Winterizing question..

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 10:01 pm

Would love to have solar for the barn. On nights like tonight makes me glad for every effort we made to make the barn as comfortable as possible.

KimChick · Post by **KimChick** » Fri Dec 16, 2016 6:59 pm

baronrenfrew wrote:QR_BBPOST Plastic 3 gallon: that will freeze and break. No heating cable will stop it as the thermal mass will freeze somewhere. Or sooner or later the heating cable will fail. I tried galvanised heated mounts for the waterer to sit on...piece of junk.

I like Al's idea: from Princess Auto rubber pots and hammer out the frozen ice with a rubber mallet.

Right now I use old cooking pots and hit them on the big stones in the stone wall of the barn.

Other option is a heated dog bowl.

I'll let you know how it goes.