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Hi Steve, Do you put the rope lights in the boxes then? or just in the hen house? I don't mean to be dense, I just am not sure what you mean. Hey, why don't you come on over to the Surviving MInnesota thread, good peeps there, would love to hear your experiences with chickens in our great...

Has anybody tried these snuggle safe microwave heat pad under the bedding in the nesting boxes to keep the eggs from freezing? On another thread a guy mentioned he used them under their waterer to keep the water unfrozen for a few hours.

the wood chips were very warm. I think maybe I had put to many on top of the mat... created insulation, as the temp of the wood chips increased, then the matt increased, then the wood chips increased, ect... no biggy, the eggs only seem to freeze on days where is stays below zero, or close to...

Do you have the same 17 Watt mat I'm using? I'm not sure of the wattage, I just figured they were all the same. What was the ambient temperature outside the box? it was less than 10 degrees How did you measure the temps?? point and shoot thermometer, since then i've learned it reads 10...

@RonP Do you have any straw or wood shavings on top of your heat mat? I bought one the other day, it came, I put it in. Due to the wood shavings, the "ambient temp" around the mat kept rising, therefore the mat rose as well. Pretty soon due to the rise in temp of the wood chips the mat was at...

Did you need to put anything under the heating mat like a reflective blanket so the heat goes up instead of down or all over?

It has been less than 25 degrees here almost all week during the day, single digits to negative digits during the night, I haven't had a frozen egg yet. I work all day so can't gather eggs till about 4:00 pm, so hmmm. Mine are insulated and the hens tend to use the same box. maybe they are just...