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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on December 16, 2008, 04:01:20 AM
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hippywife (1000+ posts) Mon Dec-15-08 08:30 PM
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Keeping water for chickens from freezing.
This looks like an innovative approach. I like that over a store bought solution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a05MZp7W4A
Anyone else got any really clever ideas?
It's one of those youtube video thingamajigs.
There's talking on it, no faces to be read, and so I have no idea what it is.
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cali (1000+ posts) Mon Dec-15-08 08:35 PM
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1. I'm low tech. I just bring hot water out to the barn
franksolich is high tech, buying chicken at the grocery store.
BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Mon Dec-15-08 08:36 PM
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2. Necessity is the mother of invention. He is a very clever guy. Well spoken.
panader0 (1000+ posts) Mon Dec-15-08 08:39 PM
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3. I used to keep a lightbulb in the henhouse when I had chickens
MineralMan (606 posts) Mon Dec-15-08 08:50 PM
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4. That would work very well..
One thing you might want to consider is using an appliance bulb, like the ones in refrigerators. They have a much longer life than the typical bulb. They're just 20 or 40 watts, but that would work just as well.
The use of the flower pot is brilliant. It would also keep that area of the enclosure a bit warmer, as well.
Of course, I'm not sure how well it would work in the -15 degrees we'll have here tonight, but I'll bet it would keep the water liquid.
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Chickens are the most stupid animals. They will literally freeze to death outside rather than walk inside, if you let them.
We raised chickens when I was a kid. Hundreds of fryers. In the winter the chicken coop had heating lamps inside. Regardless of the cold, it was warm in there, and stunk to high heaven. My Grandparents had been raising chickens since the 1910s. with the same technique.
DUmmies...reinventing teh wheel so you don't have too.
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It's one of those youtube video thingamajigs.
There's talking on it, no faces to be read, and so I have no idea what it is.
You're not missing much. Some of the talk is thanking the chicken for the egg and then apologizing to the chicken for being in it's way with the camera.
Then he describes an insulated self-feeder thingy on an over turned flower pot on top of a 60w bulb.
I'm like you, I get chicken at the supermarket, but I wouldn't mind living on a little farm, with chickens. I'd love to not have to depend on supermarket food.
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Chickens are the most stupid animals. They will literally freeze to death outside rather than walk inside, if you let them.
We raised chickens when I was a kid. Hundreds of fryers. In the winter the chicken coop had heating lamps inside. Regardless of the cold, it was warm in there, and stunk to high heaven. My Grandparents had been raising chickens since the 1910s. with the same technique.
DUmmies...reinventing teh wheel so you don't have too.
They'll supply their own heat as long as they are in an enclosed space protected from the wind, and no bigger than it needs to be to hold them. They also won't die of thirst if they don't have constant drinking water 24/7. And a well-used coop does smell pretty fierce, no lie there. Not anywhere near as bad as a cattle feed lot or a pigpen, though.
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They'll supply their own heat as long as they are in an enclosed space protected from the wind, and no bigger than it needs to be to hold them. They also won't die of thirst if they don't have constant drinking water 24/7. And a well-used coop does smell pretty fierce, no lie there. Not anywhere near as bad as a cattle feed lot or a pigpen, though.
The only arguement is that a coop is an enclosed space. One I had to clean every Saturday morning as a kid.
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They sell a thing that looks like a pie tin that has a heating element in it. You just put the water fount on top of it, and voila!, no frozen water. How hard is that?
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The only arguement is that a coop is an enclosed space. One I had to clean every Saturday morning as a kid.
Ours was built out of odds and ends by a previous landowner, mostly old military packing crates as far as I could tell when we finally tore it down. Too uneven to clean with anything finer than a rake, really, so that wasn't too bad. Plus I don't think we ever had more than 50 of the winged morons at one time anyway.
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The only arguement is that a coop is an enclosed space. One I had to clean every Saturday morning as a kid.
But you were probably paid for it, right?
Most farm and ranch kids didn't get paid for ordinary chores, such as herding cattle and ploughing fields, but I grew up under the impression that a chicken coop was "special," and so one was paid for it, a couple of bucks, five bucks, whatever depending upon whether pre-1977 or after inflation skyrocketed.
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But you were probably paid for it, right?
Most farm and ranch kids didn't get paid for ordinary chores, such as herding cattle and ploughing fields, but I grew up under the impression that a chicken coop was "special," and so one was paid for it, a couple of bucks, five bucks, whatever depending upon whether pre-1977 or after inflation skyrocketed.
Along with my other chores. Now, when I was 14 I went to work for the neighbor during the summers in the hayfields. My Dad, and his Dad, believed you didn't work for your family until you knew how to work. SO, I worked about 20 miles from home, lived in the bunkhouse with the other ranch hands, and made (in 1982) $500.00 a month.
I ran a hay-rake and the slide stacker, did general matenance on the tractors, and when we needed to, helped drive the cattle from the south meadows to the north ones. We fixed fence, branded cows, and everything else needed on the ranch.
Once school started I was back a home, doing the chores for my Dad, making $20.00 a week. Ten dollars a week went for my school stuff (gas to drive to school, lunch other than school lunch, supplies, etc.). The other ten was mine to spend.
I took an after school job to make extra money to go to the movies with my girlfriend, more gas to drive around, and boot-leg beer across the border of South Dakota.
I enlisted in the Army and left for basic training three days after graduation. I have been working since then, including while I went to college.
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Man, dutch, sir, you fared better than the kids with whom I grew up.
They didn't get paid for any chores, or an allowance.
Cleaning the chicken coop was the only exception.
Even de-balling steers wasn't something they got paid for.
However, it does seem to me their parents ultimately paid for their high-school vehicles, the gasoline, and somesuch, and gave them $$$ for dates and other events.
But it also seems to me they had to ask for it; it wasn't automatically given.
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Man, dutch, sir, you fared better than the kids with whom I grew up.
They didn't get paid for any chores, or an allowance.
Cleaning the chicken coop was the only exception.
Even de-balling steers wasn't something they got paid for.
However, it does seem to me their parents ultimately paid for their high-school vehicles, the gasoline, and somesuch, and gave them $$$ for dates and other events.
But it also seems to me they had to ask for it; it wasn't automatically given.
Oh, yeah. I did ok. But forget asking the old man for money if I was short. I had to live with-in my budget, no free-bees.
Mom, of course, was always good for a buck or two if I needed it, but I always wound up working extra for her at the end of the week to make up for it.
"Honey," she would say, "Can you do me a favor and clean out the garage today?"
"Well, Mom, Tom and I were gonna go fishing."
"Oh, ok. I guess I can do it after I do your laundry."
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"I'll do it before I go, Mom."
"Thank's dear."