ChaoSS
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I've bred the rabbits for the second time, and this time I just can't keep up with filling the bottles. Since I have more kits this time too, it's going to take more cages, and more bottles when I separate them. So I finally got around to a watering system.
1 five gallon bucket, a bunch of vinyl tubing, and this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CF6 ... UTF8&psc=1
The watering nipples look like this:
I tried installing them the way that picture shows in the front, with the part that sticks out on the bottom, and they can't seem to figure it out. Today (after their water bottles ran out) I tried to show them the water, they got all excited, but no luck getting it out themselves. One of the moms was basically swallowing the whole watering nipple and still not seeming to have any luck. So I flipped them around, figured maybe they need to be able to lick the little valve thing, and that would make it easier, same deal, they aren't having any luck. If I touch it with my finger water is coming out just fine, it takes almost no pressure to get water out. So I gave them their bottles back for now, any ideas? Do I need a different style watering nipple? Which one?
1 five gallon bucket, a bunch of vinyl tubing, and this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CF6 ... UTF8&psc=1
The watering nipples look like this:
I tried installing them the way that picture shows in the front, with the part that sticks out on the bottom, and they can't seem to figure it out. Today (after their water bottles ran out) I tried to show them the water, they got all excited, but no luck getting it out themselves. One of the moms was basically swallowing the whole watering nipple and still not seeming to have any luck. So I flipped them around, figured maybe they need to be able to lick the little valve thing, and that would make it easier, same deal, they aren't having any luck. If I touch it with my finger water is coming out just fine, it takes almost no pressure to get water out. So I gave them their bottles back for now, any ideas? Do I need a different style watering nipple? Which one?
