Freezing Waterers Experiment

[Luv Ducks]

Hahahaha, yeah, AI is really helpful for SOME things. I have heard a solar powered water agitator (meant to keep mosquitoes from breeding in bird baths) helps during daylight hours but I just use an electric de-icer myself.

Oh, and I have a nipple bucket waterer in the coop. It doesn't change the humidity if you already have plenty of ventilation.

In Ohio here I have seen heated nipple bucket waterers for chickens advertised. I have power to my duck coops and have 7 heated water bowls for them. Right now we have a foot of snow on the ground and it will get down to -7 F tonight so I am glad that they have them.

 

[debid]

The problem with the heat being built into the bucket is that when either one fails, you have to replace both. And, I normally use the same bucket all year, I just pull the heater out when the danger of freezing weather is over.

But yeah, having electricity to the coop makes it much easier to keep their water liquid. We don't get below zero very often here but I have been happy with the de-icer's ability to keep the nipple thawed when we do have temperatures near zero as well as keeping the water liquid without wasting energy making the water warmer than it needs to be.