Michigan

[RaZ]

I just had to try the spinning egg trick.

Neato!

 

[NovaAman]

Mom - yea  on the eggs arriving!

Warning to those of you who use the heated dog dishes in this very cold weather. I found blood this morning frozen to the metal feed container.  I couldn't find anyone bloody, however a bit later I discovered Ms. Lorp with a dripping comb.  I believe she dipped her comb in the water while dripping and then stuck herself to the metal while eating.  I brought her in and put styptic powder on her comb.  She was just so sweet standing still while I took care of it.  Then she wanted to check out the bathroom, silly bird.  I know I didn't want to use the dog dish again next winter because my Polish all end up with frozen crest feathers and now with the combed ones for the same reason.

Fill the dog watering dish with sand.... Potting soil will work too if you can not find sand.... Then put you water on top of it. The soil will heat, keeping the water thawed. No more frozen chest/combs/watles. Poor girl.

 

[Farmer Andy]

Mom2- All I can see is the small, medium, incubator, and half of the chicken brooder section.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Hmm. The dog waterer i used last year was plastic. Nobody froze to it, that i knew of. This year i have no electric to my coop, so i am just using warm water in a rubber dish. It is in my camper, and i packed a lot of snow around the camper when the weather first changed, so unless the temps drop into the 20's or less? all i get is a thin layer of ice on the water that they peck a hole in. But the last several days i have to stomp the bowl cause the ice is so thick. :/
:RANT: (We are using my DH's father's half of the family property to do our gardening and house our goats/chickens)
Last year my DH's other family were absolutely SURE that that dog dish was costing an extra $50 a month to run!!

And really, i haven't had thick ice until the last week...? They were very dissapointed when i went out and bought that rubber dish! It was kinda funny, actually cause they still tried to get money from me last winter after i got the rubber dish because there was a cord running to my coop, but had they looked past the rooster they would have seen the dangling end!

Only pull that on me once! Anyway, i'll stop ranting...

I have to say that i'm not a big fan of traditional chicken waterers. they get dirty easy, and always got my fingers wet when i tried to dump them. Not a big bonus when the temps dip like they have. Also all my fuzzie facers get wet every time they take a drink. I like the idea of a nipple water system, and have been wondering about ways to use mabie one of those trailer pipe warming tapes to wrap around something to keep the water from freezing? They supposedly don't use a lot of electric?Would that melt PVC? (But there is still the metal end piece to worry about) I have wondered about aquarium heaters too.
And is there a type of plug in meter you can use to monitor individual items?

 

[ChicwannaB]

what did she look like before, did she have alot more comb? That musta hurt.

Fill the dog watering dish with sand.... Potting soil will work too if you can not find sand.... Then put you water on top of it. The soil will heat, keeping the water thawed. No more frozen chest/combs/watles. Poor girl.

 

[ChicwannaB]

I don't know yet, but I'll be bringing something I can transport long distance, litke brownies or something, nothing sloppy.

I just had to try the spinning egg trick.

Neato!

 

[Opa]

I've been trying the different features of this new system and I must admit that I'm starting to like it. For instance the ability to make the print larger and easier to read to say nothing of being able to change color if you want to highlight particular words.

In the profile section under your recent activity the thread listed show when you posted. You can go to the first or last post and clicking the + sign at the end will cause the posts since yours to appear.

I miss the old favorites button but by subscribing to a thread you accomplish the same thing.

 

[Olive Hill]

And is there a type of plug in meter you can use to monitor individual items?

Yes, there is.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Nice!

How much and where??! My rubber dish is great, but i have to travel to get to my girls and i always worry that the water will freeze in the afternoon if it gets much colder...

I hate not having a "real" house. We waited too long to try to buy, always renting. Now that the economy has nosedived it is nearly impossible to get a loan.we even saw a house for only $10,000, but with no credit.... it is so frustrating.

I am very thankful for being allowed to keep my birds there, but it would be nice to be able to know exactly what i need to pay if i need to plug something in. It's not that i'm not grateful, but at $50 and up a month the eggs would be getting kinda expensive! (I only have 4 laying hens) I mostly do it because i like to know what's in my food, and you don't always get that in the store. Each family member who has rented that trailer is shocked at the electric bill, even when we do not use any. There's something going on with the electric on that road. The neighbors just down the road who's house burned down got a $200 electric bill, even though the firemen disconnected the box the day the house burnt! and "consumers" still argued with them! I think they called it a delivery charge.??!

 

[RaZ]

Yes, there is.

http://www.smarthomeusa.com/ShopByManufacturer/P3-International/Item/P4460/

Just one of many monitors.