heated waterers??

[Parson's Wife]

There's a very old thread on here, with lots of good advice and pic. will try to find the link for you.
There was lots of ingenius ideas of keeping the water from freezing.

 

[Lofty bok bok]

For some reason my chickens will step on the edge of any feeder and knock it over. If I put a pie tin on the metal heated base they would find a way to step on the edge and spill it. I have to find a way to fasten it so it wont tip. This will be my first winter with chickens and I have to admit Ive been a bit worried about this water issue.

 

[goldies99]

you dont want to put a pie tin on the heated base....it would have to be a galvanized waterer!...thwey are heavy and i dont think chicken would knock it over!
did you look some up so you can see what they are???...lots of pics of all the different kinds!!!

 

[SteveBaz]

I looked at this search and its a great one;

http://www.nextag.com/heated-dog-waterer-feeder/stores-html

Good luck,

Steve

 

[Mommysongbird]

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Umm, how do you keep the chickens away from the wire (or other live stock, including dogs)??? Also how do you you keep you waters sitting on top of these things?? Our chickens knock their full waters off of cinder blocks now.

 

[Tofer76]

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this is EXACTLY what i do in the winter and here in illinois it freezes good for a good while
when it drops really itto the teens and below the tips of the nips will freeze however so as a back up i have a heated dog bowl in there as well
works fine and they dont cost as much as a heated waterer that still gets alot dirtier than my buckets

 

[MIKE555444]

I bought two of the plastic 2 1/2 gal cans that have the heater built in. I used them all last winter with no problems at all. If you are on a budget id just buy these. I could not bring myself to pay double the price but the metal may give you more years of service. After the threat of freezing was gone I retired them for the summer and will bring them out again when it get cold.

If you are on a really tight budget you can always make one of the cookie tin warmers. I used this one year

 

[oldchickenlady]

I made 2 cookie tin heaters last year...took about 5 minutes. I found a small electrical plug that a light bulb screws into directly at Walmart for about a dollar, cut a hole in the side of the cookie tin and ran an extension cord through the hole, then plugged that into thermal cube (power comes on when temp falls to about 40) and they worked perfectly. I made 2 and used a 40 watt bulb in them. I did have to change to a 60 watt during an extreme cold spell (single digits...well extreme for me!) I used both a plastic and a galvanized watered on them. The hardest thing was fixing 2 level spots in my run to set them, since my run was on a slope.

 

[oldchickenlady]

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