Chat room for non religious poultry keepers! :D

[ShrekDawg]

Winter has been uncomfortably mild the last few years which means we're due

Yup

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

On another note both our feeder rabbits had babies! They're so cute too bad we'll be eating them

Oh, well, congrats on the future meals anyway!

I've got one of the cockerels I had processed last week in the pressure cooker right now, making ranch chicken and potatoes with him.

I love Disney movies for the most part. some are stupid imo, but others are great. But I also like the original stories too

Yeah, I'd agree with this as well.

OK help me out how do I keep their water not frozen in ohio with no electricity in my coop? this will be my first winter I'm dreading the whole idea of it I'm trying to figure it out now since the leaves are starting to change. Blah

Is your coop close to the house or garage? Mine was close to both so I ran an extension cord or two out there to the coop. Otherwise, get those black rubber bowls and just dump it when it freezes. Those freeze less.

The black rubber bowls are what I use in the winter. I have enough birds, though, that there's always enough activity at the water bowl to keep it from freezing over completely unless it's really cold.

These are the ones I have. I use a couple of the 1-gallon ones for the big flock and the half gallon ones for all of my smaller flocks.

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/fortex-round-feeder-1-gal-capacity-black

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/fortex-round-feeder-1-2-gal-capacity-black

Winter has been uncomfortably mild the last few years which means we're due

I'm seriously afraid of what's to come this winter after how mild last winter was.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Oh, well, congrats on the future meals anyway!

I've got one of the cockerels I had processed last week in the pressure cooker right now, making ranch chicken and potatoes with him.




Yeah, I'd agree with this as well.





The black rubber bowls are what I use in the winter. I have enough birds, though, that there's always enough activity at the water bowl to keep it from freezing over completely unless it's really cold.

These are the ones I have. I use a couple of the 1-gallon ones for the big flock and the half gallon ones for all of my smaller flocks.

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/fortex-round-feeder-1-gal-capacity-black

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/fortex-round-feeder-1-2-gal-capacity-black




I'm seriously afraid of what's to come this winter after how mild last winter was.

They say this winter is supposed to be colder and snowier than usual.

 

[RebelFord81]

Oh, well, congrats on the future meals anyway!

I've got one of the cockerels I had processed last week in the pressure cooker right now, making ranch chicken and potatoes with him.




Yeah, I'd agree with this as well.





The black rubber bowls are what I use in the winter. I have enough birds, though, that there's always enough activity at the water bowl to keep it from freezing over completely unless it's really cold.

These are the ones I have. I use a couple of the 1-gallon ones for the big flock and the half gallon ones for all of my smaller flocks.

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/fortex-round-feeder-1-gal-capacity-black

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/fortex-round-feeder-1-2-gal-capacity-black




I'm seriously afraid of what's to come this winter after how mild last winter was.

Right! Gah lol

 

[Sally PB]

Anyone here who used to watch The Walking Dead? We really liked it... until Neegan came along. We watched one season (6?) with him in it. We watched the first episode of the next season, and said, we're done. We both thought it was gratuitously, graphically violent. We both agreed that someone, somehow, would have said enough of this, and killed him.

I am curious if anyone from the beginning lasted to the end. Did Daryl? Carol? Did they ever get together?

 

[RebelFord81]

Anyone here who used to watch The Walking Dead? We really liked it... until Neegan came along. We watched one season (6?) with him in it. We watched the first episode of the next season, and said, we're done. We both thought it was gratuitously, graphically violent. We both agreed that someone, somehow, would have said enough of this, and killed him.

I am curious if anyone from the beginning lasted to the end. Did Daryl? Carol? Did they ever get together?

I've watched every episode! We are now watching the new ones

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

Anyone here who used to watch The Walking Dead? We really liked it... until Neegan came along. We watched one season (6?) with him in it. We watched the first episode of the next season, and said, we're done. We both thought it was gratuitously, graphically violent. We both agreed that someone, somehow, would have said enough of this, and killed him.

I am curious if anyone from the beginning lasted to the end. Did Daryl? Carol? Did they ever get together?

They all got eaten.































Note: I have never watched the show. But science tells us that everyone would be a zombie in the end.

 

[RoyalChick]

OK help me out how do I keep their water not frozen in ohio with no electricity in my coop? this will be my first winter I'm dreading the whole idea of it I'm trying to figure it out now since the leaves are starting to change. Blah

I use this - it is rated for use with a plastic bucket - I have a 5gallon bucket with horizontal nipples standing on it.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08SWKH2BJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The bucket stays mainly unfrozen except in the most extreme temperatures.

I also use black feed bowls that I tip out when they freeze and I carry a gallon jug of warm water out.

 

[Jester57]

I do have electricity out in my run, and use a water heater for the drinking water. The water stays liquid for the most part, even on days where the condensation above it is frozen into little ice crystals. My problem is that the little gravity-fed water bowls on the side of my 5 gallon bucket keep freezing up overnight. I have to take a pitcher of hot water out every morning and pour it on the bowls until they thaw out.

 

[Sally PB]

I use a heated dog water bowl during freezing temps. We ran an exterior construction grade extenstion cord through the garage wall to the run.