Chicken Water Dispenser Easy Print

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This is a Chicken Waterer. Poultry fountain. I designed this to be heavy duty enough to last. The water area is the right size for brooder chicks from hatch to a few months old. Small enough to fit in a box or pen without taking up a lot of room. I designed this to be something like one of these style chicken fountains: https://amzn.to/2wv6EJ5 but I wanted something a little less flimsy, and something that if i needed another one I can just print one. I Tried to design this so that it would be hard for a chick to drown in, but please watch your chicks they can fall asleep with their face in the water and drown in just about any water dish. I also wanted it to be somewhat hard for them to poop in, the wider jar and taller jars help keep them off the waterer. It is designed to work with a standard mouth canning jar mason jar. I am actually using an old recycled pasta jar like this that I rinsed out and reused: https://amzn.to/39nsTOc most of these sauce jars just Atlas Mason Craft brand jars, when you remove the label they even have the Atlas logos, and have a standard canning thread the work great because they are a little fatter than some other jars. You can also use any common regular mouth ball canning jar like this: https://amzn.to/2UDxmqP I even used an old Nate's fishing bait jar from some old prawns, just about any jar with a regular sized mouth should work, jam jars, pickle jars whatever you got laying around. I am supporting 6 chicks on this, I clean and fill it twice a day. I would guess this should be good for around 10 chicks, and if kept clean should water them for couple days. Should be top rack dishwasher safe. ****NOTE: YOU MAY HAVE TO SCALE THIS UP JUST A TAD IN YOUR SLICER, SEE PRINTING NOTES*** 6/22/20 - Updated design to removed lower fill channel, it was causing a small siphon that would pull dirty water back into the reservoir jar. Chicken Water 6.stl is the latest version. Related Keywords: Chick, Fount, Eggs, Incubation, Incubator, Brooder, Chicken, Hatching, Hens, Pullets, Rooster, Cockerel, Water Dish.