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In the spirit of Christmas, in light of the ever-expanding "recession" we are in, I give you this: 10 dollars worth of garage sale stuff. It works awesome. This has been run down to -2F with zero freezing. Flock might take a few days to figure it out. Water Run could easily reach 20 feet...

Yes, its an endless loop, but only a few square inches of water are exposed to the elements, this keeps the heating costs down to pennies per day. I reposted it here, with more pictures and notes. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=5313826#p5313826

In the spirit of Christmas, in light of the ever-expanding "recession" we are in, I give you this: 10 dollars worth of garage sale stuff. It works awesome. This has been run down to -2F with zero freezing. Flock might take a few days to figure it out. Water Run could easily reach 20 feet...

This is my setup, zero freezing at -2F with the smallest (150 watt) heater I could find. The heater at 14F is only on ~20 percent of the time, or ~30 watts (educated guess). The tank holds about 8 gallons before overflow. The rest of the pages are here http://scott-alcock.blogspot.com/

In the spirit of Christmas, in light of the ever-expanding "recession" we are in, I give you this: 10 dollars worth of garage sale stuff it works awesome. The rest of the pages are here http://scott-alcock.blogspot.com/

They were not house flies (that I could tell), more like small gnats. You have to look under the feathers, especially around the neck (where the bird can't defend itself). The sound of the birds told me something was up. It was worse than "we are hungry", much more frantic. These are the same...

Hached 36, kept 15, sold the rest. Build an outdoor pen after the weather warmed up. Used to bring them in at night. Checked them a 2:00 pm, 10 were dead by 4:00pm. A swarm of TINY flies came in and drew so much blood it killed them. The remaining 5 were almost dead, used a heat lamp to bring...