Frozen waterer

[farmertrappe]

Winter is here, two frozen waterers in the shower thawing out . This is the biggest hassle of raising chickens, bringing in the waterers every night.

[Deleted]

Farmer, I use a heated dog water bowl for my chickens from Dec thru Feb. Sure make things easy.

*They do sell heated chicken waterers here though.

[rendezvous]

I have a heated chicken waterer, it works well, can't imagine going without it.

[ninedeer]

I use a heated dog water dish for the chickens,it really helps seeing the temp have been well below zero for the last week.

[farmertrappe]

I'm just too far from electric to use heated bases. Once I stop moving the pens for the winter, I close the pens up better to block the wind. The waterers will usually stay open during the days in all but the worst weather, low teens and below. It just sucks when i space out and don't bring them in for the evening or they are frozen when I bring them in. But hey only like six more weeks of nasty weather...hopefully.

[jeckman]

My turkeys don't even drink the water when i bring it to them this time of year... Drives me insane. But they scoop up plenty of snow...