Quality Heated Waterer

[Hivoltage]

The one I recommended is too big and if filled with water it is very sturdy and can barely be moved. Chickens don't like to 'swim' like ducks. They would only poop in it if it was placed under a roost. Also the one I recommended is tall and hasn't gotten shavings in it.

Nice! Me likey !

 

[Sipplchicks]

Well they can't tip a bowl that has a wider bottom than top, and they don't poop in it...you're not talking about ducks are you? That might be a different story....
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I wipe it out and add fresh water daily some of the girls perch on it , I heard that someone put it inside a 5 gallon bucket with holes, for me a paper towel and fresh water daily works fine. Found it at tractor supply cheaper than the heated chicken one you have to tip over and clean daily.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I made this...

And here is the inside...

The socket with cord and switch cost $5. The other components were scrap i had.

 

[Sipplchicks]

Nice

 

[Liddy]

I have a 5-gallon Lowe's bucket with 3 vertical poultry nipples in the bottom. I dropped a birdbath de-icer inside and even in our sub-zero nights so far this winter up here in the far north of Maine, the water hasn't frozen. In the bucket, that is. The poultry nipples project far enough beyond the bucket that they freeze during the nights, when no hens are drinking. So far, in the mornings I trudge out with my little custard cup and a measuring cup with hot water, fill the cup all the way full and hold it over each nipple until it thaws. Once the hens begin pecking, all is well until roosting time comes around.

This is the first time we've had this long a cold stretch in the 4 winters I've lived up here. I like the hanging bucket. I like not having to clean it daily. I'd prefer not to have to thaw out anything every day.

I have to shovel snow to occupy the 49 hens while I perform my thawing trick or they try to kill me pecking at the snow on my boots. My coop is not heated.

Any suggestions?