Keep your poultry warm over the winter

 For people like us who keep animals in warm homes, cold is a serious problem. If the temperature drops too much, the water will freeze. While some animals can break the ice with breathing and a hot tongue or beak, these resources are limited in their usefulness. When temperatures plummet, dehydration can be a major problem for rearing poultry. One solution - chicken waterer heated base - is an easy way to provide water for your flock. Today we will look at the types of water heater available for our chickens.


It may be fun to watch them - they fill their mouths and then tilt their heads back - but water is an absolutely essential part of their daily diet. In fact, adult chickens will drink several glasses of water a day. Put a group of 20 chickens together and they may drink as much water per day as a cow.

In most cases, you need to keep an eye on their temperature and how much power they consume. Excluding home-made ones, there are three different types of heated chicken waterers to choose from.

Hanging waterers
These drinkers contain a basin with one or more openings in the bottom that only open when the chickens use them. These are usually clean, tidy and very hygienic. Depending on the valve, these drinkers also avoid puddles of water dripping and freezing beneath them. However, certain parts are more likely to freeze.

Gravity-fed water dispensers
They work on the same principle as automatic water dispensers, but with one main difference: the method of distribution. These jugs are usually attached to an open pan (also called a "waterer") from which your chickens will drink. Because they are open, you run the risk of the chicken contaminating the pan. Drinkers can also be easily interrupted.

Open pots or saucer drinkers
These are usually pans that sit on a heated base. They carry the same risk of contamination as gravity drinkers and require more scrubbing than automatic drinkers. Lifting them off the floor on a heated base will help reduce cloudy water.

The ideal heated poultry drinker base depends entirely on your flock. Just make sure it is durable so that the container does not break or crack even if the water freezes. Plastic drinkers are durable and do not break easily. Galvanised metal also holds up well in extremely cold conditions but freezes faster than plastic. Both can be found in internal or external heaters, although plastic heaters usually have a heating element in the base.

An obvious benefit of hanging waterers is that you can lift them off the ground and your chickens are less likely to roost on them (which means less poo). Raising the water from the ground reduces the chances of your flock pooping in it. However, ground-based drinkers don't have to be messy. Drinkers set on heated mats can still reach the desired height and be just as clean as hanging heated chicken drinkers.

You should check the heated water bowl for chickens at least once a day. This way you can top up the containers when you see they need it, and you can see if they need cleaning. Your chickens may have made a mess of the drinkers and you will want to clean them out as soon as possible.

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