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Show PROVIDE WATER FOR CHICKS Inverted Quart Bottle, Supported With Wire and Mouth Placed in Pan Is Satisfactory. I lttle chicks as well as bijj, should at all times have access to plenty of good fresh water, says one writer. Where it is placed before them in a pan the old hen is apt to step on it and spill all the water. Then, too, the chicks will soon either drink it out or the sun will make it dry. The plan that I have found satisfactory satis-factory is not original with me, but 1 have used it a good many years with success. It consists in attaching two strips of tin or wire to the coop in such a way as to support a quart bottle bot-tle upside down with the mouth of the bottle resting inside the pan and about a half-inch from the bottom. Supported in this way the bottle is easily removed for fillinjf. When filled and placed in position the water will feed down only as fast as the water in the pan is taken out. This makes a sort of fountain, and in the summer time the water will be kept fairly cool if the bottle is kept in the shade. |