Features:

  • 🐓 Comes with installation helpers as well as simple yet effective instructions.
  • 🐓 We suggest one nipple per every 4 chickens / poultry.
  • 🐓 No more hanging your waterer and no more daily water bucket cleaning - Your completed waterer will also be able to be placed directly on the ground for refilling and cleaning.
  • 🐓 Works perfectly for chickens aged 2 weeks and older.
  • 🐓 Turn your cooler, PVC pipe, 55 gallon rain barrel, 5 gallon bucket etc. into a highly efficient chicken waterer.
Great for chicks!!!

This is my second purchase of these nipples. I love them. They have really helped with keeping my chicks water clean. The chicks took to them right away, I just dripped a little water out and stuck their beak in it. No more shavings in the water and now I don't have to fill the water as often. I used 4 nipples in a jar for about 25 chicks. They came with instructions as well as a tool to install them. I have had no problems with leaks as I did when I used the other nipples that hang down. I would recommend this to anyone with chicks and adult chickens.

Work well, easy to install.

these work great and even the little bantam chicks figured them out really fast. I did supplement with other water for awhile but they seem to think this is more fun way to get water. They are a little hard to use with containers that are flimsy, thin but work great with the 5 gallon buckets (we used food grade) and they worked pretty good with plastic jugs but not the best choice. I would buy them again and certainly cheaper than buying a ready made waterer with them. Update ... A month later. 2 of the connections we're leaking where turned into the 5 gallon food safe bucket. We added Teflon tape and seems better. However chickens prefer a more open water so added a 3 gallon galvanized water container too. You will have water spilled from that too. I love my pets but they are messy.

Great product - I would recommend them to anyone

These are great. We did use can waterers that filled up with droppings - all the time. Tried other nipples in the past that drip so they are only allowed outside. These are great for use in the coop where you don't want water dripping all the time. I would recommend them to anyone. The installation tool is excellent, makes install really easy. The key to training your chickens to use them is removing all other water sources. They figured it out in no time once we took all the other water away.

Don't listen to the morons - These are amazing!

I have never seen a product so dogged by negative reviews from stupid people! These are cheap, easy, and fantastic. They don't freeze as readily as vertical nipples and are inherently much more leak resistant than vertical nipples. But you need to be careful as you install them: - On thin-walled plastics I'd use (and have done) a 5/16" drill bit for the hole rather than an 11/32". It will seal tighter. - On thick walled-plastics (PCV or HDPE buckets) definitely use 11/32". I don't have an 11/32" bit so I just drilled 5/16" and screwed them in only 1/2-2/3 of the way. It looks silly, but it's perfectly functional UPDATE unless temperatures are below freezing. They will ice up very quickly in freezing temps if they are not screwed fully into the plastic. I have since bought an 11/32" bit to fix this problem. - NEVER use silicone or Teflon tape with these (or any nipples). If you have a leak you've already done something wrong and employing these things are going to cause MORE leak problems not solve them. - Make sure you have adequate diameter in your material. Flat(ish) walls are your friends. I wouldn't use this on anything smaller than 3" PVC. - MOST IMPORTANT: Do NOT undertighten and do NOT overtighten! Both will cause leaks! Don't bother to use the "installer" tool. Tighten by hand. Just get things threaded and lightly snugged down. Then fill your contained FULL (very important). It should leak, obviously. Keep a rag handy. Now tighten the nipple slowly by hand. Dry the nipple with the rag frequently. Keep alternating tightening and drying while watching for leaks. The proper tightness is the minimum tightness that doesn't leak! It's probably going to be far less than you think. I've made six waterers out of both vertical and horizontal nipples. I've never had a single leak. But I've also never used anything but my fingers to tighten them. Final note, these are not for newborn chicks. The springs in these guys are stiff. Manufacturer recommends chicks be at least two weeks old. I think ours were four weeks old before they really got the hang of them (we started introducing them to horizontal nipples at two weeks). The chicks did learn vertical nipples in just a few minutes on their very first day. Happy chicken watering!

Worked very well for our chickens!

We ordered these for our 6 chickens since they were going though a gallon of water every day in the standard waterer (I think it was leaking and evaporating too!) I drilled the holes into a 5 gallon home improvement bucket w/lid and screwed 2 nipples in with the black tool. Took our chickens about 10 minutes to peck at it and by the next day I wasn't worried about them not figuring it out, they all seemed to get it. It's been a few days and I haven't had to refill the waterer yet :)

Was skeptical but works great

I installed these on a 4 inch thin wall PVC pipe with a flow master toilet float connected to a hose bib. This makes it a true auto water. I have chickens, chicks and ducks to keep watered. The problem is the messy ducks, they dirty any water there able to get to. At fist the chicks were spending a very long time trying to get adequate water from these nipples and the ducks didn't seem to get it at all. This was a big concern in the Arizona desert heat. After the fist day all seem to have mastered the nipples even the ducks. the chicks spend less than a minute each and then there off grazing. The ducks make a lot of noise but seem to be getting adequate hydration as well. And best of all the water is clean and automatic.

These are awesome!! We operate a large pastured poultry farm

These are awesome!! We operate a large pastured poultry farm. Over the years we've tried every kind of drinker there is. The vertical nipples drip. So I was sceptical to try these, but figured it was worth a shot. I'm so glad we did!!!! They're great! They don't leak (unless installed incorrect) and no dirty water trays. I just ordered more and we'll be upgrading all drinkers to these. Order them, you won't be sorry!

INSTALLS EASILY EVEN ON THIN WALL PLASTIC

Chickens instinctively got the hang of the valve operation in less than one minute. No leakage or clogs yet. Attached mine to 20 gal garbage can with lid. No mess and much less frequent water refills. Cheap and versatile. Worried that threads would nead to insert into thicker rigid plastic but thinner flexible plastic containers also work. Use a step-drill to produce clean hole in thin material. Going to drill small hole in lid so flag on dowel can be loosely inserted through and attached to styrofoam float in the tank. This will allow visual inspection of the water level from across the yard. Will eventually run narrow water tubing to the henhouse and attach drip refiller or float valve to keep tank always topped up. 20 gal should have enough thermal mass not to freeze in our winter months.

I have used bottom mount nipples to make 5 gallon waterers with and got rid of them all because the chickens waste so much water and make huge mess with those

Forget about watering everyday and poop in the waterer. I installed 10 of these in a 20 gallon food barrel for 30 layers and it can last over 1 week with only 5 gallons in it and no poop or mess to clean up. I have used bottom mount nipples to make 5 gallon waterers with and got rid of them all because the chickens waste so much water and make huge mess with those. With these nipples I have yet to see one spilled drop and have been using them for a month, love them and I'm buying more to make another 20 gallon waterer.

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