Wet chicks on a cold night
One detail to note is the
placement of an Avian Aqua
Miser in respect to new chicks.
I started off with one in
each corner on the starboard side of the box. The height turned out to
be a problem when all 24 chicks decided to crowd into that corner
during a brief
fire episode. The chicks
who were bunched up close to the nipple were activating the valve and
dumping water on themselves and their immediate neighbors. I'm no
expert, but wet chicks on a cold night sounds a bit too close to a
country western song for my comfort level.
The lesson is to avoid corner
placements of your automatic
chicken waterer for the first couple of weeks. After that you
should be able to raise the waterer to avoid any such issues in the
future.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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