Chickens: Wintertime Watering Tips
>11 January 2010
Here are a few quick tips for watering your chickens through the freezing months of winter…
- Give your chickens very warm water when the temps outside are freezing to ensure that they are able to drink as much as possible before the water freezes over.
- If watering using glass containers, make sure that you get the jar warm before adding warm water to it! If the glass is cold when you add the warm water to it… I’m sure you can guess what will happen… a broken glass. Yes, I admit it, I had to learn this the hard way. I had my blonde moment, okay?
- You can also make your own waterers (and feeders) out of plastic buckets!! Check it out HERE, and another one HERE.
Got any other tips to share? I’d love to know how you keep your chickens, or any other animals for that matter, watered through the freezing winter!
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They need fresh water all the time. If they are eating the need the fluid or they get problems and die. =(
http://www.thetreeofliberty.com/vb/showthread.php?t=75986
Here is a chat room thread addressing chickens and cold weather. I remember my parents keeping a metal coned shop light a couple feet up to keep the chickens and water warm.It looked like tp://www.lowes.com/pd_203219-1373-FL-302NPDQ8_4294857041_4294937087?productId=3122295&pl=1¤tURL
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Thanks for the link to the chat. I’m enjoying it right now!
We have a movable coop that we move around on the garden area during the winter and my husband has made a platform attached to the outside of the coop that holds a five gallen bucket of water. A flexible pipe is attached to the bucket and on the other end is the little cup for the chickens to drink out of. For the freezing nights he’ll just bring out a 2L bottle of water with a drinkable nozzle out in the mornings.
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