My 3 weeks old chicks figured out how to get water from the nipple but there is a lot of spilled water after they drink. Is that normal?
58743
Hi Carlos - if the puddle is right under the nipples that's normal. If there's a lot of standing water all around u should probably check 4 leaks n the whole system.
58744
We used ours with full grown chickens and really did not notice any large amount of water left on the ground. We haven't tried it on any chicks yet.
58745
These nipples do let more water go with each peck, I use these nipples with my birds on pasture where excess water is no big deal. I use a similar style in the brooder that releases less water.
58746
Sorry. I can't help you. The nipples I purchased were quickly abandoned by both the chicks and me because they didn't work as advertised.
58747
hmm could be that as they get bigger more of it will end up in their mouths and less of it on the ground. I don't think I had mine set up until they were a few months old ;) I still see some drippage after mine drink. Not a ton, but some.
22225
Yes. Mine leaks horribly! Even after she drinks out of it and I relieve the pressure. The milk always creeps up the straw. I sent the company an email about it and am awaiting a response.
318380
I have tried to use these as bottles once and the nipple and nipple ring ''fit" but since you are not able to use the blue little pipe and the tan color insert to the pipe the milk spills out (sorry i do not know their exact names). Hope this info helps.
343297
Maybe the juice is too concentrated. Try thiner liquids or you can enlarge the nipple carefully with a knife.
2060332
Our baby did not have an issue with latching, the problem was with the Chicco bottles. He got lazy from those bottles because he did not have to suck hard to get the formula/breast milk, so he did not want to nurse. Once we switched the the Medela nipple, that issue went away. They have to build up a vacuum in order to get the milk to flow through the nipple, mimicking the nursing process. They are expensive, but well worth it.
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I've had no problems with nipple actually leaking. The nipples drip. There will be slight leaking if the pipe or bucket is jostled.
570803
My baby is only 5 mos so we are doing a nuk brand sippy soon. I think Nuby makes a sippy tho with a nipple like top.
113257
Our 2 week old girl tends to pee while we are changing her & the urine ends up running up her back soaking her & her onesie if she's wearing one, so we have additional laundry anyway (or have to put down a towel or some sort of liner) and have to give her another bath. Kinda defeats the purpose of the product - wish it was more of an incline to prevent this from happening. Has anyone else experienced this?
1058506
You have to hold it for like 15-20 seconds. Kind of annoying but it will come out. Try putting it in a bottle or if nursing put it on your nipple (that's what I did).
863146
I really don't think the age will matter at all. I worried about the same thing, since my birds were 2-ish months old when I switched over to nipple feeding them through an automatic waterer. They caught on just fine, but I used a rubber band to jerry-rig the valves open. The water dripped out continuously, and pretty soon (within 5-10 minutes) they figured out how to knock it with their beaks to drink from it. I did this to a couple more nipples and then they just figured it out from there. Took maybe 15 minutes total and they were trained. No problems whatsoever.
2062568
Yes, it has 3 separate pieces so it gets a little annoying. But I do think it works really well at slow-drip versus other bottle nipples making it closer to a breast feeding experience.
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Maybe, if your hens are smart enough. My 6 girls never figured it out. The kids gave them "lessons" repeatedly. We dripped it into a pan, they drank out of the pan. we bumped their beaks to the nipple, and they resisted. We tried teaching the smartest hen first. She didn't learn either. My hens run around outside, too. That could be the problem.
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Conservative! They still have to work at it to get the milk to come out. It mimics the breast still, but nothing like when we let down, it will allow the child to get more milk at their pace. I stayed with the advised 3+ months before introducing it since they seem to be better "suckers" and can handle a faster flow. If the child can't work the stage 1 nipple then they may still have problems with the stage 2.
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I put Dr Brown preemie nipples on mine and they were still aweful. It makes it very difficult to get formula with out air in it as the formula doesn't fill the nipple until the child actually sucks. Thus they suck in air and then formula. This is with every swallow. Mine were super fussy and gassy afterwards.
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When you squeeze the nipple you can see if there are small holes or if you fill up the bottle and squeeze hard enough to see how strong the flow is . The small flow will give you a couple of very thin spray. Heavy flow will be almost like from sippy cup. My 11 month old refused to use heavy flow so we continue with the original small I guess it wasn't that hard for him.
1000413
It's actually kind of hard, that's why I don't like the packaging. I don't put it in the bottle because I can't see the volume or how many drops I've put in. If you turn the bottle upside down and wait a bit, a drop should come out. I personally just flip it over and touch it to my baby's bottle nipple to make the drop come out, but I'm not sure if that's advocated.
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I didn't think so but I also didnt use it that often. The nipple itself was so long it seemed to almost choke my son. To me it wasn't much like the breast other than the sucking motion to get the milk out. Once he would suck so much winks get into the nipple it would just pour out.