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How do I get chickens to use water dispenser in cube?

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Mine will use it just fine. The first time they looked at it they were very puzzled. However Blodwyn will peck my fingers if I hold them down because she thinks I have food in them. I held my fingers down close to the superGlug and she started pecking, and then I moved them closer to the drinker until she was pecking at that.

 

Once she realised she could get water she forgot my fingers, and the others learned by watching her.

 

They do prefer a bowl, but it does get disgusting within a few minutes of putting it down. I put a bowl down after the superGlug went up and they did drink from it, but pretty soon started to ignore the bowl and just use the super Glug.

 

If you don't have chickens that eat from your hand, it might be more difficult to teach them. Blodwyn is top chicken, so teaching the top chicken might also be best.

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If you take out the bowl of water tomorrow morning, then they come out they'll want a drink straight away, if you tap the superglug with a stick it should attract them to it and they should get used to it.

 

Obviously don't leave them with no glug/bowl if they don't gt the hang of it, but they should after a while :)

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