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| maguiren |
Posted - May 17 2011 : 12:06:37 PM
Does anyone use anything other than the plastic or galvanized round waterers? Our galvanized one has a pinhole leak in the bottom and gets rusty even though I religously change-out the water everyday. I hate to invest in a new one, and just wondered if there was any creative alternatives.
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| oldbittyhen |
Posted - May 17 2011 : 6:37:12 PM
Nancy, yes it will stand up to heat, lol, I live in the high desert, in Southern California, we can get up to 120 degrees in the summer, and below 0 in the winter, so it has always worked well for me.
Kristen, if you set the waters up on a platform ( 2 to 3 ins high), such as a clay pot saucer upside down, they won't scratch dirt and other things into the water. I make them out of scrap wood and hardware cloth also, that way you don't get muck build up under neath and the air can get to the dampness...
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - May 17 2011 : 3:42:25 PM
I use whatever I can find. I have some real heavy black rubber water trough bowl like things that I use for the chickens. And I have an old metal bowl in one of the coops. I used to use the metal waterers but they get too slimey dirty. And they would get dirt and shavings all in the rim. So I just use bowls up on blocks or bricks.
Kris
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| maguiren |
Posted - May 17 2011 : 3:07:04 PM
thank you, oldbittyhen, for your advise. Do you know if it will stand up to heat?
Live everyday to the fullest because no one is
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"my sister", Jeanne O'Herien |
| oldbittyhen |
Posted - May 17 2011 : 1:04:33 PM
I have always used the galvanized waters and feeders, they way out last the plastic. As far as small holes, use aquarium leak sealer, it is non-toxic, and will hold for yrs,use a fine sandpaper to clean the area of the hole and to ruff it up abit, makes the sealer stick better, plug the hole with a dab, then wipe with your finger out from the dab about a 1/2 in.
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