Black barrels for chickens water

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I recently bought some black plastic 55 gallon barrels for gravity feed water barrels. Are they ok for watering chickens? They are very clean and I don't smell anything. I just heard that black barrel's are not usually used for food safe containers.
Looking forward to clean water for these nasty chickens soon!
 
NCGUY said:
I recently bought some black plastic 55 gallon barrels for gravity feed water barrels. Are they ok for watering chickens? They are very clean and I don't smell anything. I just heard that black barrel's are not usually used for food safe containers.
Looking forward to clean water for these nasty chickens soon!
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I personally would use them if you have rinsed and cleaned them well, and you don’t smell anything. Plastic is not usually bad about absorbing and holding onto stuff, so if you can’t smell it, I would think it would be fine. But this is just my opinion.
 
Could be pickle barrels. They are black.
 
I water my pets from a black barrel. No issues
 
Darkhorse said:
try to keep out of the sun as black absorbs heat and nobody wants to drink hot water.
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Moving into the winter this could be beneficial to keep his chickens water from freezing. Maybe...
 
A good chunk of the black barrels around NC close Mt Olive are pickle barrels from India. They grow the gherkins there as they still had the labels. The ones I got had a whitish plastic (HDPE?) liner on the inside that was molded as part of the back shell...
 
I have been using one for 3 years as part of our chicken watering system and see no ill effects on the birds. I feed it from the rood runoff of chicken house. Then it goes to a plastic feed trough with auto float that keeps it full


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Thanks for the replies. One thing mentioned is algae/mold. I did some reading and I've learned an ounce per gallon of apple cider vinegar solves that issue.
 
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