5 TIPS TO PROVIDE CLEAN AND QUALITY DRINKING WATER FOR YOUR POULTRY BIRDS WWW.LITTLEFIELDSFARM.COM
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When we talk about all the things that poultry birds need to survive and thrive, water ranks at the top among the most important requisite things. Water is a necessary nutrient for all living beings, whether it’s us humans or our little friends poultry birds. The health and performance of the birds are directly corelated with their water intake. You compromise with one, you compromise with the other too. It’s important for you to ensure that your birds have a constant supply of clean and fresh drinking water so that they can have an optimal growth rate and egg production performance. Below are a couple of tips that you can follow to always ensure safe and good-quality drinking water for your poultry birds:
1. Choose the Right Kind of Waterer Waterer is how you serve the water to your birds, and this can make a big difference in your efforts for maintaining proper sanitation. Buying poultry drinkers would be the best option here. A poultry drinker is designed to be specially robust, meaning it can’t be easily toppled over by your birds. This will protect the water against contamination. Plus it will be easier for you to keep an eye on the quantity of water available to the birds at any given time.
2. Change the Water Timely You should change the water every day. The longer you let the water sit out, the longer you let it become the breeding grounds for all sorts of bacteria and germs. Whenever you find that water has turned muddy or cloudy, throw it out and replace it with clean water.
3. Regularly Clean the Waterer Have proper cleaning supplies ready on hand to thoroughly clean the waterers at regular intervals. Dirty water containers can pollute even the cleanest of water, so it’s important to oversee the cleanliness of the containers too. A big advantage of using a chicken drinker is that it is really easy to clean. Its simple design enables you to quickly clean it as often as you want to. Whatever dirt and debris that are hidden anywhere in the crevices can also be easily cleaned out. This will protect against germ build-up in the future.
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4. Try Using Water Additives for Extra Benefits Water is good on its own. But if you ever wanted to increase the nutritional value of the water, you can do so with the help of water additives. Since poultry birds usually consume water more than their feed, you can use water to provide your birds with healthy supplements like antibiotics, vitamins, prebiotics, electrolytes, probiotics, etc. As you see, water has more wonderful uses than just quenching thirst.
5. Place the Waterers with Good Planning Don’t just place the drinkers wherever you find an empty space. Instead think about the places where the water in the drinkers will be safest from any contamination. For instance, you shouldn’t keep drinkers near the place where your birds roost and nest, since there’s a risk of faecal contamination in these places. Also when it’s hot, keep the drinkers in shade away from the sun so that the birds can have cool drinking water. --X--X--X--
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