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Quote: If you can figure out how to do it, I don't know why it wouldn't work. I'm not sure how you would go about bolting one to the bottom of the waterer, though.

How about the metal lid from an oil drum or from a 5 gal. bucket? Put that next to the feed pan, then if you want something to keep the metal away from the shavings you can put some type of plastic or ruber on the bottom of that The metal would not be apt to catch fire. I'm a fan of "adaptive...

Quote: OK i have another question in addition to the one above. I bought a weatherproof socket but it just has the rubber socket w/ 2 wires coming out of it. So I can't figure out how to attach it to the side of the tin. So do I need to get a different socket? Does it need to be weatherproof...

Quote: I don't know... I think it depends on the size cookie tin you use and the size bulb. Have you seen the heaters they sell at the feed stores? It is bigger and looks like an inverted metal feed pan or something. I would thing you could use just about anything like that to make one of...

I used my last night in my pen of new seramas. I have a very low watt bulb in there. The seramas wasted no time in perching on top to warm their feet.

Here's the instructions I posted a few pages back. Quote:

How low does your temp get down there? I don't think you would need a very big bulb, even with it outside. Wind would make some difference if you have much. 25 w ought to be more than enough I would think. Start small and see if that keeps it thawed, and if not move up a little. It was -10...

I just finished making 3 cookie tin water heaters. Once I got started it was SO easy! Material needed: 3 Christmas cookie tins (Cheap!) 3 Bottle lamp kits ($4-$5 at Wal-Mart) 3 skinny bulbs-I used 25 watt chandalier bulbs Instructions-Leave cookies lying around so kids and hubby eats them...

Quote: You can see it from the kitchen? Is it outside? If it is, then I am certainly impressed. I have a one gallon heated bowl that freezes up around the rim when the temp dips below 10. I bought 3 little one quart heated bowls like the big one, but they all 3 froze up completely, and...

Well, back to the cookies. I got tired of eating cookies. I still have some left. I got tired of dumping ice out of bowls every morning. I found 3 little heated "pet dishes" that hold about 1 quart of water. I bought all 3. Guess what!: They don't work. I put them in 3 small pens in the...

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............still eating cookies.

Averytds-Thanks for the picture. Yours looks like a good set up, and I like the bucket with the drink cups attached. The only thing I would change is I would set the tin on a short cement block or something, so that the part that gets warm (the tin) doesn't come in direct contact with the hay...

Quote: Boy, I don't know if that would work or not. I know here in Kansas it wouldn't. The wind blows so much it would suck the heat right out of it, the water would freeze for sure. I don't know how cold it gets there, or if the little waterer would have any protection or not. Is there a...

I'll let you guys know how my cookie tin water heaters turn out.....eventually....but right now I've got a BUNCH of cookies to eat first!