How to raise Backyard Chickens: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Keeping a plastic chicken waterer clean in summer

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Re: [CHICKENS-101] Keeping a plastic chicken waterer clean in summer

If it is mainly green on the inside, fill it with water and add about half a cup of bleach. Let it sit for a few hours and it will kill all the algae. If the algae is on the outside, you could put the whole thing in a five gallon bucket with bleach water. Of course, it helps to have another waterer to use while the dirty one is soaking. I actually have three which I alternate. I need them in the winter, when one is sure to be frozen.

Kathy

In a message dated 6/26/2011 8:53:43 P.M. Central Daylight Time, morningstarlearning@gmail.com writes:

Hi All,

I have a plastic chicken waterer that seems to work pretty well in spring and fall, but in summer I have a hard time keeping green then blackish algae from growing on it. I've tried vinegar, but I'm not sure the chickens like that in their water. So I stopped. If I go back to vinegar should I use white or apple cider?

Granted, I CAN scrub it every three days, but my kids are supposed to do the chicken water job and though I ask them to wash it thoroughly, and they try, they never get all the places the algae grows. And then I find it all overgrown.

Do they make a metal automatic chicken waterer? Would this work better than plastic?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks so much!

Truly,

Britta in WI

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