Has anyone sucessfully tried wrapping a 3 or 5 gallon bucket with nipple drinkers underneath with heat tape for winter use. How did it work? I'm not interested in using aquarium heaters as they are to undependable for such cold. Thanks.
Has anyone tried to put heat tape on the hose and pipe of nipple drinkers with an imersion heater in the supply bucket? Would this work to prevent freezing so nipple drinkers could be used in freezing winter conditions? Just trying to outthink nature to avoid daily water hauling in the snow.
I picked up my 16 Welsummer chicks on Monday April 18. My chicks are growing deformed!. I noticed they were only walking in circles clockwise, leaning to the right and their right wings were all bigger. Then I realized I had been leaving the radio on to keep them company, and they had been...
In April I will be picking up my first chicks, 15 Welsummers. I will be using Purina Start & Grow (only other choice is DuMore). I will be starting them in the basement, and moving them to the chicken house and tractor when they grow enough. I don't want to end up with left over starter feed...