Cold Weather Waterer

[snowflake]

I have used the heated water for 2 winters also, unheated coop, we have not had much below zero temps. I also use the cookie tin with a 40wat bulb. both have their faults, 3 gal. heater is a pain to flip over withe out the bottom falling off, but I'm am getting pretty good at it. the water on the cookie tin gets pushed off occasionally so I built wood up around it so the water doesn't fall off so easily.

 

[herfrds]

TomG that is what I got. Still no idea how it got a hole knocked in the top. DH picked me up another one.
The waterers are inside the coop.

No heat lamps over waterers. Lost a 7 gallon one when the heat lamp fell on it and melted the top.

I am extremely careful with heat lamps almost lost my brooder house when the birds were running around and knocked the lamp to the floor and it almost caught on fire.

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

It is -15 outside at this time in Iowa. I bought 4 farm innovation heated base waterers. 2 plug the cord into the base and I would never recommend them but the 2 that came with an 18" pigtail cord I would recommend. I just bottle fed lambs and checked waterers and NONE were frozen. They are not easy to fill without getting wet or spilling some as I carry it in to the coop. I hang them from the ceiling on chains. I used heated dog water bowls (the biggest I could find locally were 5 quart) until this year and those never froze but they did evaporate alot of moisture into the coop. Had to be refilled daily.

 

[minihorse927]

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I have the same deicer in a 5 gallon bucket of water with 4 nipples on the bottom and the thing is awesome. I never have water freeze, not even last night when it was -20!!!!!!! In all I have 1 of this deicer, 4 heated buckets and a 1500watt deicer in the big water tank outside for the horses and my eletric bill went from 116 to 155 with everything running! Oh that includes 2 250watt heat lamps also.