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Great product. Make sure you get this design with 2 pins and metal ball, it does not drip. I have 26 chickens and 1 chick (neighbor kid saved from AG class).The 26 chickens were much easier to transition to the nipple In fact they started using it the day I put it in the coop even with the other waterer available. With 26 chickens all it takes is one to figure it out and they all get it, at least mine did. ;) The lone chick is a different story. It is a couple weeks old, very very skittish and afraid of everything. In fact since its solid black if it didn't have a comb I could believe it could be a wild bird. lol It hasn't taken to the nipple yet, Ive even put peanut butter on the tip...nothing. This is how I know the tip doesn't leak even a drop. I have that one installed in a 20oz pepsi bottle. So not all chickens will take to it. I do think when the little chick gets put into the other flock it will figure it out. Maybe as it gets older it will, since the nipple doesn't leak I will keep it available anyway. ***EDIT to add....the black chick eventually figured it out while still alone. After it got older I realized that for a chicken it isnt the sharpest knife in the drawer so i can say even dumb chickens can figure it out. ;DIve used them both ways. In the cap of 2 liter bottles with a line run through the sides of the bottom of the bottle. If you use a bottle make sure you make a small hole in the bottom so the air can enter and the water flow better. I currently have only 3 nipples for 26 birds and there is never a line. They are fitted into a pvc pipe and fed from a 5 gal bucket. The bucket lasts 5-6 days.You do need to understand that when the chickens use them, especially at first, they get a lot of water on the coop floor. This is not a problem with the nipple, its a problem with the chicken. I do have chickens that have figured out how to get their beaks more under the nipple and they dribble less water.To solve this issue I installed a gutter under the nipples. I was having an issue with them drinking the water out of the gutter. When dreaming this up your imagination makes you think this will be clean water, sadly no, they poo in it just like they do everything else. To avoid that I installed cheap gutter guards. THEY MUST HAVE SCREENS OR THE CHICKENS WILL CATCH THEIR TOES. Make sure the screens are on the top to prevent them pushing the screen out and catching their toes.Now if I could keep the wolves away I would be happy. :D

Where to start.This seemed like such a good idea. When my chicks hatched, I got so tired of constantly having to clean shavings out of their water, and worrying about them drowning was keeping me up at night! I thought these would be perfect! I saw some great ideas for chicks online, like using an old gatorade (or similar) bottle. You just drill a hole in the cap, slip one of these things in and away you go! I did just that and was quite pleased to find that it didn't leak at all.The chicks were uninterested.i was dumbfounded.After days of watching them ignore the delicious beverage in the waterer I fashioned with these things (don't worry, they had other water) I realized that what the instructions neglected to mention was that these things don't work in a vacuum the way a hamster bottle does. If there is not a vent in the container, they won't work. Okay, rookie mistake. I stabbed a hole in the container and BOOM. Chicks picked it up right away.Things were great for about 3 days. Then I started to notice that the water level was not dropping over the day. I checked and no water was coming out of the waterer. I took it apart and found that some dust from the chicks must have gotten into the container and worked its way into this thing. There wasn't really any visible contamination, but once cleaned and reassembled, it worked fine.Things were great again for a couple of days. Then once again, it quit working. I installed a different one. Same story. These things needed to be taken apart and cleaned every couple of days.When the girls got older I put them outside and put a couple of these in a 5 gallon bucket that had a lid and I put in a tiny vent in it with a cloth screen to prevent any dust from getting in but enough to let air in so they would work. Same thing. Sometimes they would work for up to a week but I always ended up having to take them apart.I gave up and got a traditional waterer.

I first installed one of these in the cap of a plastic water bottle by drilling the recommended size hole and then wrapping the threads with plumbers tape and screwing it in. It leaked a lot, and produced very smelly wet bedding in the chick brooder. Later I installed it again in a larger water bottle, but used silicone caulk around the threads and around the red body of the nipple both inside and outside the water bottle cap. This time it didn't leak, and has worked quite well

Wanted this to work, but my hens didn't take to it. I'm sure that if I'd started them on it in the brooder it'd have been a happy ending though. I will say it is very easy to convert a bucket into a waterer if you follow the instructions carefully and don't make your holes too big. The first bucket I drilled, one of the holes was a little rough and it leaked after installation. Luckily I had plenty of buckets, so I just use the badly drilled one for weeding the garden now. Don't let me discourage you from trying this, especially at this price. My hens were curious and drank from it occasionally, but I found they just preferred the method of drinking that they were brought up on... a standard waterer.

Some of these were a little leaky, and dripped even when not touched. I purchased for use in a brooder, screwed into a bottle cap, and then screwed into the bottom of a 5 gallon pail, and had to switch a few out here and there for leakage. Otherwise, great product to make sure chickens have clean water at all times with a minimum of fuss.

These are exactly what we needed to automate the watering process. DO use plenty of tape, the threads are not terribly strong, so you need to make sure it's sealed well with the tape. I would pay more to have metal threads - that said, they work well. (You will experience dripping here and there. Not a dry solution.)