Comments on: Chickens: Wintertime Watering Tips http://newlifeonahomestead.com/2010/01/chickens-wintertime-watering-tips/ Our Family's Journey To Self Sufficiency Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:33:47 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sarah B http://newlifeonahomestead.com/2010/01/chickens-wintertime-watering-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-7904 Sarah B Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:47:32 +0000 http://newlifeonahomestead.com/?p=3661#comment-7904 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. 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.

]]> By: Kendra at New Life On A Homestead http://newlifeonahomestead.com/2010/01/chickens-wintertime-watering-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-7847 Kendra at New Life On A Homestead Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:31:51 +0000 http://newlifeonahomestead.com/?p=3661#comment-7847 kattmaxx- Thanks for the link to the chat. I'm enjoying it right now! kattmaxx-

Thanks for the link to the chat. I’m enjoying it right now!

]]> By: kattmaxx http://newlifeonahomestead.com/2010/01/chickens-wintertime-watering-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-7845 kattmaxx Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:48:03 +0000 http://newlifeonahomestead.com/?p=3661#comment-7845 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&currentURL 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&currentURL

]]> By: alison http://newlifeonahomestead.com/2010/01/chickens-wintertime-watering-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-7829 alison Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:44:07 +0000 http://newlifeonahomestead.com/?p=3661#comment-7829 Buy a heated dog water bowl and run a power cord to the chicken house. They need fresh water all the time. If they are eating the need the fluid or they get problems and die. =( Buy a heated dog water bowl and run a power cord to the chicken house.
They need fresh water all the time. If they are eating the need the fluid or they get problems and die. =(

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