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  1. jthornton

    DIY Winter-Proof Chicken Waterer?

    Yea a stock tank heater is designed to keep the surface of the water from freezing while we need the bottom of the tank to get heat and keep the nipples from freezing. When I tried that I was "new-not-nohow" JT
  2. jthornton

    DIY Winter-Proof Chicken Waterer?

    Yea in hind sight the submersible would have been a better choice because the water is at the bottom with a floating heater will be much colder than the top. Not sure how much the direct wind had to do with it but at the time I needed a water system that "just worked". I do have waterproof I2C...
  3. jthornton

    DIY Winter-Proof Chicken Waterer?

    I tried horizontal nipples with a floating stock tank heater in a plastic 5 gallon bucket exposed to the wind but they kept freezing up. So I went back to the vertical nipples and a submersible heater and just added some insulation foam around the nipples then cut the bottom 3" off another...
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