How much do chickens drink?
My hens definitely drink more than they eat. I have to fill the 2 gallon waterer up every other day and the feeder about twice per week. I have 6 hens, my Father has 6 hens and he has had the same experience. The bottom line from my experience is check them everyday and make sure they have clean water and food to hold them over until you next encounter. Chicken drink about 7 ounces/day/ for an average size hen. When I did the Google search it came back with an answer of 200ml of water per day per average sized hybrid hen. I then had to do a Google search to look up a calculator that converts milliliters to ounces. I never seemed to get my hands wrapped around the metric system as it relates to volume. I attended high school in the late 70’s and college in the early 80’s and refused to embrace the metric system except for metric wrenches. I was forced to learn about metric wrenches because I rode motocross motorcycles in my youth and they were Japanese, therefore metric wrenches had to
