3 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD USE CHICKEN DRINKERS ON YOUR POULTRY FARM
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Regardless of what season it is, keeping your chickens well-hydrated should be your number one priority. And no, it is not as simple as just using an old dish for filling up the water with and placing it randomly about the poultry farm. The container needs to be just of the right size so that the chickens can comfortably drink water out of it. It should be built such that it’s not easily toppled over by the chickens or so that the chickens don’t throw stuff into the water and contaminate it. As you can see, watering chickens needs special devices called chicken drinkers. Only a chicken drinker can satisfy the criteria that’s required from the container used for watering the chickens. Here are some of the important advantages of using chicken drinkers:
1. Track the Water Consumption by Chickens You need to always make sure that your chickens are well-hydrated. Not drinking enough water can cause various health problems in chickens. Their growth will be hampered, they won’t lay sufficient eggs, their appetite will get affected, and so on. For all their bodily functions to continue efficiently, chickens do need to drink enough water. Chicken drinkers make it easy for you to ensure that your chickens are indeed drinking enough water. This is so because you need to personally keep filling and re-filling the water in the chicken drinker. You know exactly the amount of water you are filling in the chicken drinker at the beginning of the day and the amount of water that’s leftover in the chicken drinker at the end of the day. This can give you a fair idea of how much water has been consumed by your chickens throughout the day. If the consumed amount is below the normal range, you’ll know that there’s some problem that needs fixing.
2. Keep the Water Clean and Drinkable It’s not only about the amount of water that your poultry birds drink, it’s also about the quality of water that they drink. You never want your birds to drink unclean and unhygienic water, this could do them more harm than good. An ordinary water container runs much more risks of water contamination as compared to a poultry drinker. The robust build and smart designing of poultry drinker allows it to keep the water relatively
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safe from debris, dirt, soil, etc. By providing clean drinking water for your poultry birds, poultry drinkers ensure their superior well-being. Plus every time you see that the water has become a little dirty in the poultry drinker, you can easily throw away the old water and replace it with fresh new water.
3. Simple and Easy Cleaning Process Chicken drinkers feature a simple and efficient design that makes them easy to clean on a regular basis, and clean water containers are important in keeping the water clean. Any time you find that some debris or dirt are stuck in the crevices of the chicken drinker, you can immediately take steps to clean them out and prevent them from soiling the water.
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