{"id":23391,"date":"2014-01-08T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/?p=23391"},"modified":"2014-01-07T21:13:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T04:13:14","slug":"keep-chicken-water-freezing-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/keep-chicken-water-freezing-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Keep Chicken Water from Freezing in the Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

My engineer has devised<\/strong> yet another way to help keep the chicken water from freezing. It is not because his first way didn’t work, but because we needed extra ‘layers’ of sorts for the extreme cold. I wrote about the first chicken water silo foam insulator for the D&B Supply blog<\/a><\/span>. Be sure to follow the first link in the blog to the instructions for making the chicken water heating stone for the first part of the set up. Or you can follow this link post of mine: Keeping Chicken Water Clean and Warm in the Winter<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

I might<\/strong> mention that when it is coldest, it also helps quite a bit to put the watering container inside the coop.<\/p>\n

Since we have<\/strong> more than one chicken pen, and he never does anything the same way twice (that is the way of inventors)<\/em>, he has already revised his method slightly, as you can see in the photos below (click on any photo to enlarge)<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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This metal chicken water silo had a much nicer handle than the first one, so he wanted to use it. Thus, we drilled starter holes, then sawed through the bottom of the bucket to make a slot for it to fit through.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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He tied a long piece of string to the handle and threaded it through the slot to make it easier to get the handle through once he put a bit of foam in the bottom of the bucket.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Then, he put a layer of spray foam in the bottom and quickly put the water silo in place, positioning the handle through the slot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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He put a couple pieces of wood through the handle to keep it from slipping back inside, and propped the whole bucket up on some other boards to let the handle hang through all the way while the foam dried.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"After<\/a>
After spraying in the foam, he placed the spacers to keep the water silo centered. In this photo the foam has already expanded a lot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Only a teeny bit of foam is leaking through the handle slot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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He plans to remove this bucket handle later.To read more details about trimming away the foam and a list of supplies, please visit the D&B Supply blog!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My engineer has devised yet another way to help keep the chicken water from freezing. It is not because his first way didn’t work, but because we needed extra ‘layers’ of sorts for the extreme cold. I wrote about the first chicken water silo foam insulator for the D&B Supply blog. Be sure to follow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19],"tags":[50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}