Rant: My automatic waterer got clogged right before a heat wave

Hit 95 degrees last Tuesday in Austin and I came out to find my hens panting with no water. The valve on my big plastic waterer had a piece of shell stuck in it. I spent 20 minutes taking it apart and cleaning it with a toothpick. Now I check every single waterer the night before any hot day. Anybody else have a cheap waterer fail at the worst possible time?

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spencer_chen617d ago

Damn, a piece of egg shell? That is some seriously bad luck right when you needed it most. I had a similar thing happen with a cheap gravity waterer where a single pebble got wedged in the float valve and drained the whole thing overnight. Now I run a fine mesh filter over any bucket I fill outside just to catch that junk before it hits the valve.

mary_patel5917d ago

Didn't that happen to a friend of mine with her chicken waterer too, a tiny twig got in there?