Frozen chicken water or any livestock water is a big problem during the winter season. Many chicken waterers are made from plastic and when they freeze they will break or not work right. I think I found a good system that doesn’t require electricity.
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Think of how you keep a hot tub warm in the winter/summer to save on your heating costs. Insulate the crap out of those water bowls. Food grade bowls will keep chemicals from leaching into the water and eventually getting into your farm fresh eggs.
Extension cords are made everyday. The house is like right behind you
Or you could just use rubber dishes all year long…
1/3 of the bottle is salt?
Best option we ever used were electric dog bowls. Even came with metal guards on the cords and work amazingly well. We have them in the barn, so get electricity. It gets cold enough here that the only real option is some sort of heating element. I liked the idea of items in the dish to keep the water moving though, that's smart!
Good advice thank you for sharing this with us. 💕NonnaGrace 🐓
Chickens with blue legs lay blue/green eggs.
Okay, six minutes in and we've had THIS waterer is no good, and THIS waterer is really no good and finally a third waterer that's ALSO no good but doesn't suck as bad as the first two…
What we do in the winter with the water feeder we take it indoors and put warm water on it for about five minutes. Let it Thor out and take it back to the coop.❤❤
GOod idea. Will try too
I bring waterer in at night… and swap when I gather eggs a couple times a day before the eggs freeze.
Greetings from Holland, MI!
Great video. Thank you. I came across techniques for moving water and keeping it from freezing g when I had two ducks. I made their pond from a plastic kid's pool. Elevated it and installed a double check valve air lift pump I built. Then I added air bubbles in the main pond. That kept the water from freezing. At least for the duck pond. The chicken water just had an air bubbler and a red heat lamp.
i took your advice and bought black rubber bowls work great
It will cost bt I have used hand warmers under the water to keep it from freezing granted I only have 2 waterers
This doesnt work past 20 degrees people, just go buy a heated dog bowl at tractor supply. and yes I have been raising chickens since the late 70's here in CT so I know a thing about cold winters and chicken farming
Why keep chickens in ths winter whenchickens lay below an egg a day if ur buying feed
All thoss wzterers are for insulzted heated barns
Those black stock bowls are the way to go. Have 2 I keep switched out and can put a heater in it. I do not put water in my coop. I dont have bad winters 3-5 days freezing at a time if that.
Scratch the Chicago hat when you in lion country 😂😂
Thanks for the advice! Will definitely be using the large rubber bowl with bottle with salt water idea. Janice from Arkansas USA
you took almost 9 mins to advise us to put water in a bowl…..
You should do the in the ground tube method .dig a jole put a tube in insulated put your water bowl on top it'll never freeze with the down below in the ground is warmer than the top you could check it out you tube it
I hate like hell to burst your bubble but, salt water does freeze ! I have 10 salt water bottles in my freezer & use them in summer in my cooler to keep everything cold ! Also, salt water frozen is colder than just plain water. If you bring your water ears inside at night you have no problems with freezing! Ok a lil more miner work but when the temp goes down to -60 your water isn’t frozen when you bring it out to your chickens. I’m in Montana & yes it gets down to -60 sometimes. You can go to solar panels but that’s a lot of work with snow & batteries. Just bring them indoors over night.
We seen videos where they it that bowl in a tire with spray foam under it for chickens and 5 gallon buckets in a box with spray foam all around the bucket and a board with a hole in it for the goats to get to the unfrozen water.
Yours is an amazing idea too!
Thanks!
Ty for the tips my chickens will play with the bottle on top of bowl but it will work this winter for us ty for sharing❤❤
If you dig a3 to 4 for hole with these rubber bowls on top of it it will never freeze! The earths heat keeps it from freezing but you need to have a rim 3in above the rim of bowl if that makes sense! Most build a box around it with 2×10 sticking up past the bowl rim! Use a plastic covert pipe to line your 4ft deep hole
I just want to put this out there, bro you're not the first to raise chickens so why you got to go through the process of showing people how to chip ice from a water dish baffles the leading scientists as they scratch their heads wondering why you think people need every step of the way guidance. lmao
Chickens eat snow in the winter
I got a friend who never has given his chickens water in the winter. They just deal with eating snow and what not. Its crazy, but hes had them for over a decade and never had a problem. i.e. no chickens have died from dehydration or appear to have a problem. I don't know how it works. My chickens gorge themselves on water in the winter and I can see they enjoy it.
Put that black bowl in a 15 inch tire. (Car tire) It helps. You can also put insulation like newspaper and other things inside of the tire before putting the bowl In it.
LOLOL…No power…butt tv and pc you have? LOLOL
I would suggest the bowl as well. More work refilling daily but very useful. Great suggestions with the bottle of salt water and moving objects. I'm definitely going to try this! Thanks!
I put hot I mean hot from the teapot put jar set it in the waterer fill to full , put to bottom back on take it out to coop chickens will drink the warm (hot water) last tell the go to bad repeat in the morning we live in the U. P. we got cold and snow !
I use 5 gallon bucket with nipple waterers on the sides for 12 chickens. If the temp drops below freezing I add the tractor supply electric bucket water heater. Never had the nipples freeze up on me.
Water stays clean and only need to fill it once a week.
There’s a guy in the northeast that took a tire & sprayed the yellow foam around in the inside . He placed the water bowl inside the tire. The water did not freeze. The video is “ problem solved on Lumnah Aches.
PS Also recommend putting a tomato cage around that
It'll keep the chickens out of the bowl😊
If someone needs to watch this to figure out how to water chickens in the winter they might rethink raising animals of any kind.
Good ideas ! God Bless !!!
Mix 3 or 4 cups of sugar per gallon of water, this lowers the feeezing point considerably and if it freezes, the ice formed is very weak & easy to bust up, oftentimes its only a skim.
Sugar is energy for the birds diring the rough winters. Ive seen no adverse effects.
Yes, we use buckets as well.
Myself changes to old metal pans and just smash the ice out and refill with water, I have used plastic bowls over the years but lots of the times the water has frozen to much and if I hit them to hard trying to het the ice out the plastic usually cracks so that’s why I use metal
Put the big black bowl on top of compost inside an old tire.
Molasses will keep water from freezing solid.
I don't know who thought of that salt water in a bottle thing, but it certainly doesn't work. Salt water has a lower specific heat than fresh water, meaning it's willing to absorb heat faster than fresh water. That means the fresh water will be giving it's heat up to the salt water bottle faster than it would otherwise do. It takes about four times the heat to drop the temperature of fresh water by one degree than it does salt water.
Place the black rubber bowl inside a tire that you first place some sort of insulating material in side the tire.