Good idea, thanks. Sounds like something I could do. Susan in Conyers
From: Kate Lorenzen starmstbl@dwave.net>
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Sent: Friday, March 1, 2013 9:34 AM
Subject: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Two questions...........
I took a shovel, dug a very narrow trench at least it's metal shovel-part deep from the main electrical source (my house) out to the "coop" which is actually a part of a horse shelter-barn here, and ran UG (underground grade wire) through PVC pipe sections (they're cheap, less than $2 per 12 footer) that I glued together as I went along (easier to pull the wire through them a section at a time that way), then just filled the trench back in again. Running it through PVC insured both many many more years of the UG wiring's durability *plus* made it all that more easily replaceable should that time ever chance to come -- I'd just have to hook the new wiring onto the disconnected old wiring and pull it through the PVC.......no muss no fuss of having to dig anything back up and bury it again.
And of course hooked it up to a flip-covered GFCI outlet in the shelter - in my case a 4-outlet one because I run lights both in the horses stalls and the coop, as well as in the wintertime a floating water-trough heater (conveniently located inside the building - saves tons of electricity $$
compared to being outside instead), as well as a heated dog-water bowl for the chickens' winter watering.
Kate in WI
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