Well, if they didn't have a death wish they purchase a pump house heater. They come in 120 or 240 volt versions and have a thermostat that cuts in just above freezing.
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Metal buckets with covers?
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Some people are staying away from Google. They prefer other search engines which don't do as much spying on them. Anyone who thinks there is some good in everyone hasn't interviewed enough people.
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With 100 watts constantly on in an insulated 3x4 foot box, the chickens would soon be cooked. Your estimates might be a tad high.
Bob
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We never heated the coop regardless of how cold it got. They survived the -36. The chickens just put their head under their wings and squat on their feet. Make sure they have roosts and are kept dry. For better egg production there should be a light with a timer that is used from fall to spring. Chickens slow down their laying the shorter the dau.
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Not even THAT good! lol
That chicken's gonna be shittin' razor blades before the Winter's over! lol
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The chicken won't like that. She'll think the sun has never gone down...and she won't lay eggs...or as many.
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Its a good idea if you don't want Winter eggs.
Why not teach the chicken how to turn off the lite? But then, you'll need a nite lite for her...so's she doesn't bust her ass gettin' back into the nest. lol
Wait...maybe you can get her a Clapper! Cackle once...lights on. Cackle twice...lights off.
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Why exactly are you tryin' to keep this chicken warm? lol
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Plus...fishtank heaters are not designed to be the primary heat source for the tank. They're designed to supplement the heat provided within the room. They're not designed for continuous operation.
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Chickens are EXTREMELY stupid. lol
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One other caveat for Iggy...
Most aquariums have an aeration system...circulating the water so that the heater can sense the temperature properly. His bucket won't have that. So, more than likely, his heater will shut off quickly...since the heater will only sense the water immediately surrounding the heater. Convection currents within the bucket will be slow, at best.
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Yep, there are people from all over the country posting on that forum. That particular forum is at
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and they talk about guineas and other poultry there.
Anyone who thinks there is some good in everyone hasn't interviewed enough people.
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well if you got to heat um birds an incandesent bulb of 100 watts produces 90 watts heat and 10 watts light.... take kwh cost and go figure...... I say EAT EM now !!!!
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Over the last several years I've been buying old poultry books ranging from the teens through the middle fifties in that time period when real scientific research was being done in commercial poultry production, but before the large confinement operations became the norm. Free range eggs used to be the commercial norm.
Chicken house construction and cold injuries were at that time actually a fairly well known phenomena. Chickens are much cold hardier than people generally give them credit for and are perfectly capable of coping with even sub-zero weather if you set their house up properly for them.
The four most important things to do are:
Protect the birds from wind and drafts. This can cause drastic heat loss they won't be able to cope with.
Don't build the house so tight that condensation becomes a problem. This somewhat conflicts with the first, but it can be done. Chickens have a higher body temperature than humans and they exhale a *lot* of moisture. If it doesn't get vented to the outside it's going to tend to condense inside which can lead to problems and increased cold injuries.
They need liquid water at all times, preferably not ice-water. This can be a problem, but there are means of coping. A lot of folks just take warm water to the hen house several times a day.
If you're not feeding them free choice grains and complete laying ration be sure to give them a good feeding before they go to roost. A belly full of food to digest provides much necessary warmth. If it's really cold and laying is in a slump then try mixing up a wet mash of ground grains and hot water. The water should be fully absorbed and the mixture crumbly but still warm. They'll devour it. Eventually this will plateau out, but it'll get you through a slump.
In really cold locations (Canada and the U.S. border states) choose birds with rose combs (Wyandottes, Chanticleers, and so on) rather than birds with single combs (Rocks, Rhodies, Leghorns, etc.) as the rose combs are less prone to cold injuries. Frost bitten combs and wattles will blow the bottom out of your egg production until they heal up.
Here in North Florida most of this stuff is not needed (I do use an occasional wet mash), but since most of the poultry books of that time period were written by researchers at universities in the Northern states it was discussed a lot.
With a bit of patience you can find many of these books for cheap on EBay.
.....Alan.
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