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Parent stock birds deserve their own breeder nipple Water is critical for regulating body temperature, digesting food, and eliminating body wastes. At normal temperatures, poultry consume at least twice as much water as feed and drinking water helps them grow and develop according to defined growth charts to help achieve their genetic potential to produce maximum numbers of fertile hatching eggs. If their fresh water source is not reliable, birds prioritize support for basic necessities first, thus negatively effecting the egg production process.
That is why the poultry experts turned to engineers to design a drinker suitable for parent stock birds which is easy to operate, maintains clean and dry litter conditions, and provides the necessary amount of water per day. Breeder companies recommend two main systems to supply water to breeders: plastic bell drinkers, and comparatively recently they started recommending nipple drinkers, recognizing that the nipples do provide fresher and cleaner water and meet the need for the dry litter conditions. So, what is that about the breeder nipple that it won the preference even of the most traditional growers?
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The breeder nipple was not just invented, it was already in use as a drinker for broilers. The main drinker requirements remained for the breeder nipple as well: to give the birds as much water as they need without wasting a drop. Val-Co took their high-quality stainless-steel roaster nipple and made a new model with the UP action only. UP nipple activation is essential to keep the litter dry and at the same time allow breeders to behave naturally during mating, being active at the time of feed distribution and going to the nest to lay eggs. A prominent parent stock company in Spain has changed their drinker systems to the Val-Co standard flow
