Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Tips To Supplement Heated Chicken Waterer Usage

By Ruthie Calderon


Keeping your poultry animals properly hydrated is a given. This is mainly because the poultry animals will be less prone to diseases and highly likely to stay in good condition when they hydrate themselves as necessary. The best way to get the poultry animals hydrated would be to use quality heated chicken waterer.

The said fixture should be easy to use if you are interested in taking care of the poultry. However, the waterers are not the only fixtures you should use to keep the poultry cool. Here are what you can do for the sake of these poultry to keep them cool.

First, you should consider adding electrolytes to the water you are feeding the said animals. There are various electrolyte tablets one can easily buy nowadays and they can be used when the day is too hot, preventing dehydration. The tablets are to be dissolved in a gallon of water to make an electrolyte solution for animals.

Cold water is essential for the said poultry as well. That is why you have to ensure they get enough cold water from day to day. The cold water should be given to them so that they can personally regulate how they keep their body hydrated. The cold water is there to cool the poultry's body temperature down significantly.

Try to install a fan inside the coop as well. You might have to mess up the current structure of your coop this way. However, you should still aim to have a small fan to circulate the air and keep the poultry animals cooler, especially during summer. Just be careful of the electrical wiring. Keep the poultry animals away from these.

The animals should be given shade. The shade you provide the animals can help you make the animals feel cooler. You can use any material to create a shade for the said animals, especially right near their coop. The shade can be a place for their refuge. You can put a small table beside the coop to give the animals shade.

Better limit the interaction you are having with the poultry to a minimum. This should be especially adhered to during summer. When you always interact with them, that will just make them more active, which then generates more heat. You should only check up on the poultry when it is necessary to do so.

Get cold water and spray around the coop. The animals will feel cool air with that. When you use cold air to spray around the coop, you can cause an evaporative cooling. That will then be effective in cooling the animals. It can also be helpful in creating pools of water where animals can wade in during hot weathers.

Do not forget to offer frozen treats too. You can fill up a large container with water and berries. Freeze them overnight. You can then leave out the container the next day for the poultry animals to pick on. Aside from water and berries, you can also add slices of watermelon into the said container. Freezing up these fruits can definitely help the poultry animals keep cool on a hot summer day.




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