So my rats are producing great now and I have not had any issues for a while now. The only thing that continues to annoy me is that once I wean my pups from the mother and move them to one of my grow out tubs, it seems like they just can't figure out how to drink from the water nipple . So every time I have new pups I'm having to put a water dish in with them until they are fed off. It's quite annoying considering I took the time to setup a nice auto water system. If I don't put a water dish in, within a few days they are on the verge of death with the sunken eyes and wobbling around so of course I resort to a water dish again and luckily I have not lost any yet because as soon as I dip their nose in it they drink like crazy and within a day they are back to normal. But this defeats the purpose of the auto feeder and is actually quite time consuming because they need it refilled a couple times daily.

Does anyone else have this issue? Have you found a way to teach them to drink from the nipple?