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I don't actually know. Maybe it's not on???? I have no idea.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/21-heated-water-dish.64225/ Maybe I'll do something like this?

My current one you take off the bottom and fill upside down. Maybe I could do something like that?

The hose is far away from my coop, don't worry.

That's a good point. I'm sure I could make the hole cork sized and just pop a cork in when I need to refill.

How do you show them? I think that for this winter I will go the route of one of the submersible heaters and the bucket-pie tin route, but once I get chicks I may want to have them on nipple waterers to keep the water and brooder clean, and may transition my birds then.

I am actually thinking that I might do this, seems like it would hold much more and stay much cleaner than a dog bowl.

You can put in the floating thing that @Flockincrazy mentioned in an earlier post.

I am concerned about using nipple waterers because I have adult birds that don't know how to use them. Would I be able to train them?

Maybe I'll do one of these with the floating thing @Flockincrazy was talking about.

I've seen one done with a 5 gallon bucket and a pie tin that seems lie it would be good. Cut little holes near the bottom of the bucket and fill with water. Attach pie tin. Instant waterer.

The only parts of that paragraph that I understand are 'outlets' and 'licensed electrician'. Yeah....I don't think that my parents are paying anyone to make our chicken coop electric. I wish!

I will see how they use a large water bowl weighed down with a rock. Hopefully they will not walk into it. Good that beards/muffs aren't an issue. :oops: I was thinking that I'd run extension cords up the yard...I have no idea how to wire a coop to be safely powered.

Thanks for the link! It looks great.

Unfortunately I am at school all day so I need something that will not need refilling. I am looking into a dog water dish! I have a leghorn with larger wattles than my other birds, but no roosters or anyone with ginormous ones. Thinking ahead, I may be getting some bearded birds (easter egger...

Ooh, that's a good idea! Do you think I could use it in a gravity fed waterer?

thanks for the link! Unfortunately our soil is quite rocky so it would be difficult to dig a proper hole.

It is cooling down and I am starting to look at options to use to water my chickens in the winter without freezing. I need one that is pretty deep and also heavy enough that they can't knock it over. Battery operated would be great but I can run extension cords.