Single hen

[Guest]

Hi

As I am awaiting the arrival of the Cube..can someone tell me if you have to put water inside the house once they are in for the night?? or I get the impression no food either??

I just wondered re WHEN we get the hot weather if they need water inside the house at night

 

indie

[Cooks]

no, they will drink and eat everything they need before they go to bed just have food and water available for them during the day.

[Guest]

Thanks CM

I keep thinking of lots of questions.....

Can u let me know if you just use the omlet Glugs and Grub is it?? or do u have one of those stand up feeders and waterers too??? ie those plastic ones i have seen them in the shops?

Trying to get prepared and am going to look for some other bantams tomorrow or something else to go with the gingernuts that i am waiting for

cheers

indie

[Cooks]

Well I am currently introducing 2 new girls to my existing 2 so I have both sorts of feeders and drinkers in the walk in run at the moment , ready for tomorrow when they are going to wake up together for the first time.

 

With the cube you get a superglug and a grub, some hens take to the superglug fine, others dont, so it's a matter trying, my older girls have no problem with it after I tapped it a few times and they saw where the water dripped through the nipples. I like the superglug as it holds so much water you dont have to keep topping it up all the time.

 

You can also get a 'glug' which is what comes with the smaller eglu, so if yours dont get on with the superglug, they might manage better with a glug, or a standard drinker.

[bluekarin]

no, they will drink and eat everything they need before they go to bed just have food and water available for them during the day.

 

I thought you had to leave them some water in their house at night. Mine tend to go up to bed and then drink water for ages. They do have access to fresh water during the day so they are not thirsty.

[Cooks]

Well I have never heard of people putting water in the hen house overnight

[Falkor]

I just have water in the glug in the run and nothing in the Eglu.

 

When I lived on the farm and we had forty odd hens they never had drinkers in their little shed either. They had drinkers in the yard....but much preferred to balance on the edge of the cows water troughs