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northfifeduckling

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water butt for drinking water ?
« on: September 02, 2009, 07:12:46 pm »
I'm considering to install a water butt for the ducks' and soon hens' drinking water. Would that be ok for them? :&>

Eagledance

  • Joined May 2009
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Re: water butt for drinking water ?
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2009, 07:16:15 pm »
As long it was clean I can't see why not?

Ed
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cameldairy

  • Joined Aug 2009
  • Cairo, GA U.S.A.
  • South Georgia, U.S.A.
Re: water butt for drinking water ?
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2009, 07:30:49 pm »
 a water butt??? :-[someone p-l-e-e-z-e tell this American what that is! :-\ :o
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gavo

  • Joined Aug 2008
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Re: water butt for drinking water ?
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2009, 07:34:33 pm »
A large container usually at the end of a drainpipe to collect rainwater,it has a tap at the bottom.

cameldairy

  • Joined Aug 2009
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  • South Georgia, U.S.A.
Re: water butt for drinking water ?
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2009, 07:54:59 pm »
 Thank you for that explanation, that sounds a LOT more appealing than the words "water butt" implied  :dunce: ;D
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northfifeduckling

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Re: water butt for drinking water ?
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2009, 08:10:41 pm »
 ;D ;D ;D ;D :&>

MiriMaran

  • Joined Feb 2009
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Re: water butt for drinking water ?
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2009, 08:16:54 pm »
 :D ;D :D

shetlandpaul

  • Joined Oct 2008
Re: water butt for drinking water ?
« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2009, 08:31:48 pm »
how would you keep the water fresh. are the hens miles away from the tap.

northfifeduckling

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Re: water butt for drinking water ?
« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2009, 08:51:13 pm »
It's carrying lots of watering cans every morning to clean and refill all the bowls and pools, Paul...I need to go away for a couple of weeks and my OH broke his shoulder recently, so I'm trying to reduce the workload. Maybe we can at least use it for cleaning the bowls...and the guttering broke there, so a "butt" would fit naturally, lol  :&>

cameldairy

  • Joined Aug 2009
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Re: water butt for drinking water ?
« Reply #9 on: September 02, 2009, 08:57:24 pm »
water butt...(still funny)... ;D ;)
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northfifeduckling

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Re: water butt for drinking water ?
« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2009, 09:49:26 pm »
you'll get used to it on this forum! We also mean "drunk" when we say pissed (angry is pissed off)!  ;D ;D

shetlandpaul

  • Joined Oct 2008
Re: water butt for drinking water ?
« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2009, 10:03:25 pm »
It's carrying lots of watering cans every morning to clean and refill all the bowls and pools, Paul...I need to go away for a couple of weeks and my OH broke his shoulder recently, so I'm trying to reduce the workload. Maybe we can at least use it for cleaning the bowls...and the guttering broke there, so a "butt" would fit naturally, lol  :&>

a friend uses very large white bulk liquid carriers that have had a good clean out for his cows. we just use the hose. i will get round to digging a trentch and putting in a blue pipe in one day. but yes it does get painful after a while . the mains version of animal drinkers with a ballcock would save the carrying but it costs. i would be bothered that a bug could get in. its coming off the roof so its bound to get birds poo in it.

northfifeduckling

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Re: water butt for drinking water ?
« Reply #12 on: September 02, 2009, 10:11:48 pm »
thought of fitting a hose through the larder window, but it would be major operation
the ducks must eat thousands of bugs a day, as they prefer to drink from the puddles (where they pood earlier), can't clean those for them  ::)

shetlandpaul

  • Joined Oct 2008
Re: water butt for drinking water ?
« Reply #13 on: September 03, 2009, 09:08:12 am »
sorry i ment bacteria. the odd earwig would be treated as a plus.

shrekfeet

  • Joined Sep 2008
Re: water butt for drinking water ?
« Reply #14 on: September 03, 2009, 11:48:15 am »
put a layer of charcoal about six inches deep at the bottom of the butt, cover with pea shingle or similar and then fill with water. This should filter and create a natural purification system. Not killing all germs but certainly helping. As you say, they eat s**t in the wild so what's the difference?

 

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