No electricity to coop and worried about freezing water

[jessabender]

Other ideas that may help with freezing water: take the water in at night to your basement so it won’t freeze, then put it out in the early morning. Works best with gallon waters.
Also some people put a bottle with saltwater in their waterer. Since the saltwater is hard to freeze, this seems to keep the other water from freezing.

Interesting...thanks! It's at least worth a try.

 

[Bert96746]

Could you run an extension cord? I ran an extension cord from my garage and had heated dog bowls plugged in all winter (west Michigan)

 

[Folly's place]

That bottle of salt water? It won't work in very cold temps, like yours!
Mary

 

[CatsandCrops]

I've been wondering too what we're going to do considering it's snowed twice in the past week lol Following this post for more ideas!

 

[aart]

Other ideas that may help with freezing water: take the water in at night to your basement so it won’t freeze, then put it out in the early morning. Works best with gallon waters.

Good idea. I used to have two open waters just swapped them out as necessary(sometimes several times a day) and put the frozen one near the furnace to thaw faster.

Also some people put a bottle with saltwater in their waterer. Since the saltwater is hard to freeze, this seems to keep the other water from freezing.

Won't work. The salt water will freeze at a much lower temp but it won't keep the plain water thawed.