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Interesting article. I don't have a horse, or cow, and my chicken manure gets turned into the deep litter bedding of the coop. If the bucket in the manure hole works as well as stated, then that would be a great idea for some people. For myself, I'm sticking with my metal 3 gallon water fount...

This is true, but where I live, the frost line is down to ~60 inches and historical cold winters we see 72+ inches deep. You would have to dig a very deep hole where I live before you get through that frozen dirt!

This is my point exactly, a biomass would have to be rather large, and I would think much larger than a small hole with manure in it. I have seen a number of YouTube videos using large biomass compost piles with a water hose curled up in the center and using the heat of that biomass to heat a...

Sounds like the start of a bad joke! Really? :idunno How in the world would that even work? The last 2 nights our temps got down to -17F. Anything with water in it is frozen solid. That fresh manure would freeze solid in no time and now I have a bucket stuck in manure!? What am I missing here?

Nice idea with picture. Thanks for sharing.

I am having very good luck with my 3 gallon metal water fount and metal base heater. I have my water in my coop. The coop has about 6 inches of wood chips deep litter. At first, the chickens were scratching stuff into the water. But I bought a patio paver block, put the metal base heater on the...