The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: northfifeduckling on September 02, 2009, 07:12:46 pm
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I'm considering to install a water butt for the ducks' and soon hens' drinking water. Would that be ok for them? :&>
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As long it was clean I can't see why not?
Ed
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a water butt??? :-[someone p-l-e-e-z-e tell this American what that is! :-\ :o
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A large container usually at the end of a drainpipe to collect rainwater,it has a tap at the bottom.
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Thank you for that explanation, that sounds a LOT more appealing than the words "water butt" implied :dunce: ;D
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;D ;D ;D ;D :&>
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:D ;D :D
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how would you keep the water fresh. are the hens miles away from the tap.
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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 :&>
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water butt...(still funny)... ;D ;)
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you'll get used to it on this forum! We also mean "drunk" when we say pissed (angry is pissed off)! ;D ;D
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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.
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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 ::)
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sorry i ment bacteria. the odd earwig would be treated as a plus.
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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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I just put my plastic wheelbarrow into the chicken run. It's always full of clean rain water and newly drownded beasties and the mud sinks to the bottom (http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Animals/animals-16.gif) (http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Animals/animals-16.gif) (http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Animals/animals-16.gif)
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I also meant germs, Paul. Had I put it up yesterday it would be full now... :&>
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same here. if we had ducks they would love it. sounds bad but we need it its been very dry this summer.
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not here! do you live in Spain, Paul? The ducks have turned every sighting of a worm into a major mud puddle! I thought last year was wet but this beats it - ENOUGH! :&>
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My chickens have learnt to swim ::)
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not here! do you live in Spain, Paul? The ducks have turned every sighting of a worm into a major mud puddle! I thought last year was wet but this beats it - ENOUGH! :&>
Shetland the land of the horizontal rain. but for the last two years we have been very dry and sunny. can't say hot it rarely get above 70 but the long days make up for it 20+ in summer. but winter its dark most of the time.
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;D your name might have been a clever disguise, like mine (I really live in New Zealand, lol)
you've had it better than us then, we had a few nice days in June and July I can only just so remember. Skye had 44 days non stop rain I heard, I so feel for them... :&>
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What I want to know is who killed all those spiders?
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??? ??? ??? :&>
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how would you keep the water fresh. are the hens miles away from the tap.
well, it rains lots here, so no problem topping the thing up with fresh water
make sure it has a lid on though so nothing falls in
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a water butt??? :-[someone p-l-e-e-z-e tell this American what that is! :-\ :o
How many other 'amusing' words can we think of, here are a few for starters:
Butt - a container for water
fag - a cigarette
fanny - an old fashioned ladies name as in 'Fanny Cradock' - the no nonsense cookery expert.
Come on everyone there must be loads more.
My husband (when he worked for a famous American firm) once said, (when presenting in America, to an American audiance)
"We (the English that is) give you a perfectly good language and all you can do is mess it up!"
OMG - My all time favourite. ALUMINIUM Look how it's spelt IT IS NOT A L U M I N U M - it's AlumINIUM
No offence intended, just having a joke - honestly!!!
Oh my all time
favourite has to be
Aluminum.
NOOOOOO
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Jasper carrott once did a thing about australian condoms called sellotape..... and was amused by the look of the shopkeepers in aussieland whan he asked for a roll of sellotape.....I can see them mouthing the words ' A ROLL!!'
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i have a clean stream for my ducks, i also have a very long hose that i leave dripping it forms a puddle for the chickens, it goes a bit black sometimes but i move it about..... clean stream..... muddy pudle..... which do you think the ducks choose?
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;D ;D ;D :&> :&> :&>
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i once stuck a hosepipe in my butt and turned the water on full.......... i wont be doing that again in a hurry, when the hose fell out i got soaked.
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i once stuck a hosepipe in my butt
Were you feeling the need for a total clean out? Hope the water was warm! ;D ;D ;D
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I DONT KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN..... it was a new butt
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You are joking aren't you?
butt is another word for your bottom!!!!!!!
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D you guys quack :&> me up!!!
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What,....... do you mean the bottom of my butt??????????
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;D ;D
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i used to work on a market near a usa airbase in norfolk.... it was a walk in stall.... i had a sign up saying NO FOOD, DRINK or FAGS... I wondered why the yanks used to point at my sign.
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;D ;D ;D