{"id":8840,"date":"2012-12-05T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/?p=8840"},"modified":"2012-12-05T08:52:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T15:52:16","slug":"keeping-chicken-water-clean-and-warm-in-the-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/keeping-chicken-water-clean-and-warm-in-the-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Chicken Water Clean and Warm in the Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8843\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8843\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/stone-heater-link-post.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8843\" title=\"water is away from the scratching feet and staying fluid\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/stone-heater-link-post-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"water is away from the scratching feet and staying fluid\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/stone-heater-link-post-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/stone-heater-link-post-1024x908.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">water is away from the scratching feet and staying fluid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chickens make a mess of water in open bowls<\/span>. \u00a0Since most heated animal water dispensers are bowls, this makes winter water for chickens more of a challenge. \u00a0<em>When I asked my engineer what he thought of my problem, he came up with a physics class\/concrete workshop for me.<\/em> \u00a0He was the professor; I was the student. \u00a0He&#8217;s a good \u00a0and patient teacher, so I had fun. \u00a0You can read about it on <a href=\"http:\/\/mydbsupply.com\/blog\/how-to-make-a-heavy-duty-chicken-water-heater\/#\" target=\"_blank\">my D&amp;B Supply guest blog this week<\/a>. \u00a0No more dumping muddy water all over the pen, to freeze into an ice rink or risk having chicken feet adhere to it. <strong>\u00a0Everyone should have a chicken water heating stone like mine! \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8841\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8841\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/heating-stone-flock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8841\" title=\"busy Rhode Island Red chickens\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/heating-stone-flock-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"busy Rhode Island Red chickens\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/heating-stone-flock-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/heating-stone-flock-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">busy Rhode Island Red chickens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8845\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/stone-heater-link-post-sunning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8845\" title=\"well fed and hydrated chickens enjoy the winter sun\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/stone-heater-link-post-sunning-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"well fed and hydrated chickens enjoy the winter sun\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/stone-heater-link-post-sunning-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/stone-heater-link-post-sunning-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">well fed and hydrated chickens enjoy the winter sun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chickens make a mess of water in open bowls. \u00a0Since most heated animal water dispensers are bowls, this makes winter water for chickens more of a challenge. \u00a0When I asked my engineer what he thought of my problem, he came up with a physics class\/concrete workshop for me. \u00a0He was the professor; I was the [&hellip;]<\/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\/8840"}],"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=8840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}