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[Mrs MIA]

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I am curious. How do you provide water when it's -18F? Just snow maybe?

I use soda pop bottle waterers , and trade them out 2-3 times a day when they're frozen.

Unless you can keep them inside and just above freezing, it is futile to resist the freezing.

 

[mustanger]

That sounds pretty labor intensive if you have very many birds. Would a heated waterer work for you? I have one that has kept water flowing when the outside temp was -17. That is a rare thing here, but it does work. What I use is an automotive oil pan heater in an inverted metal pan. The metal water tank sits on top. Only problem with it is that it gets too hot when the temperature is close to 32. I don't have a thermostat on it, but need one. Can't find one. Would like to use a button type like they use on commercial heaters, but can't source it. I would think that a similar heater with around 250 watt capability would work up there. You could always add another heater if 250 wasn't enough.

David

 

[spotsplus]

My pair- hen is a Tennasee Red, male is Northern normal:

Mr. Bob head shot:

I use a box or plastic tub as a brooder with heat lamps- works well for all kinds of chicks.

Tammie

 

[lcw]

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very cute. hatched any babies from that pair yet. might be pretty interesting!!

 

[Mrs MIA]

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Not really. I have a couple hundred birds split between 3 pens. But they're spread out just far enough, and no easy electricity, so that's what we use. Of course, I work from home, so it's no hardship for me to go out morning, noon, night to change out the waterers.

 

[spotsplus]

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very cute. hatched any babies from that pair yet. might be pretty interesting!!

I incubator hatched one chick out last summer to be a pet (and she is). She's like her mom- red but no breast white and has white specks on her head. The pair laid tons of eggs but I didn't let them hatch any as I was keeping them as pets for the most part.

TAmmie