WATRING WISDOM 4
Static flow rates are meanings
Key principle:
You can’t use an invalid concept to create drinker standards.
Birds drink by pecking intermittently on the side of the trigger pin (dynamic flow), so why set a standard based upon lifting and holding a trigger pin straight up (static flow) for one minute. This make no sense! Unfortunately evaluate drinkers even today.
Drinkers should be designed to work on harmony with the way birds drink—intermittent pecking (fig. 1).
Holding the drinker trigger pin up (“static flow”) does not replicate the way bird really drink (Fig. 2).
Key Directive: Don’t use “static flow rate” to evaluate a drinker’s merit or to manage a drinker line. Learn about best watering management practices and much more at Ziggity’s Poultry Watering U website.
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