I use a Home Depot type bucket and wrap a 6' pipe trace tape around it and duct tape so it stays on but doesn't allow heat to build up but keeps water from freezing.
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Thank you bruceha2000 I did not know that about aquarium heaters
I wonder if those temperature controlled Easy Heat Inc. 10802 Plug Kit For Pipe Heating Cable-HEATING CABLE PLUG KIT (not necessarily this one) I've seen different ones too, but I wonder if that would work? Turns on at 32 degrees turns off at 40..
I'll have to check that out. Thank you
Frozen eggs.. Are the eggs still good if they are frozen?
Nice writeup Ron. Love the idea of the night light plugged into the Thermocube. I wonder if the "20F above ambient" could keep your system useful below 10F if the nest boxes were closed except for a hole just large enough for the hen to enter so it would hold some heat inside. Or with "nest box curtains" which some people say their hens prefer for privacy. Can't say mine would like them since all but two ONLY use the open boxes, not the community box with a single access hole.