whatcha all use...
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Topic: whatcha all use...
Posted By: shameless dude
Subject: whatcha all use...
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2019 at 12:26am
| to keep your chicky waterers thawed in the cold? in the old chicky house it wasn't a problem, but it will be this year i'm afraid. new location, closer to the house. I spose i'll be carrying water every morning! PffffT! |
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Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2019 at 5:18am
Mom just uses a lectric bucket heater, just a probe lookin thing that plugs in, and heats the bucket, just a little. Look under chicken supplies... you should be givin them fresh water, 1X a day, anyway...
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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2019 at 5:50am
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neighbour used one of those 'red heat lights', found a low power version ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2019 at 6:38am
| I use a heated pan the waterer sits on. Works good until Sub zero weather. Sub zero weather nothing works good! |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2019 at 8:24am
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I've used Pipe heat tape and insulation of course. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Cold-Weather-Pipe-and-Valve-Heating-Cable-with-Built-in-Thermostat-3-Feet/713842844?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=10584&adid=22222222227111850032&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=233462547748&wl4=pla-383513547086&wl5=9019686&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=117097151&wl11=online&wl12=713842844&veh=sem&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI947Uz6G85AIVjYbACh2dkQduEAQYCiABEgKvN_D_BwE" rel="nofollow - - https://www.walmart.com/ip/Cold-Weather-Pipe-and-Valve-Heating-Cable-with-Built-in-Thermostat-3-Feet/713842844?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=10584&adid=22222222227111850032&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=233462547748&wl4=pla-383513547086&wl5=9019686&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=117097151&wl11=online&wl12=713842844&veh=sem&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI947Uz6G85AIVjYbACh2dkQduEAQYCiABEgKvN_D_BwE Aquarium heater and insulation, also put heater in jar of water in bucket to keep submerged. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Submersible-Heater-Heating-Rod-for-Aquarium-Glass-Fish-Tank-Temperature-Adjustment-50w-300w/332016179?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=18988&adid=22222222227285602664&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=344317323528&wl4=pla-461428307742&wl5=9019686&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=125210027&wl11=online&wl12=332016179&veh=sem&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIkuCYqqO85AIVD9vACh2LPQJkEAQYBiABEgLVyPD_BwE" rel="nofollow - - https://www.walmart.com/ip/Submersible-Heater-Heating-Rod-for-Aquarium-Glass-Fish-Tank-Temperature-Adjustment-50w-300w/332016179?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=18988&adid=22222222227285602664&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=344317323528&wl4=pla-461428307742&wl5=9019686&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=125210027&wl11=online&wl12=332016179&veh=sem&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIkuCYqqO85AIVD9vACh2LPQJkEAQYBiABEgLVyPD_BwE And maybe you could used one of your hundreds of heating pads laying around. with insulation of course.------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2019 at 11:13am
Well you moved the kitchen out on the deck, what are you doing with the old kitchen?Dang there ant no picture for running for all I am worth,looking over my shoulder.  I better go to cutting wood lots and lots of wood Something says it is be a lonnnng,lonnnnnnnnnng cold winter here this year.Hay maybe I see a way out yet.
If them stockholders would go south for the winter maybe a deluxe chicken house is available. |
shameless dude wrote:Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2019 at 11:53am
If them stockholders would go south for the winter maybe a deluxe chicken house is available. 
------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2019 at 12:08pm
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A propane thru wall heater. Keep it at about 45*. It should keep the feather dander down too! ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2019 at 1:37pm
| at $.44 a dozen can't afford chicken feed eggs are cheaper |
Posted By: Dave in PA
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2019 at 2:03pm
| We use the same as Klinemar, good till about 8-9 degress. |
Posted By: 200Tom1
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2019 at 2:07pm
Heated dog bowl might work. 
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Posted By: modirt
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2019 at 8:28pm
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Electric bird bath heater submerged in water bucket......horizontal water nipples. Was still working at -15F. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2019 at 9:55pm
| What did they do back before electricity is what I've wondered...just keep swapping the waterers out a few times/day? |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2019 at 12:02am
| We opened the windows between the barn and the chicken coop. Let the cows keep the chickens warm. Chicken coop was built off end of barn still had screens in the Windows kept chickens from getting in the barn the whole south wall was Windows. The coop never got below freezing. Early spring when we started new chicks. They stayed in a large water tank in the calf pen with a light in one end. Even at -20 when I went in to clean the barn ever afternoon first thing getting in side was take off jacket and hang up till it was time to roll the wheelbarrow out to the manure pile. |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2019 at 12:50am
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First thing to do is turn off the fircken ^#*$&)@ Pretty machine! ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2019 at 5:22am
NO CHIT,,John,,he awful worried bout them chickies havin to drink cold freezin water ,,,,???,,,,,and,,,,and,,,the dang solution is right in plain sight,,!! Chit,,I best be keepin these thoughts to myself,,else,,chit,,I'm outa here,,,,
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Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2019 at 8:34am
I just checked with google. All kinds of heated chicken waterers for sale.  |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2019 at 10:34am
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He's trying to conserve on his buried jars of greenback preserves, or Wally World has gotten too Wally Eyed World for him.
------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: caledonian
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2019 at 7:02pm
| Mix whiskey in with the chicken water. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2019 at 11:17pm
| I wonder if one of them little pig warming mats would work? I've tried the heated dog waterer, and the heated bucket warmer, and the pan heater and others and they all gave up about 1/2 way thru winter. guess i'll hafta do a propane heater. hopefully i'll have a new building for them too in a couple months from now. coons have already got 3 of them so far. |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2019 at 11:53am
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Your lucky day Farm Show mag showed up yesterday Shameless. All you that read it know there are cheaper(more frugal,fe O'l Joe) than you Shameless. Just take the croock pot out to the chicky house and plug it in on low. Nothen to it if the electric plug works. But it might be a good idea to just slip a new one in the house and not wrap it up for a Christmas present for your .................loving wife. |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2019 at 4:29pm
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Good Idea Ray. ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2019 at 10:45pm
| that IS a good idea! thanks! |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2019 at 4:47am
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Just cot my copy of FSM, they also used a dimmer switch, with that crock pot, experimented around, and found a setting, that kept the water heated to just above freezing... Hang the electrical components up high, and you should be OK... ------------- Source: Babylon Bee. Sponsored by BRAWNDO, its got what you need! |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2019 at 1:23pm
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Dave, Dave we are dealing with SHAMELESS. So K I S keep it simple . I don't want him roasting the chicky before he wanted roast chicky.
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