The best drinking water for your chickens

Fresh drinking water of good quality is vital for chickens. Chickens drink a lot, this can be as much as 250 ml per day. So it is important that clean water is always available. Clear water is not necessarily clean drinking water, as bacteria cannot be seen with the naked eye. Because you are not always aware of this, it is therefore good to regularly take a water sample from the drinking nipple and test your drinking water.

Common biofilm problems in drinking water thanks to biofilm

With drinking water for chickens and other poultry, there are a number of problems that occur regularly. As biofilm gets into the pipe, the drinking nipple slowly slips shut and creates pathogens in the drinking water. Biofilm is a slimy deposit of bacteria, fungi and nutrients. This builds up in pipes and settles here. Flushing pipes makes little sense; often this only displaces the problem. Loose bacteria and fungi end up in the drinking water, and this can make the animal sick. Clogging of pipes or nipple tubes by this slimy layer can also occur. The surfaces thus hold even more dirt, and this affects the poultry.

Solution for clean drinking water

To remove biofilm, these microorganisms (e.g., bacteria, fungi, yeasts) must be eliminated. Elimination is done by adding a disinfectant to the water. However, conventional disinfectants are harmful to you, your animals and the environment. At Watter, we disinfect sustainably with an agent that is friendly to humans, animals and the environment. And because you produce the agent on site with our system from water, salt and electricity, operational costs are very low!

What benefits does clean drinking water have for me?

Clean drinking water through the Watter system brings many benefits. We list a few:

• The health of the chickens goes up, resulting in less disease costs and medication.
• Clean drinking water promotes food intake.
• The use of chemicals is reduced, this is good for the environment.
• Low operating costs, only water, salt and electricity.
• Thanks to automatic dosing, no more lugging jerry cans around.

Do you also want the best for your chickens (or other poultry) and like to maintain the quality of your drinking water? Good drinking water is the first necessity of life for both humans and animals. Contact Watter now about the possibilities.