Prepare Waterers with Rocks

not that complicated to have baby chicks and you think about it if they had a mother H they'd be out there scratching through and eating dirt but we need to be sure our water is clean there will be a slimy residue that builds up inside the waterer and inside the dish that will make the chickens sick so this is the dish flip it over here we don't need any magical hippie concoctions guys we don't need apple cider vinegar and all these vitamin packs or anything we just need good fresh clean water and good fresh clean food we'll set this over in there after we put some Rock in it let me show you this real quick so just down here in the gravel driveway I just place a few Stones inside here many a chick has lost its life to drowning in water so we need to think about that and just put stones these are just clean Stones uh clean by Nature that will be inside the water or baby chicks just came out of a nice warm wet egg they want to go back to a nice warm wet spot and they can drown so don't put like a dog dish in get a chicken waterer this chicken waterer doesn't have anything for us to hang it up by but we will use a hanging chicken water once the chicks get a little bit bigger so that they don't mess up the water we'll show you there's a little trick with a piece of cardboard that we put under here so they don't kick shavings all up into their water this is the feeder that we use right here to get them started okay this is not what we use use three four five weeks down the road what we use three or four or five weeks down the road will be hanging because these chicks naturally instinctively dig okay so they'll be in here digging and kicking around shavings we put the waterer on top of cardboard and we replace that cardboard as needed and as this gets dirty we simply add more litter now the litter that you see is sawdust and you can use sawdust shavings anything but don't use cedar