I'll be putting water & electric lines to the barn in a month or two. I have several breeder pens in the barn and two brooder areas with multiple cages (like 12), plus outdoor hutches. I'll need to keep the quail system seperate from the chicken system, which is fine.
I got great suggestions here about using my water buckets with nipple waterers and aquarium heaters. However, I will have to use some type of a bucket hanger, since the bails are pulling loose, including one that crushed 2 BCM and 1 Wheaten Penedesenca chicks. Bucket holders are high priced, so I'm thinking about using a piece of large fencepost to rest most of the bucket on and then secure it to the wall with pipe anchor strapping, where I can slide it in and out for cleaning.
If I choose to use 5 gallon buckets with PVC pipe and nipple waterers for the brooders & stacking quail pens, I'll use an aquarium heater for the bucket, but what about the pipe? Can I use pipe heat wrap tape safely around the birds? Yes, it's outside the wire, but you know how birds are. Where have ya'll found the pipe tape? Lowes.com and Homedepot.com don't seem to have it. We are technically in the South, but you wouldn't know it by the last few winters. I need to plan for weeks straight of below freezing weather with dips to 0.
All of our projects seem to end up being what we call B.F.P.'s which means BIG FLIPPIN PROJECT.
Any ideas, throw them on out! Thanks so much
I got great suggestions here about using my water buckets with nipple waterers and aquarium heaters. However, I will have to use some type of a bucket hanger, since the bails are pulling loose, including one that crushed 2 BCM and 1 Wheaten Penedesenca chicks. Bucket holders are high priced, so I'm thinking about using a piece of large fencepost to rest most of the bucket on and then secure it to the wall with pipe anchor strapping, where I can slide it in and out for cleaning.
If I choose to use 5 gallon buckets with PVC pipe and nipple waterers for the brooders & stacking quail pens, I'll use an aquarium heater for the bucket, but what about the pipe? Can I use pipe heat wrap tape safely around the birds? Yes, it's outside the wire, but you know how birds are. Where have ya'll found the pipe tape? Lowes.com and Homedepot.com don't seem to have it. We are technically in the South, but you wouldn't know it by the last few winters. I need to plan for weeks straight of below freezing weather with dips to 0.
All of our projects seem to end up being what we call B.F.P.'s which means BIG FLIPPIN PROJECT.
Any ideas, throw them on out! Thanks so much
