Consolidated Kansas

[ChooksChick]

Daren, you should double check the wattage for the light-bulb heater. My guess is that you should be using a smaller wattage bulb, and that'll save you some money, too. I'd use an oven bulb, myself, as they are coated to prevent easy breakage as well as being a lower wattage.

It doesn't take much at all to keep the water thawed, so a 25w ought to do your job well. Many folks use those fake candles meant for your windows at Christmas in a cookie tin, and those are what? A 15w?

Where'd you get the bulb warmer? It has to have a sticker on it that says what wattage.

I use heated dog bowls, filled with sand. That makes a nice heat ballast to keep the water thawed even if they knock the plug out of the outlet, which they do daily.

 

[OzawkieBantams]

Renee,
I got them from Strombergs and it said to use a 60w bulb.

 

[OzawkieBantams]

Lordy lordy look what I got for forty.

 

[ChooksChick]

Pretty duckies!!

I would definitely use a 25w bulb and see if that won't work for you. I bet it does the trick and won't melt the plastic ones. And I'd toss a double-layer of foil in there to distribute the heat a bit better, too.

I'm sticking to my sand-filled dog bowls!

 

[OzawkieBantams]

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K thank you

 

[schellie69]

Funny/sad story, yesterday my neighbor came over and asked if we had lost a chicken there was one in her front yard. My son went to look it wasn't mine, it was another ladies down the street so ds returned her chicken seems that some one cut her pen open to let out all her chickens she is still missing 2 roosters and a hen. I fear with all the Ferrel cats around that they are gone but that really sucks that some one would do that. I am lucky I have a 6 foot privacy fence in back yard so my chickens are safe. The lady was really glad to have one of her chickens back ds said he has heard of lost cats and lost dogs but a lost chicken was new for him. Just glad we could help a little and return one chicken to her, we have gotten like over 6 inches of snow so it has been really cold so that is also a problem for the lost chickens.

 

[Ivywoods]

Someone cut into her pen? Are yo sure raccoons didn't tear it open? They can tear into just about anything.

If someone really did cut it open, well, how sad. I wish people would get a life.

 

[schellie69]

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No a person cut using wire cutters, not ripped like from a predator we live in a city so we don't have much problem with to many predators. I feel sorry for her this is not the first time. She has some really rare bantam breeds. It just makes me mad what people will do.

 

[mikeksfarmer]

With all this warm weather comming I guess I am looking forward to muddy eggs! today noticed that about 4 eggs were missing from last night. Wondering if cabin fever has not set in; maybe they are going crazy and eating eggs now?????

 

[racecar8791]

Hi everyone. This afternoon I picked up some feed made by Blair Milling in Atchison, KS. Is anyone here familiar with this brand? I'm also looking for some size 12 spiral leg bands for sale or trade if someone around Lawrence has any.