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COChix said:
Welcome to the thread. This is off the subject but noticed your horizontal nipple system, I just set mine up. I was curious how cold you have gotten and how it did in the cold? Do you run a heater in your buckets?
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Thank you! It's been -7 in the coop and no issues. I think having the metal pan upside down and a cookie tin heater on it, underneath really helps keep the nipples from freezing. I can and have unplug the cookie tin when temps get up in the 20's and it's been good with just the pipe heater wrapped around the bucket. I have no water heater inside the water. I was afraid of 1) overheating in the water, 2) Aquarium heater's glass breaking and 3) the amount of electricity used by the tank deicers. Since the pipe heater has a thermostat built in and is on the outside of the bucket and not in the water I've had none of those issues.


Another of my favorites:

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
 
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Thank you and Hello old and new friends! So many familiar faces Avi's!
 
chickwhispers said:
This has been a favorite of mine since I first found it over 30 years ago. Thank you @tntchix for posting the link that is so nice to hear someone read it. Here is the poem in print.
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COChix said:
Welcome to the thread. This is off the subject but noticed your horizontal nipple system, I just set mine up. I was curious how cold you have gotten and how it did in the cold? Do you run a heater in your buckets?
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My 2 cents: we have been down to -25 and no issues. Mine is inside coop with a small deicer. I just take a 2 gal bucket with warm water out every other morning and dump it in and then collect my eggs.
 

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