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The heater in the bucket is a submersible one. Unfortunately the galvanized waterer has a top that has to fit down over it to allow the water to flow into the trough. So I can't drop the heater into it.

Thank you for that detailed account. I’ve been worried about the current. They used the bucket/nipple method so readily all summer, so it seemed likely that the electricity was causing the problem.

No. It doesn’t heat the water it just keeps it from freezing. The water stays cool

The water in the bucket with the nipples and the heater doesn’t freeze. They just avoid it.

Just to clarify, we used the bucket/nipple method all summer.

We used it all summer and those 7 chickens could take the water level down pretty fast. They also switched over to the nipple method really quickly.

Ours is one of the galvanized waterers. It’s in the run though and not in the coop.

We have 7 chickens The fountain is elevated on a stool but they get on top of it sometimes. There is a cover on it, they just poop in the trough when they sit on top. I’ve fixed a toboggan disk over it and now they don’t jump on top Also, somehow it must trap a little heat under there...

That makes sense

I’ve wondered if there might be a current in the water that they can feel. I’d wondered if anyone had had that problem with these heaters . I thought I might just remove the heater, put in all fresh water and see how that works. I wonder how long it would take them to realize there is a...

I think you must be right. I would see them stand on top of the water bucket to reach droplets of melting snow on the fence. I’m thinking too that they just need a lot less water in the winter. We’re getting quite a bit of snow now. I wonder if they have to wait until it melts to access it.

Yes, we had quite a bit of snow and as it melted I was sure that must be where they were getting their water. But we’ve had a coup,e of weeks with no melting snow or rain. The water level in the bucket went down a tiny bit, but nothing like it did in the summer when it was so hot.

We have a 5 gal. bucket with horizontal nipples that the hens used all summer and fall. As our Utah cold weather came in I dropped a trough heater into the bucket to keep the water from freezing but doesn’t “heat” the water. I realized the water wasn’t going down, even though I checked the...