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No luck. Even with heat tape to keep it at just above freezing and a de-icer in the bucket (again... never making the water warm, just keeping it slightly above freezing), the nipples continued to freeze up. We insulated the PVC, but even with that and the heat tape, the water in it froze when...

We made something similar, but with the first freeze this winter, even with heat tape around the PVC and a birdbath de-icer in the bucket, our water froze in the pipe. The nipples froze and the PVC cracked. :-( AND it was only 20*F - we get much colder as the winter goes on. We replaced the PVC...

We are using a nipple watering system. 5 gallon bucket, raised on a platform on the outside of our coop with PVC with nipples running one line into the coop and one line into the run. It's been a great system for us thus far, but lately, the nipples are freezing up, even when we are barely...

I've spent a lot of time reading through posts on breed and gender, so thanks in advance for all the GREAT information around here! Now I'll just trying throwing this out there... This is the younger 1/2 of my flock. They are quite the motley little crew! I'm not 100% sure the breeds were...