Let's share our water heaters!!! Show us your water heaters design/setup!!!!

[lookyhereboy]

I just put a bucket/utility/birdbath de-icer in my 3.5 gallon plastic bucket nipple waterer and it works great. Just checked it after a 20 degree night (that's farenhiet) and it worked great. This was my first real test after one night of it freezing. I was concerned the nipples that were exposed may freeze but they didn't. I would recommend this to anyone that can get electricity into their coop. I just run an extension chord from my pond outlet about 20 yards away. It works great. Just make sure you get one safe for a plastic bucket if you use one.

 

[Ullie]

Home Depot $2.49 in the paint section is where I got mine, paint stores may have them too....The handle makes it easier to get in and out without spilling, also I picked up two so I can just carry out a clean one and bring the other back to the house for cleaning. I use OACV too, so wanted to stay plastic! I started with a stainless steel dog dish because I already had it, but the pails are great. Some folks use ice cream buckets but they're $5 and I definitely don't need the ice cream LOL. The blue dish in the picture is over 14 years old and still working, I paid $25 for it when my old dog was a pup. I picked up another for a spare when they had a sale at the farm store here recently, not sure why this one may last forever ;-)

Thanks I will look for them.

 

[Good Egg]

I'm a little dim--why can 't you just use the heated water bowl?

 

[Ullie]

I'm a little dim--why can 't you just use the heated water bowl?

If you read the previous post, you'd see you can.

Life is just easier with the insert.

 

[Dude6710]

Update on mine it didn't work here in Minnesota. Kept freezing the water so I went and got a real heater and dish for poultry.

 

[cracked egg]

I'm a sheet metal worker, made a 30 gallon waterer out of some galvanized metal. I wrap heat tape around the outside,it works as long as it don't get really cold(10 degrees and lower). I have been planning on making a stainless base for it with a heating bulb. Really have been entertaining the idea of fabricating a new waterer that has a inside chamber heated with a bulb. The water will surround a nice warm center core.

 

[Chickenfarmer54]

You can find a galvanized heater on Amazon that sets under your galvanized water container. It has a temperature control on it and if the temp goes below 35, it heats, and if the outside temp goes above 35, it shuts off.






Farm Innovators Heated Base For Metal Poultry Founts Model HP-125, 125-Watt

 

[Chickenfarmer54]

It doesn't melt or burn the plastic?