Winter and watering :)

[Jeremy Parker]

I'm in the great white North.

Canada I just use a pail of water and keep changing.

Don't like to use any heat if possible creates moisture then you will have trouble!!

Blessings,
Jeremy

 

[shopchicks]

I have a 5 gallon bucket with poultry nipples and plan to use a bucket de-icer inside of it this winter. I will probably get a second lid and fit the cord through that lid and seal it with silicone.

http://www.jefferslivestock.com/ssc/product.asp?CID=2&pf_id=0028410

 

[dangelofamily]

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Hey!!!
Thanks for the reply. It is great to hear from someone who lives here too..if you dont mind, where do you live? I am in Cheshire

and for the ventilation part, my father put the vents at the top and at the back, you can't see them because they are high up and we didn't snap a pic of them

thank you so much for the info!

I'm in Suffield. Nice to know you're just down the road in Cheshire! Good news on the ventilation. How nice to have a dad who's in the building business AND is willing to hook you up with a coop!!

Hhaha oh ok, not to far!! I have friends over there.

Yeah, he is in love with his "ladies"

 

[Boo-Boo's Mama]

Search the forum for 'cookie tin heater'. If you have electricity in your coop, you can put one of these in and put your waterer on it. From what I read you can buy the Christmas cookie tins pretty cheap and install a light for little to nothing...much better than the pricey heaters TSC sell.

I'm hoping freezing will not be an issue for me...will see this Winter, our first with chickens.

 

[ADozenGirlz]

I've never seen this cookie tin idea and can't believe I'm reading it in the middle of a 7 day heat wave here in New England! Thanks for the reference!

Here's the Cookie Tin Water Heater link I just read: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=107951&p=1