How To Keep Chicken Water Nipples From Freezing

woody1

Chicken watering nipples, that is. I h2o my chickens outside the coop to keep the water mess, outside. The h2o is outside the coop proper only in an enclosed covered run. Last wintertime I believe it hit nigh 20 below, ordinarily down to 0 or so. I have my waterline rut taped and a metal saucepan and valve (float) and then it's automatically kept filled. The bucket sits on a homemade heater. The bucket may have a skim of ice on it on the coldest mornings. For continuous extreme common cold it gets a heat lamp over it. Then..after this long story, how tin can I convert this setup to utilize nipples? How can I continue them from freezing up. Near of the gear up-ups I see apply plastic buckets or pipe and I don't see how I can keep that stuff heated. Whatever help would be appreciated. Thanks and regards, Woody

LakeMomNY

Peradventure this would work with yous organization:

Switch to horizontal nipples in your bucket, drop in a submergible stock tank heater when it gets cold.

PrplHartJarHead

Chicken watering nipples, that is.

Lol! Good thing yous antiseptic that question, I had a lot of responses queued up in the 13-1/ii yr quondam brain that is trapped in this nearly fifty year erstwhile body.

Thanks for the laugh!

woody1

Peradventure this would work with yous system:
Switch to horizontal nipples in your saucepan, drop in a submergible stock tank heater when it gets cold.

After I posted my question, I've done more reading re: horizontal nipples and I believe you may exist right. At present to get some. Cheers for the respond. Regards, Woody

vehve

I was going to suggest rubbing vaseline on them, but evidently I got the wrong idea from the topic as well...

Sabz

The horizontal nipples won't freeze why exactly? I don't get information technology. Because in that location isn't the last piffling drib of water that "hangs" on the nipples and so it will not freeze as much?!

bluedogsonly

I currently use 1 lt bottles with a nipple screwed into the chapeau and a pigsty in the bottom to fill it. Works great until information technology gets actually common cold, they do thaw pretty quick in the dominicus though. When I abound up I'yard going to coffin a l gal drum with a float valve and run a re-circulation pump and so the h2o is e'er slowly flowing through the lines. During the winter the warm 55 degree water flowing will hopefully continue it from freezing and during the summer the cool 55 caste h2o should increase water intake. Seems like a win-win. I was planning on using a solar powered pump to keep maintenance downwards. I'll have a big inline filter to help keep the nipples from bottleneck. I call back it'll be keen whenever I settle to someplace more permanent. Simply one of my ideas.