Does anyone else want to smash their waterers?

[sara]

I am so tired of frozen waterers. I could just smash every single last one of them. I don't have any electric in a few of my pens out back, so those freeze. Even if they are empty they are frozen shut..

 

[PurpleChicken]

Mine froze today just by being on the floor of the barn. I have power
and propane heat and they still froze.

With all the chicken, rabbit, at quail waterers we have it makes more
sense for me to just heat the entire barn.

Now, in my still sick condition, I need to go carry them into the house to defrost. Yucko!

 

[sara]

I feel like that's all i've done for days. Carry waterers out, bring the others in to thaw. Then repeat.

 

[debilorrah]

Hey one of our members here broke his ribs yesterday trying to unscrew the darned thing. Of course I laughed at him, but it's really a pain in the rear isn't it.

 

[ksacres]

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Really? Who?

 

[key west chick]

I've gone out 3 times today so far to haul hot water out to the goats and chickens. I'm sick of it and its 30* here and it will be in the 50's again by next week. Can't imagine what you northerners are going through.

 

[oldchickenman]

benn changeing water in the waters 2 times a day and carrying trach cans of water on the back of a picup to the horses we have heaters in the horse troughs but the hose is frozen now oh well.

 

[Kesta]

sara you got gifted!

 

[BeardedChick]

Get those black rubber Fortiflex pans. Those are super easy to get the ice out. And they are fairly cheap.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Me too...and they worked really well until my chickens / ducks would walk through them & get wet. Then die.

Now that it's "warmed up" to the mid-20s they seem to be doing okay with those. I just ended up getting a big of cheap-o plastic waterers from the feedstore and I just rotate them. I bring some in at night, while taking the others out and I do that twice a day on weekdays and three times on weekends.