watering the poultry

[moxeeguy]

Many with small acreage and guinea flocks are forced to deliver water
in some fairly manual labor type methods...like a 2 gallon bucket
being really common. Water is HEAVY. Some are more fortunate than
others. I could let my flock walk over to the stream...but then they'd
be 20 ft from the neighbors land...too close for comfort. I have well
water on our 20 acres of heaven. The well is shallow...just 67 ft
down, not the best as far as clarity goes but clean...just a bit of
iron oxide and a hint of sulfur...common in this region and acceptable
considering the water is free. We have a 3/4 hp pump...which is 3
times larger than the average home water pump. There is so much water
at 67 ft down...we could have a 10 hp pump....and it would never go
dry.

We wash the cars (my son did so last night) ...but it rained and now
he's mad....swears he'll never was it again. The water is
hard...mineral water spots are common...with plenty of soap...and hand
dry the spots are rubbed off.

I have a few hoses 100ft long that I move periodically from dry spot
to dry spot all summer long. We have a beautiful lawn...2+ acres of
lush green grass inside the fenced compound...the geese love to mow it
for us.

When the pond / water trough in the poultry pasture gets low...I turn
on the sprinkler nearby all night long....it waters the ducks and
geese plus it fills the water trough. The chickens and guineas need
25% as much/little water as ducks or geese...they're always happy with
whatever amount is there...its always more than they'd ever want or
need.

My wife insists on cooking with potted water. Every 3 months I carry
90 empty 1gallon water bottles to my brother's home in town for
culinary water...we fill them up in an hour or less. I have a stacked
closet with boards and shelf lifts to put 75 bottles on top of the 1st
layer of 15 gallons. Without the lifts between the shelves...the
lower layers of bottles would get squished and leak. After 8 years of
carting cooking water...I have the routine down to perfection

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[Peeps]

My water leaves water deposits on the cars and trucks too, which are a
major pain in the butt to get off if you do not dry the vehicles right
away.I have a good deep well with tasty water tho. It's tapped into an
underground spring and very rarely clouds even during the most rainy
winters. And yah, I too have to carry water to my keet pens, luckily
the adult free ranging Guineas drink froma couple water troughs I have
for them within easy hose distance, plus they drink from the goat and
horse water troughs that luckily all have hoses running to them. I
have to replace the hoses quite frequently due to weather exposure and
being stepped on/damanged by the horses if I don't pick them up every
time I fill troughs, which is another pain and an added expense every
year. But I don't have the time or energy to dig ditches and actually
run real underground water lines to my trough areas yet... lol. Maybe
some day.

[K M Edgar]

Peeps and others,

I've got a couple recent pics to share of my hatches from last week.

There are 17 keets and 1 Game Fowl chick...which at this point looks
like a pullet.

The lone chick is the largest in the group.

Kelly

[Peeps]

*Passes out!!!*

 

WOW! Pics, I am in shock, lol.

 

Nice brooder, come build me a couple of those!