RitzieAnn
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I can't remember if it was this forum, or another forum... but somebody had an automatic watering system that I think would work great for me! Now i can't find it! :?
It was a bucket, with a floating flag on the top (so you could easily see the water level) and it was placed above the cage. There was a tube (or maybe tubes) that went down, and to each cage, where it fed some type of water spout/nipple for the rabbits to lick to get the water
I have a colony of 5 in a large cage, and the "house" area has room for a bucket. I'd like to make something like this, so their water stays clean longer (they're drinking form a hanging goat feeder) they currently kick hay, and poo (how? lol) into their water, so I'm having to dump & rinse every/every other day. I was using chicken waterers, which was great, until the weather got cold, and I started putting bedding in the house area. I will probably keep bedding in that area always now, so they have another non wired place for their feet. So, I've got to figure out a clean water system.
I had thought of putting the spouts from the old (destroyed) bottles, into a bucket (like the calf nursing buckets, then realized those ball spouts need a vacuum to work
Ideas please!!
EDIT: apparently I posted this on this forum before. Sorry. lol here is the link:
better-watering-ideas-t4533.html
Freezing (as mentioned in the single reply I got on the other thread) isn't a large issue for my area. My coop is pretty well built, and the house part of it, with the single heat lamp in there,the house area is 8-12 degrees warmer than the outside temp. It's not often that we get temps less than 20 degrees
It was a bucket, with a floating flag on the top (so you could easily see the water level) and it was placed above the cage. There was a tube (or maybe tubes) that went down, and to each cage, where it fed some type of water spout/nipple for the rabbits to lick to get the water
I have a colony of 5 in a large cage, and the "house" area has room for a bucket. I'd like to make something like this, so their water stays clean longer (they're drinking form a hanging goat feeder) they currently kick hay, and poo (how? lol) into their water, so I'm having to dump & rinse every/every other day. I was using chicken waterers, which was great, until the weather got cold, and I started putting bedding in the house area. I will probably keep bedding in that area always now, so they have another non wired place for their feet. So, I've got to figure out a clean water system.
I had thought of putting the spouts from the old (destroyed) bottles, into a bucket (like the calf nursing buckets, then realized those ball spouts need a vacuum to work
Ideas please!!
EDIT: apparently I posted this on this forum before. Sorry. lol here is the link:
better-watering-ideas-t4533.html
Freezing (as mentioned in the single reply I got on the other thread) isn't a large issue for my area. My coop is pretty well built, and the house part of it, with the single heat lamp in there,the house area is 8-12 degrees warmer than the outside temp. It's not often that we get temps less than 20 degrees
