cleaned every 12 hours was no good, so they now have a hanging water continer at neck height.

 

Tracy

Edited January 21, 2009 by Guest

[chickenanne]

Can you replace it with a standard hanging waterer? Any farm supply shop selling poutry stuff will have them, or off internet. The plastic ones aren't expensive and they're really difficult to perch on!

[Cinnamon]

I had the same problem with the superglug,so we made this - it works a treat.

 

 

[chooklady]

Eggcellent, I will look for something suitable, I can usually come up with ideas but I've had too much going on to give it any thought, so thankyou very much for your replies.

I will let you know how I get on.