How do you keep your nipples from freezing?

[SavageDestiny]

I am SO GLAD I'm not the only one stuck in the sixth grade here, apparently. Couldn't help but giggle at the title!

 

[petrel]

I am working on a watering nipple system too. The wintertime does seem problematic. The best I have come up with is the installation of a brewer's circulating pump, return lines, and a heat source in the water source. That way warm water is always circulating through the lines, keeping (hopefully) everything warm enough to prevent freezing.

 

[roseyred]

.......lol there's is a 15 year old perv kid in me and he just blushed and made his hands like he was squishing boobs and said "I can warm them up"

 

[BayBay Peepers]

I could not get through this with a straight face. I nearly fell off my chair

 

[Folly's place]

Thanks to everyone for the responses; I did restrain myself, but it was hard. Frozen nipples??? Too funny! Mary

 

[nathan949374]

What about useing a fish tank water heater in the bucket?

 

[suebee]

I'll join the 6th Grade Club....Snort, snicker....

 

[daddyman]

I have been laughing and snorting as I read this thread to my wife.

She has been shaking her head slowly and wondering how we have survived so long as a species.

(If loving boobies is wrong, then I don't want to be right.)

Oh, and the heater idea was great. I will have to try that this winter.

 

[suebee]

Ask this question again in January and I'll let you know. "snort"

 

[nfluencial]

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That's what I was thinking. I have a 5 gallon bucket gravity fed down to 1 1/4" pipe with two lines for watering. One line is inside the coop with the other running down below the coop for when the gals are outside. I know the bucket will stay warm and I can wrap the bucket and the lines, the outside nipples will be my biggest problem. I am comtemplating making a recirculation system with a submersible pond pump and an aquarium heater. If a 10 gallon heater will work in a 5 gallon bucket system outside, I should be good. If your bucket just has nipple screwed to the bottom of it, I am almost certain that your fish tank heater will be more than adequate.