Breeding ducks necessarily accompanied by the creation of equipment for ducklings, including drinking troughs. The most common type of drinking trough is a suitable size container, such as a bucket or bowl. But along with simplicity, this design has several disadvantages - it is easy to overturn, and it quickly becomes dirty from contact with ducklings. The best solution would be to create an auto drinker with sizes that will correspond to the age of ducklings.
Nippelny drinking bowl
Practicality and convenience nipple drinkers allowed them to easily replace other species. The water in this system is always clean. It is also important that it is impossible to splash it out, which means that it is not necessary to remove dirt and wash the drinkers. Apply them both in large farms and in private farmsteads.
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The main element of such a system is a nipple, which consists of a valve and a stem in a plastic housing. To get the water the bird just press the rod. Nipples are mounted in PVC pipe, which is connected to the water supply system or tank with a hose. 
Materials
For the manufacture of drinkers need the following tools:
- drill screwdriver;
- tap;
- building hair dryer;
- PVC pipe shears
- a piece of PVC pipe with a diameter of 25 mm or another;
- nipples 1800 or 3600;
- wood drill with a diameter of 8 mm with centering;
- tank;
- hose;
- tee;
- 2 used syringes;
- brackets;
- drift eliminators.
NipplesInstruction
System preparation:
- Take a piece of PVC pipe with a size corresponding to the population (1 drinking bowl for 8-10 ducklings with a distance between nipples - 30 cm).
- Mark the marks under the nipples with a marker and tape measure.
- Drill holes.
- Cut the thread into 10 mm.
- Trim the syringes from the needle mounting side.
- Remove the pin from one syringe.
- Preheat the pipe with a building dryer and solder the syringe with a pin on one side and the syringe without a pin on the other side.
- Screw the nipples.
- Seal the joints with a fum-tape.
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Build the system:
- In order to connect the collected drinker to the tank, it is necessary to connect a hose with a tee inserted into the syringe without a pin. The tee is connected to the tank and the crane is installed.
- On the nipple install drift eliminators.
- Attach to the wall with brackets at a height of 10-15 cm above the floor for ducklings or 20 cm for young.
The use of nipple drinkers for large livestock can reduce water consumption by 20-30% compared with other systems.
From plastic bottle
Plastic bottle is a very common design, materials for which is always at hand. The scientific name of the model is a vacuum drinker. The liquid in this case flows from the bottle into the pan under the action of atmospheric pressure.
Important! The basic rule for placement of drinking bowls: when drinking, the bird should slightly pull the neck. The angle between the head and the system for the weekly chick should be equal to 60 degrees, for the monthly - 75-80 degrees.
Materials
A simple design of a plastic bottle consists of:
- bottles;
- pallet.
Plastic Bottles To fix the structure still, you can use a clamp for mounting on a wall or other vertical structure.Instruction
To create such a drinker you will need to perform the following steps:
- At a height of 15 cm from the base in the bottle make a hole.
- The hole is sealed with tape, water is collected in the bottle, the adhesive tape is peeled off after the bottle is installed in the system.
- Under the bottle, located neck down, set the pallet.
- Some water will flow into the pan as the birds drink.
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An even simpler version of this design is a 5-liter plastic bottle with three openings at a height of 5 cm from the bottom.
- Pour water into the bottle and close it with a lid.
- Set in the pan.
- Water flows into the pan to the level of the holes.
- The tray will be filled with liquid from the bottle as the birds drink the one that is in the tray.
Plastic Bottle Drinker LayoutFrom sewer pipe
Drinking water from a PVC pipe or polypropylene pipe of large diameter is convenient for young and large ducks so that when drinking a duck it immerses its head in water, thereby achieving cooling of the body in hot weather.
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Materials
For the manufacture will need the following tools:
- polypropylene cutter;
- drill;
- jigsaw.
- a piece of pipe with a diameter of 110 or 200 mm;
- hose clamps;
- stubs
Hose clampsInstruction
Build the system:
- Rectangular holes of arbitrary size 60 x 80 mm, 70 x 70 mm, 80 x 80 mm are cut out in the pipe.
- At the end of the pipe plugs are installed.
- The pipe is mounted on the wall.
- Water is poured into the pipe.
Tips for making
Ducks, unlike non-waterfowl, consume a lot of water, so it is often necessary to check the presence of water in the system. Water consumption rate per 1 duck according to age:
- 1-55 days - 0.52 l;
- 56-180 days - 0.85 l;
- adult duck - 0.9 l.
This norm does not include water that a duck needs for swimming.
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All drinking bowls are installed so that the birds do not pollute not only them, but also food. The distance between the water source and the feed for ducks should be at least 1.8 m. This is due to the fact that ducks like to spray water, scatter food during feeding, which creates confusion and dirt. 
Requirements for drinkers:
- the size of the structure must take into account the number of ducks;
- adult bird nipples should have a flow rate of up to 100 ml per minute;
- if the drinker is a container with water, then it should be inconvenient for the duck to climb into it for the purpose of swimming, but such that the bird can dip its head into it;
- it should be easy to clean and disinfect.
Did you know? The duck has unique abilities in regulating the process of incubating its eggs. Despite the fact that the difference between the first and the last egg laid in the laying can be two weeks, the ducklings will hatch at the same time.
It is not difficult and not too expensive to make any construction of the poker from a financial point of view. For daily use, you can make a drinker from both improvised and specialized materials. The main thing is to provide pets with sufficient amount of clean water.
