Benefits of sand in the hen house
Just wanted to show you the benefits of sand in the hen house. You can follow us on google+.
This is how I will keep my chicken water from freezing.
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thanks for the info… im thinking this might be the next thing to try at
my girlfriends farm..
You’ve convinced me on sand! Great vid
The sand looks like it works great. I wonder if you could get a truck load
of it and spread it out in the chicken yard. Maybe that would help drain
the rain away and keep the smell down out there, too? I suppose the
chickens would scratch through it down to the mud, though. I use pine
shavings in my coop. I figure it will made a great compost or mulch in the
garden, later.
I use pine shavings in their nesting boxes and sand in the hen house. I
love it. I thought about sand in the run part but with all the rain it
would just wash away I bet.
how cold does it get where you live?
Thanks for posting this tutorial up for us. I actually watched this a few
times this last summer while trying to come up with some sorta idea of what
to build but just now got everything together and I built virtually the
identical warmer that you built. It is just now getting down to freezing
temps at night here in southern Indiana. I presently have a 1″ thick piece
of flat limestone being used for a cap as an insulator between the flu pipe
& the actual watering container but I’m having some issues trying to figure
out the bulb size to use or at least the easiest way to control the
temperature. With a 100W bulb, the limestone cap is barely transferring
heat. With a infrared heat bulb (red glow type) being used inside, the
limestone cap reaches almost 455 degrees when checking it with an infrared
temperature probe device. I may try a regular flood lamp bulb next just to
see how that works. I thought about getting a “thermo-cube” to try too.
Just wondering do electric supply have pot or where do you get your pot
cement to sit heat lamp in?
I put my lamp in a fire place flue it is the inter liner in a chimney. then
I put a piece of aluminum on top I had to replace the piece of concrete pad
I had on the top it did not transfer heat good my water was still freezing.
so I put the piece of aluminum.and that did the trick.
Great idea, I bet it could even be simpler than that, an extension cord and
an old lamp or something.. Gonna think about this some more..