Water base heaters have worked wonderfully for us. We have an eight gallon galvanized waterer in the main poultry yard and my tractors have two gallon waterers in each of them. We string extension cords through PVC pipe and hang them high to keep from tripping over them. The PVC also protects them from the weather.
I don't know this for sure, but I suspect the heated bases pull a lot less electricity than heat lamps, not to mention they are much safer,
I sometimes hear about putting fake eggs in the nest to help interest the girls in using a different nest. When I go to eBay, what am I looking for? Does it work? I got four hens all sharing same nest.
Patrick
On Jul 21, 2014 8:21 AM, "'woody@McGeheesfarm.com' woody@mcgeheesfarm.com [CHICKENS-101]" <CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
All my poultry raisin' buddies... (and anyone else too) I want your opinion. I know it's summer, and hot but I'm already thinking about this winter and how much I hate having to go out in the cold and feed/water, break the ice in the waterers etc. I'm slowly buying large volume feeders for each pen so that I can feed when it's not 20 degrees etc. however, waterers are just too expensive to get large volume waterers for each pen. My first thought was fish tank heaters. That would keep the water from freezing. However, then I began considering putting heat lamps over each waterer. Then I thought about whether or not just putting a heat lamp warming the whole pen would work at all? That would warm the water and the birds, but would it warm enough to prevent freezing of the water?
Woody McGeHeeSent from my iPhone
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