She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

[chicapee]

I love oldies, too. I'm all over the place.  Wiggles and Barney, however, I banned from the house. lol
Loooooove me some Hank SR and Patsy Cline.


I'm so happy she's doing better! Ours is too.   Now where dem pics at?
How old are your BLRW?  I can't remember. . .

I think they are almost 26 weeks, I don't have my calender with me at the mo.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

We got our first covering of snow this morning....and the chickens are not liking it....lol They won't come out of their coops. Can't say I blame them....lol

 

[kwhites634]

We got our first covering of snow this morning....and the chickens are not liking it....lol They won't come out of their coops. Can't say I blame them....lol

Procrastinating on bringing in more firewood...should be in the 50's the next couple days.
Sorry you have to put up with the white stuff already.

 

[lazy gardener]

We got 4" 2 nights ago. Water frozen solid this morning. I'm procrastinating getting a heated waterer set up for them. I have a heated dog bowl, but surely not big enough for 27. Have the bucket and horizontal nipples to make a 5 gal waterer. Just need to get it made, and will put an immersible fish tank heater in it. Any suggestions re: wattage?

 

[kwhites634]

We got 4" 2 nights ago. Water frozen solid this morning. I'm procrastinating getting a heated waterer set up for them. I have a heated dog bowl, but surely not big enough for 27. Have the bucket and horizontal nipples to make a 5 gal waterer. Just need to get it made, and will put an immersible fish tank heater in it. Any suggestions re: wattage?

I'd think a heater for a 10 gal tank would work, considering it's outside; no clue what the wattage would be anymore...got rid of all my aquarium stuff last summer.

 

[Pyxis]

We got 4" 2 nights ago.  Water frozen solid this morning.  I'm procrastinating getting a heated waterer set up for them.  I have a heated dog bowl, but surely not big enough for 27.  Have the bucket and horizontal nipples to make a 5 gal waterer.  Just need to get it made, and will put an immersible fish tank heater in it.  Any suggestions re: wattage?  

I used a 50 watt one last winter in my five gallon waterer and it worked, but the water not in the vicinity of the heater did freeze so this year I'm upping to a 100 watt one.

 

[lazy gardener]

I still have way too much fish stuff in storage. Really need to get rid of it, but have a lot of money invested in those aquariums. One, a corner, bow front 45G. I love that one! Had CO2 injection and had to pull out a bucket full of plants every month or so. I also have a thermocube that I can put on it to turn it off when temp gets warmer in the coop.

 

[WalnutHill]

We got 4" 2 nights ago. Water frozen solid this morning. I'm procrastinating getting a heated waterer set up for them. I have a heated dog bowl, but surely not big enough for 27. Have the bucket and horizontal nipples to make a 5 gal waterer. Just need to get it made, and will put an immersible fish tank heater in it. Any suggestions re: wattage?

We overwinter about 140 birds, and keep a 55 gallon food grade polyethylene barrel for water. We put a hose bib in a few inches from the bottom, and put it on a pallet to provide gravity water flow to homemade automatic waterers. There is a thermostatic stock tank heater in the barrel, and thermostatic heat tapes on the hoses, wrapped in foam pipe insulation and duct tape. The end of the heat tape is wrapped around the float valve and in the waterer bowl (a holder for a small horse salt block).

We've been using this setup for years.

It would be nice to be able to keep the hose running all winter, but this way we fill the barrel about once a week.

 

[lazy gardener]

Thanks. Sounds like a good set up. My hose bib is about 100' from my coop. I could access warm water from the laundry room, again, about 100'. I think I'll be ok with the 5 gal waterer, set up in the coop, and just refill with gallon jugs carried outside from kitchen. That will free up the heated dog bowl for FF. Win/win situation! Any one know if it's an issue if heated dog bowls get empty? Do they overheat, or does the heating element burn out faster if they are allowed to get empty. I know I'm on the wrong thread. Sorry for hijacking!

 

[kwhites634]

Thanks. Sounds like a good set up. My hose bib is about 100' from my coop. I could access warm water from the laundry room, again, about 100'. I think I'll be ok with the 5 gal waterer, set up in the coop, and just refill with gallon jugs carried outside from kitchen. That will free up the heated dog bowl for FF. Win/win situation! Any one know if it's an issue if heated dog bowls get empty? Do they overheat, or does the heating element burn out faster if they are allowed to get empty. I know I'm on the wrong thread. Sorry for hijacking!

Can't help you there; never used heated bowls 'cause the kennels were too far from the house to run electric w/o a jumble of extensions. I just used Fortex rubber buckets; carry a fresh one down a couple times a day, remove the frozen ones & set them next to the wood stove to thaw.