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[artsyrobin]

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June - if you can give coral those tins, i'd love to have them- she could be my courier...

hey guys here''s your chance to get her awesome roos!!

They're yours...have her track me down. Do you want the popcorn barrels, too...I was thinking that you couold use a higher wattage bulb and make a 'pot-bellied' stove....

yes, i am thinking they would be good to do too!! i have a hunch we are in for quite a winter

 

[Sooner]

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You can find them at goodwills & such. That is where all of mine came from.

 

[Ok_Junebug]

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You can find them at goodwills & such. That is where all of mine came from.

I save my cookie tins and popcorn buckets from work (these are from last year)...customers bring us lots of eats at Christmas time, and of course, I'm a such a packrat I never throw anything away, so it will clear out some space in my garage so I can save more for next year.

 

[Sooner]

I think I paid .25 & .50 for them. I am always on the look out for them.....

I am a packrat too. Never fails if I get rid of something then I will need it.

 

[Allbreeds]

 

[Ksane]

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June - if you can give coral those tins, i'd love to have them- she could be my courier...

hey guys here''s your chance to get her awesome roos!!

They're yours...have her track me down. Do you want the popcorn barrels, too...I was thinking that you couold use a higher wattage bulb and make a 'pot-bellied' stove....

That's an excellent idea about the popcorn tins! You could even hang them from the ceiling or something a few ft off the floor. Just make sure it can't be knocked loose and you'd have a radiant Corn Can Heater.
Edit: Sooner I'd gotten some at the thrift store, too. But they were only 6" around. Once I got to measuring I wanted ones that were a little bit wider than the base of the waterer. Actually I checked at 3 other places and just ended up going back to the other side of Edmond to WalMart and getting the bigger ones.

 

[Ok_Junebug]

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You might have to experiment a little to make sure that it doesn't get too hot any place....you know SOMEBODY will try to sit on it, and you don't want to burn their feet. If the bulb were in the bottom of the popcorn barrel it would radiate out better...and hang low, because heat rises...just don't burn any feet.

 

[NanaKat]

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Dollar General has them at a lower price....of course, I still fill tins with cookies and other goodies.

 

[Sooner]

Edit: Sooner I'd gotten some at the thrift store, too. But they were only 6" around. Once I got to measuring I wanted ones that were a little bit wider than the base of the waterer. Actually I checked at 3 other places and just ended up going back to the other side of Edmond to WalMart and getting the bigger ones.


When I was looking it seemed like they were everywhere. I have some that are 10 & 12 inches (the really big one's), I even hauled some to Shawnee last year for Al. Glad you were able to find them.

I don't know that I would do the popcorn one, I don't provide heat for any of my chickens........the only exception to that would be DD's moderns if we don't get the building done for them to be inside a building. My hope is that they can be in a building without heat.

 

[Ksane]

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I'm not going to do any kind of heat unless it gets below zero for the ones inside buildings. But I've got three 8x8 covered pens against the north side of the house that don't have an actual building to go into. I *am going to visqueen those pens because the wind is bitter on that side and those are the ones I think I'll put the popcorn can heaters into. Just for when it's below zero.