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Says winter decides which system you can run.

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Switching a flock to nipple waterers: how the training goes and what winter does to it

Winter decides which system you can run, and the failure mode is the dangerous part: a frozen nipple looks identical to a working one from three metres away.

Two things that help. Put the reservoir somewhere that stays above freezing rather than heating the line, because a heated bucket is far simpler than heated tubing. And check by actually pressing one every morning in cold weather rather than glancing at it, which takes two seconds and is the only reliable test.

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