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Gale, you'll probably need a home improvement store (lowe's, home depot) or hardware store....

Hubby also says just get a cheap thrift store lamp for parts, might be cheaper...

My husband says, you need a lamp socket, a short peice of 3/8" all thread, 2 3/8" nuts, and a short peice of lamp cord, all available in the lamp parts section of home depot, etc. Does not need to be weather proof. Also 2 3/8" washers. Put a washer and a nut on either side of the tin, then...

This is our 2nd winter and works great! My hubby's in the elctrica; biz and it's very safe. We like to build things oursleves, and couldn't find anything last winter, except heated water bowls for dogs (no cover to keep it clean). I saw something lats week at a feed place for $50., and talk...

I meant that in 0 far. degrees temp, my water didn't freeze....

And it kept the water liquid down to 0 degrees...

One real advantage I've seen with the water heater is that the water stays much cleaner. You only have the trough exposed, and I just scrub it out once a week and re-fill. My hens would get the water filthy from dust baths and digging around...

We have an extension cord too running to the coop for the winter. In the spring it will come out...

I have 3 hens and use a 1 gallon plastic waterer. We put 2 old fuzzy hats over the dome, helps keep it warmer...

jmagill, interesting observations! I guess it makes sense that if you were cold, you'd want water that's a little warmer, not colder...

I think the extra insulation around the water dome really helps too...

We leveled a concrete 12" square stepping stone as a base for ours. Hasn't fallen over so far...

Our plastic waterer has been fine on top, using a 65 watt. bulb, but it's cold here! 17 tonite... The 2 hats on top help too...

My waterer is a standard plastic 1 gallon dome with the red trough that twists on

I should add too- my hubby's brilliant idea WE PUT 2 FUZZY SKI HATS OVER THE WATERER'S "DOME"! He got them cheap at a thrift store. It adds insulation to the thin plastic...

It's been working great for us! My husband decided to hard wire a weather proof switch out side the coop, at standing level (so we did'n't have to get real low on bad weather) , works well for the heat lamp too. He also drilled a small hole in the side of the cookie tin, to make sure the light...

The wiring is either inside, or will be under the water and flush with the wall... or you could run inside pipe, etc...

We used a kiddie pool for our ducks years ago, just emptied it every week. They loved it! In the winter we used a black, heavy construction mixing pan for concrete. Filled it every day, worked great...

No, we got the items at re-store, the used building supply place for habitat for humanity...

We used both parts, so the light is enclosed. We drilled a 3/8" hole in the side of the bottom part of the tin, and then put a 3/8" rod that screws into the bottom of a brass lamp socket. Then we secured it with a 3/8" fender washer and lock nut on either side of of the hole. Ran a lamp cord...