Frozen Water

[deegee68]

Good morning. We got our first big freeze night and the girls water was frozen solid. I am using a double wall 5 gallon but it looks like I need to go heated. The problem is, I do not have electricity out there. Can someone please give me suggestions on how to go solar and run a heated waterer. Thanks.

 

[Echelontheory101]

Good morning. We got our first big freeze night and the girls water was frozen solid. I am using a double wall 5 gallon but it looks like I need to go heated. The problem is, I do not have electricity out there. Can someone please give me suggestions on how to go solar and run a heated waterer. Thanks.

I use the rent a coop heater belt, I like it because it doesn't go IN the bucket and doesn't get hot just keeps the water above freezing so if you have plastic waterers you can use it with those and not worry about getting metal ones.

For the power problem I have an expensive solution or somewhat expensive solution depending on om your budget that I use successfully, I bought a jackery battery bank and their solar panel. I mounted the solar panel to the top of the roof of the coop and the jackery just works like a regular outlet it's got a bunch of different plug options and I can run my box fan and the water heater off of it and it works for a full 24 hours and depending on where you have the solar panel even in snowy New England weather like mine it's still recharges every day. That is going to cost a couple hundred dollars I think the battery and panel was 340, but then you have reliable solar electricity out there. The other option is either running extension cords or look at cheaper solar batteries but I really do recommend jackery I use one inside the house for power outages as well I have a separate one.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

Would some kind of solar heated bird bath work?

Or a solar powered pool heater?

Do you think a solar aerator would keep the water from freezing?