Preventing Livestock Water Containers From Freezing

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  • @moonbear5929
    @moonbear5929 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    You can stuff the tire with a mixture of straw and manure. As the manure and straw rot together it will create some natural heat all by its self and help keep the water warmer longer. 100% natural and next spring toss the manure in the garden for fertilizer.

    • @keithcampbell7820
      @keithcampbell7820 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Most excellent bro! 👏👏

    • @johnliberty3647
      @johnliberty3647 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I was about to post that and saw you comment so I just thumbs up your post instead. I also was going to say Manure and Straw but it can be anything that mixes nitrogen and carbon.. just shovel out from under the roosting bar.. what ever bedding you use is perfect for inside the tire. The tire was a great idea, I had been burying buckets with manure/bedding around it. The tire makes it a a lot less work so I am glad he made the video.

    • @ClintChilds-m1r
      @ClintChilds-m1r ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Now this is why I read the comments. Thanks for the extra tip that I actually think that would work. 👍

    • @danharris2007
      @danharris2007 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Good idea

    • @kittin9018
      @kittin9018 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Fantastic idea! Cheers 👍

  • @Martin.Wilson
    @Martin.Wilson ปีที่แล้ว +51

    I've had great success filling the tire with rocks. They absorb the heat and slowly radiate it out all night. This system also works great for a planter. Fill the tire with rocks, fill the centre cavity with soil and your done. The soils stays warm all night long and the results are amazing. I had various vegetables planted in tires that yielded almost double what a normal garden plant would.

    • @organicinohio5398
      @organicinohio5398 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ty, very plausible information!

    • @kittin9018
      @kittin9018 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Thanks!..great idea! 👍

  • @karenkaren390
    @karenkaren390 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    You can filll an empty 2 liter soda bottle with salt and water with the lid back on. The salt keeps the bottle from freezing and the weight of the water in the bottle has more momentum than just a ball and allows the bottle to push through if ice starts to form! : )

  • @mountaingoat85
    @mountaingoat85 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    A 50 lb mineral lick tub fits perfectly in a 17" tire. I've been doing this for 10 years.

  • @buffalo7695
    @buffalo7695 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Added tip dig a hole about 18 inches deep under the tire this lets warmer air rise from undergrond to help keep it thawed

  • @richardkeith6822
    @richardkeith6822 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wow this idea makes good common sense! I'm going to give it a try as we do get a little cold weather! God bless you and your family!👍

  • @AandP4dummieslikeme
    @AandP4dummieslikeme 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    AWESOME! Short, sweet and to-the-point! Thank you for posting :-)

  • @mommashiner
    @mommashiner ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I use a soda bottle half fill it with alcohol or cooking oil. Neither of those will freeze and the chickens/wind keep the bottle moving and the water around it a degree or 2 warmer. It won't stop it from Freezing if its cold enuff but it does delay it a bit. Happy chicken keeping

  • @royhoco5748
    @royhoco5748 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    why not put some bubble wrap on the ground under the tire to insulate the bottom of the pan from the cold ground?

    • @thatsmuzik2570
      @thatsmuzik2570 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That’s what I was thinking.

    • @genec3474
      @genec3474 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The earth below creates geothermal warming like a green house.

  • @AnOdeto-uv3cj
    @AnOdeto-uv3cj ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It's revolutionary! My garsh!
    A time saver!

  • @Guildbrookfarm
    @Guildbrookfarm 8 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    That is brilliant. We got temps here in NC that went down to 7 degrees and our chicken water kept freezing. I put a waterer in the mobile coop and buried it in the bedding and it stayed thawed, so I was thinking of building some box with insulation in it. The tire is a much better idea. Thanks for sharing!

  • @1sacoyle
    @1sacoyle 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This might be a good idea for the barn cats and other small animals.

  • @lucky13farms99
    @lucky13farms99 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    You know that's a great idea. Gonna rig one up. Does not freeze here during the day usually but this would probably keep our chicks water liquid over night. We are in mid South Carolina. Maybe fill it with gravel and concrete so it can bank up some heat during the day. Might go all night without freezing.

  • @photina78
    @photina78 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Tractor Supply has the dishes that are designed to fit inside of tires.

  • @timothychung4811
    @timothychung4811 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    What if you build a small green house to cover that? It will block the wind and still generate heat even though one side is compromised for entrance. Do a square house and wrap plastic starting from the center of one side for 360 and extending/overlapping that plastic to the end. At the overlapped end, just spread the plastic apart for the entrance. Use a foot long 2x4 as an entrance stabilizer so the wind will not affect the entrance.

    • @theoriginalkeepercreek
      @theoriginalkeepercreek ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Someone on the tube uses plant heat mats in a small outdoor greenhouse. When he used a meter to figure out cost was 7 cents /day.

    • @theoriginalkeepercreek
      @theoriginalkeepercreek ปีที่แล้ว

      @@poa2.0surface77 God bless you and yours.

    • @organicinohio5398
      @organicinohio5398 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My chickens would peck holes in the plastic.

    • @donnastumme1729
      @donnastumme1729 ปีที่แล้ว

      Am wondering when that heavy wet snow falls 8 "+ deep, as it does here won't the plastic house be crushed down?

  • @richardbritt2281
    @richardbritt2281 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I agree, great idea, I have large truck tires (48 in. tall) that I will put in the pen for bulk solar heating. I have spare tires laying around for the waters. Just had to buy the black stock feeders and a few balls.

  • @RKSingh-pi4dq
    @RKSingh-pi4dq ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is AWESOME!!! Thank you for posting

  • @keithcampbell7820
    @keithcampbell7820 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fantastic information, thank you. 👏👏👏

  • @jamesmanley6721
    @jamesmanley6721 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    pack the tire with damp dead leaves or straw.
    as plants rot they give off warmth.
    In missouri this will help but also is NOT fool proof.

    • @donniephares5978
      @donniephares5978 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good idea I’m going to try this today

  • @jamiemunn9368
    @jamiemunn9368 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I made the same water heater ,works great minus 31 windchill here last day or so in nb canada

    • @Skashoon
      @Skashoon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Windchill doesn’t affect water, only human perception of cold. Water still freezes at 32. It could be 33 degrees with a strong wind producing windchill of 15 degrees, the water won’t freeze.

    • @micahspur
      @micahspur 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@Skashoon wind does affects water, makes freezing happen faster, speeds it up. Counter acts the warming from the Earth in the Sun.

  • @kyleallenburgess
    @kyleallenburgess 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    hell in michigan when we get 20 below winter even the electric heaters freeze solid that might work well as a fall waterer where we average around 30 deg fahrenheit at night 40 in the day.
    during winter we use lp ,gasoline or wood heaters to keep the critters warm

    • @jswhosoever4533
      @jswhosoever4533 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm in Northern Michigan and I don't even bother with all that. I have two waterers. I take one in the house with me every day. It thaws as they're drinking out of the other one and twice per day I switch them out. They're drinking just as much as they do during the warmer months so it's a good working system. I do the same for my rabbits. The goats' buckets too. I just switch them out with a thawed bucket. I don't have a lot of animals so it works for me.

    • @JV-vy7de
      @JV-vy7de 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Yup, here in Minnesota the coop is heated. I walked from the garage to the coop after a shower and some of my hair was frozen, doesn't take long some days.

  • @ken0272
    @ken0272 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Up in the Laurentians North of Montreal, there was a guy who planted two derelict buses on the shore of a lake, and used stacked tires and debris fill for insulation (looked awful), lasted not one winter...he was on the North facing shore, just yards from a 4 mile x 1 mile lake, open to the winds, he had also cut down all the trees around the buses (for wood I assume)...the winds across that lake in February would freeze anything in minutes....he had an idea, of sorts, maybe if he had been on the South facing shore?

  • @sandramcknight3236
    @sandramcknight3236 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    You must not have a dog in the yard. Our dogs would never allow a perfectly good ball to float in water! Great idea! I will give this a try for my chickens!

    • @horsepoorwilson
      @horsepoorwilson 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I know!! I thought of that first thing.

  • @enna4986
    @enna4986 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Ty! We must be inventive and resourceful!

  • @michaeltarno2979
    @michaeltarno2979 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Not a bad recycling method. I generally use my tires for... eh more.. temperate things.. but certainly a thought. Where I am temps unusually are moderate enough that containers only freeze for 1-3 days at a time. Which in that case I just bust them as a walk by. Seeing as my little flock has shrunk for honestly reasons past me.. I've put more time towards caring for them. Thought my cocky rooster still insists on roosting in a tree, next to my coop. 🤣 I even cut the limb off he was roosted on with a sawsall and he managed to find a way into a higher one later but was alone the Hens could no longer get that high and went back to the coop. When temps got sub-zero he preferred the coop with a heat lamp which I ran until it got back to at-least 20 in the night.

  • @DIY-Sally
    @DIY-Sally ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That'd be a great waterer for IN the coop too! :) THANKS for sharing! :)

  • @MsCindyh
    @MsCindyh ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I will be using this as a secondary waterer. Use electric heaters in the pens but let them free range during the day. I had electric ran to my pens.

  • @JoeT.1960
    @JoeT.1960 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I was wondering if you could dig a 2 foot hole under that and the heat from the ground wood keep it warm ?

  • @trishgage9288
    @trishgage9288 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I saw another video where floating a bottle of high salt content water was used to keep the water from freezing. You should check it out. Perhaps, even try placing bags filled with salt water in place of or in with the insulation. That was my first thought when I saw what you did there with the pan and tire. I'm raising hogs, so I'll need a much bigger tire! Thanks for showing this! I'm excited to put all my newfound knowledge to the test. Now I just need to find a video with auto-fill solutions, and how to keep my water hose from freezing. After all this work, I hope my piggy pigs are happy, healthy, and tasty 😉

    • @Animalistic12345
      @Animalistic12345 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Does not work...tried it

    • @thatsmuzik2570
      @thatsmuzik2570 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If you watch it all the way through the guy does say it will freeze over just not as quickly so it saves you running out there as much.

    • @idamcneill8005
      @idamcneill8005 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bury water line to frost line, use toilet tank filler for water level

    • @deborl7278
      @deborl7278 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Animalistic12345 soda bottle with salt water in the water and it will work
      The bottle floats moves around which doesn't allow the water to freeze
      He almost has it.

    • @thatsmuzik2570
      @thatsmuzik2570 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@idamcneill8005 Frost line?

  • @suzannemortimer9752
    @suzannemortimer9752 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    How do you empty this to add clean water, as its a tight fit and heavy?

  • @ronirios3377
    @ronirios3377 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Put a clear roof over it to lengthen light rays and heat it more. Paint tire black. Put tire on sheet piece of insulation, and away from wind...

  • @zonaeastham5206
    @zonaeastham5206 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is very awesome most definitely going to do this for our chickens at my brother's

  • @PrinceCbass
    @PrinceCbass 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    local tire stores will give you free old used tires because it costs them a couple bucks each to dump them in a landfill.

    • @sirrobyn0
      @sirrobyn0 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tires get recycled in most places in the US as they won't decompose in land fill. Tire stores do get charged per-tire for pick up service, they pass that on to customers in the form of a charge, ussually environmental hazard fee because they can not through them in the dumpster.

    • @PrinceCbass
      @PrinceCbass 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@sirrobyn0yes but to clarify, they charge the person who is replacing their tires, not the one picking them up to use them on a farm. I built a greenhouse in the side of a hill and used about a hundred used tires and the tire shop was happy to give them to me because he charged the customer $2 per tire for a disposal fee therefore he put about $200 in his pocket and I got them for free.

    • @universallaw8850
      @universallaw8850 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@PrinceCbassYep that's true I built a shooting range out back and the used tire shop gave me all the tires I wanted for free and even let me pick me tires 😅.

  • @blessedtoquest
    @blessedtoquest 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Dig a 4 ft hole under the tire... geothermal heating. Have to go below frost line

  • @occamsrazor7939
    @occamsrazor7939 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    If you buried the tire, would it work better? I'm new to this, so I don't know much about taking care of livestock. I saw that where someone in Michigan put a bottle of salt water to float around in the fresh water.

  • @jerryrigsit5400
    @jerryrigsit5400 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this idea. There's another idea using a Geo tube. I think both of these ideas would work together well.

  • @John-mh6mi
    @John-mh6mi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you, simple and practical.

  • @angelreyna4630
    @angelreyna4630 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wonder if straw or hay would work stuffed in the tire as well?

  • @teriguerin8371
    @teriguerin8371 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent idea.Thank you

  • @gosia3032
    @gosia3032 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Awesome idea ! Thank you 👍

  • @sheckyfeinstein
    @sheckyfeinstein 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Simple, forthright. Thanks.

  • @hoosierpioneer
    @hoosierpioneer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Seems like insulation inside would insulate the sunlit tire from warming the bowl. I'd rather line with rocks, bricks other heat retainers.

    • @rockjockchick
      @rockjockchick 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me too. He did mention those.

  • @JJE2010MO
    @JJE2010MO 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Super video, thanks for taking the time to share with us!

  • @inthemountainswithmeachum3256
    @inthemountainswithmeachum3256 ปีที่แล้ว

    You know wmaybe some spray foam inside the tire.
    Some bored on the bottom or insulation board on the bottom and throw in one of those. Hot hands and then put the water on top.
    And that should hold that heat in there pretty good. That's what I was going to try this winter.

  • @damnhandy
    @damnhandy ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The text sentences at the bottom of screen vanish to quickly. Solution: fewer words or longer visibility.

  • @supermaniac5
    @supermaniac5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Have a goodyear

  • @rsllife9004
    @rsllife9004 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very Super content, thank for taking the time to share with us+

  • @LLjean-qz7sb
    @LLjean-qz7sb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Do you think you could pack your tire with the leaves from around your property and under the bowl?? Does the dog ever go and try and get his toy back?!?!Lol! Great idea! God Bless!

  • @1956tojo
    @1956tojo 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The only insulation you need is between the ground and the bottom of your pan/bowl... Use rocks or bricks inside the tire as heat sinks... The sun warms the black tire, in turn warming the air and bricks/rocks in the tire... the sun goes down and the bricks/rocks slowly release their heat over night... As long as the sun is at least partially out, the water shouldn't freeze... Every part of that tire and pan/bowl that the sun hits will get warm and filling that tire with insulating material will defeat that purpose more than even leaving it open

  • @toddshook1765
    @toddshook1765 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great tip and idea.

  • @denamathews2363
    @denamathews2363 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is great! 👍👍👍

  • @Skashoon
    @Skashoon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I’d add a dark rock in the center of the pan, something like basalt. Pack the tire with compost.

  • @timothyjdingman
    @timothyjdingman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It’s been 5 years now……does it work? I have to find a way to keep my chicken water unfrozen

  • @catezaida8081
    @catezaida8081 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great idea. What about using straw for insulation? Goodness knows I have that in abundance at my place!

  • @BK-bg6pl
    @BK-bg6pl ปีที่แล้ว

    at -7 water in my coop doesn't freeze what does this do at -20?

  • @ironrose888
    @ironrose888 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great idea…. I wish that I would have kept one of my old tires when I got them replaced.

  • @mylesncindy502
    @mylesncindy502 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You can go to your local tire store and get free tires.

  • @HiItsKris
    @HiItsKris 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This looks like a great idea how has it been working? We just got into pygmy goats and starting to make a plan for winter in Michigan

    • @rockjockchick
      @rockjockchick 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He said it’s been working great so far.

  • @leehyde6610
    @leehyde6610 ปีที่แล้ว

    How cold ????
    30, 20, 10, 0 everything will freeze eventually along with the chickens

  • @lusnorthernhome3410
    @lusnorthernhome3410 ปีที่แล้ว

    For all that matters you could fill the inside with leaves.

  • @cecilveley5722
    @cecilveley5722 ปีที่แล้ว

    I use a heating pad under five gallon self waterer

  • @grannyanniesfarm4972
    @grannyanniesfarm4972 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This would be a great way to keep my dogs from dumping their water over.

  • @jagky
    @jagky 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm going to do the tire trick tomorrow for my chickens

  • @WhatDadIsUpTo
    @WhatDadIsUpTo ปีที่แล้ว

    Burying a 6' section of concrete storm drain on end with a 2" concrete bottom will hold enough water to keep an insulated smaller bowl sitting on top at ground level ice free.

  • @kirkusarelius3365
    @kirkusarelius3365 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Luv it, TY for sharing 👍

  • @Hydeoutranch
    @Hydeoutranch 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    How does it work? I want to try it sick of freezing water lol

  • @leeroyexcavator9149
    @leeroyexcavator9149 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Ok. Gonna try this. Black rubber does get warm for sure. But that rubber water container is a bowl or pan not a pail.. just saying.

  • @ruthspillman546
    @ruthspillman546 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great idea!!! Will use it!!! Tks

  • @edcrutchfield3447
    @edcrutchfield3447 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you 👍🏾

  • @lordkrythic6246
    @lordkrythic6246 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Update on this? How did it turn out for you?

    • @American-OutdoorsNet
      @American-OutdoorsNet  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lord Krythic works well for us here in zone 7.

    • @lordkrythic6246
      @lordkrythic6246 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@American-OutdoorsNet
      Can you be more specific? How well does it keep from freezing? At what temperature have you observed it freezing?

    • @American-OutdoorsNet
      @American-OutdoorsNet  4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@lordkrythic6246 Where we are we rarely get more than 2-3 days below freezing, so it usually doesn't freeze, and if it does it is just a thin layer.

  • @TahoeJones
    @TahoeJones ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Solar powered fountain pump.

  • @citadelchase8858
    @citadelchase8858 ปีที่แล้ว

    Price of eggs today

  • @donnastumme1729
    @donnastumme1729 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please remember micro-organisms that do the composting need air to live & that manure sealed inside the tire will block off their air.... I had an aggressive vine closed off sides of my compost pile and it turns very foul with a different type of very unhealthy micro-bacteria that no one would want by their livestock :(

  • @lisanetgark415
    @lisanetgark415 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    An old crock pot will work too.

  • @2peter1v2
    @2peter1v2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I just bought a water heater designed to keep your chicken water perfect in the winter. Yes, it was electric, so I'm a big spender. The girl's water never froze.

  • @redrustyhill2
    @redrustyhill2 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Easy to do when it only deops to 25 degrees Fahrenheit. Try when its 25 below

  • @elhuddleston17
    @elhuddleston17 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Years ago in Greenfield Missouri in the deep Ozarks my two uncle's married two of my mom's sisters to water cattle in the winter...in a large metal watering trough they would lay a cleaned trunk of a tree about a foot across; they put one end in to the bottom of the tank and the other end would lay out opposite side (remember I was a kid) seems three feet, so instead of chopping ice they could stir the water and it never got frozen .
    Now rancher and farms have electric water tanks for the winter.

    • @billhudson1923
      @billhudson1923 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ".....my two uncles married two of my moms sisters to water cattle in the winter." Really?!! How deep in the ozarks are u???

    • @elhuddleston17
      @elhuddleston17 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@billhudson1923 South/East of 49/71 the

    • @brokendad2222
      @brokendad2222 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I have heard of putting a limb or post in water tanks to keep them from freezing as well.

    • @souperdave2009
      @souperdave2009 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@billhudson1923 lmao

    • @diaperjoeisaped1723
      @diaperjoeisaped1723 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sounds like your aunts got a very RAW DEAL! All they are are Water Bearers??
      This sounds more like the Old Testament times. Do they have to sleep in the barn with the cattle?🐂🐃
      "They are treated well and only beaten when necessary."

  • @suzannefritts813
    @suzannefritts813 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    awesome idea. I am going to try it for my outside dog. :)

  • @holdendiffner1857
    @holdendiffner1857 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm going to try this. You think a handful of ping pong balls would work better than that big ball?

    • @American-OutdoorsNet
      @American-OutdoorsNet  7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I do think that is a good idea but the final result may depend more on your climate. Winter clouds/lack of sun and continuous freezing overnight temps are tough to keep water thawed without electric, but it has been pretty dependable for us.

  • @vickidinsmore2467
    @vickidinsmore2467 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I would think that no insulation would be better, because the warmth from the solar heated black tire would warm the pail and water. Both ways would work I suppose. I'll have to experiment. Thanks for the tire idea.

  • @adamUDavies
    @adamUDavies 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That's pretty cool .
    Do you have problems with coyotes with free-range chickens ?

    • @American-OutdoorsNet
      @American-OutdoorsNet  6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      We've had a few possums get into the coop at night and hit their heads on a bullet. Our dogs tend to keep the Coyotes at a distance.

  • @dy4221
    @dy4221 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for sharing! :D

  • @womanofwazo
    @womanofwazo 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

  • @truthforall1303
    @truthforall1303 ปีที่แล้ว

    Neat idea 👍🇬🇧

  • @gordbaker896
    @gordbaker896 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great idea. Wind-Chill only affects living tissue. put styrofoam under bottom of tire and pan.

    • @j.chriswatson6847
      @j.chriswatson6847 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ummmm. No. Wind can cause freezing water, soil, mulch, pretty much anything that retains water, if the right combination of wind speed and real temperatures exists.

    • @gordbaker896
      @gordbaker896 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@j.chriswatson6847 Um NO.

  • @cbzombiequeen58
    @cbzombiequeen58 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The problem I have with open waterers is , baby chickens drawn. I free range too, and I think its important for babies and moms to run around and eat from the forest ground.

    • @prayerangel1
      @prayerangel1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I've used this very same waterer~same pan in a tire~for the past 13 yrs and never had a single chick drown in it. Also use a heated dog bowl in the winter months for the chickens and never had a frostbit wattle resulting from it. Baby chicks usually aren't drinking from the waterers at all if they have a mama, as all their moisture comes from the bugs and such that they eat.

    • @kp76333
      @kp76333 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I had a chick fall in and drown, I secured a piece of wire mesh(squares large enough for their beak) over it, never happened again.

  • @wheepingwillow24u17
    @wheepingwillow24u17 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    GET A SUBMERSIBLE DEICER. I JUST BOUGHT ONE MYSELF. TC

  • @k80jr
    @k80jr 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good video

  • @tme9384
    @tme9384 ปีที่แล้ว

    Chickens are livestock?
    I had no idea.

    • @yep-sb4uf
      @yep-sb4uf ปีที่แล้ว

      They are where it matters, tax forms.

    • @universallaw8850
      @universallaw8850 ปีที่แล้ว

      🐔. Chickens aren't livestock and we don't pay tax here in Washington Co. Missouri for our yard bird.

  • @northernkarma9296
    @northernkarma9296 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like it!

  • @Keiths1234
    @Keiths1234 ปีที่แล้ว

    🙏🙏🙏🙂♥️👍

  • @mrodriguez5259
    @mrodriguez5259 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good idea

  • @truebuldog
    @truebuldog 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A heated dog bowls the answer they never freeze and they work like you wouldn't believe!

    • @dansbarbershop
      @dansbarbershop 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Spoken like someone who's never paid an electric bill in their life!

    • @truebuldog
      @truebuldog 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dansbarbershop
      Well they make some that use very little electricity. The blue ones I have aren't so bad.
      How much electricity do you think they use? Not Much..
      On a update,
      Mine did freeze up when the temp was like. O1' last week or so.
      That was after days of it.
      It was record cold all over the Country.
      But in normal North East winters I'm Usally good all winter.

    • @truebuldog
      @truebuldog 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dansbarbershop
      Spoken like someone that lives off the grid..lol

    • @hobbyhermit66
      @hobbyhermit66 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      . . until the cord breaks inside, or the thermostat breaks.

  • @ioanstef1983
    @ioanstef1983 ปีที่แล้ว

    Styrofoam Lid To Cover
    +
    Pulley
    +
    Chickens On A Standing Plate
    _____________________________

  • @micahspur
    @micahspur 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dig a hole under it couple ft deep. And off course seal it. Think of a water meter.

    • @bkershaccount
      @bkershaccount 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      what does the hole do?...trap warmer air?

    • @micahspur
      @micahspur 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bkershaccount The ground is where the supply of warmth is, and it will rise and warm the bottom of the water pan. Unless your in a area where there is permafrost, then i guess you could dig the hole below that line.

  • @monicamayer977
    @monicamayer977 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bubble wrap is allot of money

  • @debbietucker8398
    @debbietucker8398 ปีที่แล้ว

    Eddy Family Farm

  • @oakmaiden2133
    @oakmaiden2133 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think a tire would degrade in the sun and shed unhealthy components into your coop soil. I would never keep an old tire around in my yard or garden.

  • @ooigfgnnkhjjnc
    @ooigfgnnkhjjnc ปีที่แล้ว

    Now they have a heated toilet to drink from!

  • @jeremystewart1994
    @jeremystewart1994 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    just out some anti freeze in the water no big deal

    • @dianeveilleux6452
      @dianeveilleux6452 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      you are an idiot

    • @shermdog6969
      @shermdog6969 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I hope you're joking and you're not that stupid.

    • @mbsloop1272
      @mbsloop1272 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@murldewaynegreen deal with the neighbor and spare the poor dog, rat shot or rock salt work well when it penetrates the skin, but doesn't kill the dog!!

    • @girlonlaptop
      @girlonlaptop 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@murldewaynegreen geez, get a hobby other than killing innocent dogs are just pick up the poop yourself and be a good human being...your neighbor being an idiot does not mean you should be one too.

    • @sheckyfeinstein
      @sheckyfeinstein 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jeremy Stewart I always imbibe a cup or two of the antifreeze myself before trying it on animals. It's that sweet tooth o' mine.