Water is usually provided by nipple drinkers which allow ducks only to drink.

Growing and finishing pigs may waste up to 60% of the water from a nipple drinker.

Improvements are occurring in watering systems- bowls and nipple drinkers.

Due to their design, nipple drinker lines will contain large amounts of water even if they have been drunk dry by the birds.

Iron was another prevalent problem with the family's water supply, which plays havoc with the nipple drinkers in the poultry facilities.

Inside the house much of the equipment used in broiler production (automatic feeders, nipple drinkers, etc.) is used.

However, our results show that not only the water source itself but also the actual nipple drinker in weaner pens can each occasionally be highly contaminated.

Because dry bedding helps maintain flock health, most growout houses have enclosed watering systems ("nipple drinkers") which reduce spillage.

Nipple drinkers typically cause water wastage of 40 per cent, increasing the cost of manure hauling by 60 cents per pig.

LUBING nipple drinkers and automatic drinkers for day old chicks are of robust, precision design and are not to faults.

Excess water spillage through leaking bowls and poorly maintained nipple drinkers allows bacteria to flourish, encourages fly problems, increases barn humidity and causes stress if pens become very damp.

The research, by Oxford University scientists, concluded that after offering a number of different water supplies to ducks including a trough, pond, shower and nipple drinker, the birds favoured standing under a shower.

A sample of water was collected from a tap close to the weaner drinkers or, in the absence of a tap, by unscrewing the nipple drinker and sampling from the pipe immediately before the drinker.