stopping water from freezing

[redstars]

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Exactly.

 

[SimplyForties]

I wonder if something like this would work for people with no electricity to their coop -

http://www.hydrogenappliances.com/hotwater.html

It runs off a car battery.

A friend recently gave me a Solar Sipper water heater

http://www.solarsippers.com/main.html

that runs on D batteries. They last for 2,4 or 8 hours. I haven't tried it yet. This will be my first Va winter with chickens so I don't yet know if I'll need it. I don't think either will help the OP, who's talking about days, but for overnights it might work. Anyone tried one of these?

 

[mossy_oak23]

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at the most its 2 MABEY 3 days. I usually get up there once a day though. I have decided for the good of the chickens to send them off for the winter

its gonna cost me 25 bucks a month not including feed cost to house them at a local farm but I feel its the right thing to do. My chickens do fine for 2 days without me up there. I have proper feeding systems and waterers and over the months of trial and error i feel most things (predators aside) are fool proof. If a fox or yote were to get in my coop whether it was closer to my house or way back in a field it wouldn't really make a difference. Unless of course I heard them being attacked at which point I would head out and shoot them.