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For the record, under certain circumstances hot water does in fact freeze more quickly than cold water. It's called the Mpemba effect, and adding hot water to your freezing chicken waterer will probably trigger it. You may be able to get around this by heating the water receptacle (running it...

You guys she already said her hisband will not allow extension cords because he thinks its a fire hazard. Have you talked about outdoor weather resistant extension cords? Wrap the joining bits with electrical tape and then duct tape and theres no worry about a short. An extension cord is only a...

Wow, lots of great ideas for using the sun to keep water from freezing. Perhaps you can combine a few of them--place a black-colored water receptacle on some ceramic tiles in the sun. :D

We don't have electricity to our coop, technically. Well, with two extension cords and a power strip we do. We run them from an outdoor outlet on our house, around a couple trees, and under the eaves of the hen house roof. We have a power strip that handles two heat lamps that we really don't...