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Have a 250 gallon tank for 26 chickens and want to prevent the water from freezing
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Have a 250 gallon tank for 26 chickens and want to prevent the water from freezing
I can't imagine changing water that often even in the warmth of the summer! Wow!
I use a bucket that is suspended from a post with nipples not the underside. I throw an aquarium heater into the bucket (it's a small, shatter proof one) that lays on the very bottom. It is connected to a timer that cycles on and off in 30 minute intervals. Easy peasy. Our temps are to bottoms out at -9F tonight and it was 2 last night...the water never froze.
put a a little salt in my water it gives it a lower freezing pointx2
Hot water will freeze solid quickly, while if you water them with cool water, it will actually freeze slower and only start with a thin sheet of ice on the surface of the water which can easily be punched through. The reason behind this is that cold water has more dissolved gas in it, which settles on nucleation sites on the walls of the water container. These disturbances on the sides of the container are what allow water to crystallize. But hot water has less dissolved gas, and the entire solution slowly cools until once it cools enough, the entire thing begins to freeze rather than just a thin crust around the edges.
It is almost like the hot water allows the rapidly cooling water to become supercooled , and then when it finally is disturbed because of the addition of a seed crystal, it freezes solid.
Put salt in waterWe don't have electricity at the chicken coop. How do you keep the water from freezing in the winter? Also want to know your ideas for insulating the chicken coop/run against the rain/ice/snow in the winter?