Simple Trick to HELP your CHICKENS & other livestock during the Winter
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We use the salt water bottles, but only half to 3/4ths full so they float around the top better. I used electrical tape around the lids on the thicker juice and Gatorade bottles to be sure they don't leak. Our bottles have lasted 5 years so far. We use kiddie pools for our ducks and chickens and one bottle per pool works. If we have more than 3 days of below freezing temps, I dump the water out of the kiddie pools at night. The bottles work during those times better in the day when it's above 15°F because the water is so shallow in the pools. We also use the bottles in our goat, sheep, dog, barn cat and cow water tanks & buckets. None of the animals have messed with them and they work to keep the ice out enough the animals can drink almost all winter for the weather we get here in north eastern AL. I take the bottles out during spring, summer and fall and set them on a shelf during warmer weather until I need them again when it gets cold. Hope that helps.
@Nick Jones it works until there are 3+ days of weather that doesn't get above 25ish...to help get another day or two, use black containers, wrap in some sort of insulation. 5-gal buckets in tires stuffed with straw, stock tanks with flakes of straw or hay stood around them and then tarps or plastic of some sort wrapped and tied or gorilla taped around the flakes & tarp to hold it against the tank sides. We have a tank water heater in the main one that works always. For a diy smaller version tank heater, we have used the old style 40-75 watt light bulbs with a ceramic light socket like you use in a closet inside a cinder block and put buckets and tubs of water on top the cinder block where it wouldn't be rained on, securing the bucket so it couldn't be spilled - you need electricity & have to run extension cords with this and wrap the plugs with plastic, but this worked with extended single to teen digit temps - if only using lights, it worked best with smaller capacity water containers (2-3 gallon). In all the containers we put a heat source under or in, we found if we also floated the salt water jugs, they never froze and then it didn't matter what gallon capacity. It was nice to not have to haul water when we discovered that. We had a solar battery thing we hooked one light to on one tank where we couldn't reach with cords & when we lost power for a few days. Hope that helps with more ideas. I hate hauling water in icy weather, so we've tried a lot of things, but these are the ones that worked best for us in the coldest weather we get. :-)
I literally laughed out loud when the ducks got to the pond. That was so special.❤❤❤❤
If you take a look at what Chad at Adler Farms has done in trough water, he puts a 2x4 in it that you can hit with a hammer or something that will break the ice easily. The wood floats and does not freeze.
The driveway cement in front of the house i did a lot of my growing up on was added long after the fact between 2 retaining walls. There was a corner and edge which was dipped a little and, if we got cold weather and if there was water puddled in that corner it turned to ice. We kids decided one year that slip-sliding around was fun enough to add water for strength, depth, and breadth of that ice patch. We did it a shallow layer at a time throughout a couple of days to arrive at solid, slick, clear ice. My mother was NOT positively impressed when she discovered that the ice patch was expanding to the top of the 2 cement steps leading into the house. That was the last ice patch but, it sure was fun. - We did survive our childhoods, and sometimes im sure only by the Grace of God.
Love the sound of that little baby goat.
Your eldest is strong and walks like you, Mike. She definitely has some of her momma's loveliness, kindness, and strength as well...I just really noticed her "walking gait" after following her dad around with chores in this video. (I'm a dancer (& singer)...it is a thing we notice). 💕
Over the past weekend we had 8+ inches of snow, lost power for 48 hours, and then our water went out. Last night we had some ice and more snow. But today it was really cold. We are still blessed beyond measure. Hope you all are safe and warm. God Bless You All. Greetings from Kentucky.
I break the ice on the edge of our pond for my ducks and geese. They seem to appreciate it. I always worry that the slick ice will injure their feet and legs.
Good trick with salt water bottles. Never heard of it before. Baby goat is so frisky and cute. 💞😺
That was fun watching Josiah trying to make a snow angel. That was so fun to see Cody play with you guys. It was funny to see the ducks have trouble with the ice on the pond. Thanks for the trick with the waterers. I'll have to try it. It's -9F this morning so we have plug in water buckets for the animals in the barn. Any water outside freezes solid. With the wind chill it's -23F. Brrrr! How is Randy doing?
We need to update everyone in a video about Randy. He is doing so much better than expected. We will give more details later.
Just enjoy watching your adorable farm animals!!!!!!! They put a smile on my face!!!🥰
When Lacy was talking about the storm of 2002 and hearing what she thought was thunder and I herd the goat and at first I thought it was Mike saying noooo 😭😭😭 to funny
I have a heated water bucket that I use for the goats. I don't worry too much about the water freezing here in southeast Kentucky. It doesn't stay cold long enough (I used to live in Canada). My horse knows how to break the ice in the creek, and I will break the ice for the chickens. I usually only have to deal with the inconvenience for a couple days before it's warming up again.
After living down there above Raleigh, for 5 years, the biggest issue I found was that the roads aren't treated well. But up here in NH we are used to that kind of weather, and they don't pretreat roads. They sand and salt if icy, and if just snow, they plow before they treat. I use black rubber bowls from TSC for my waters for animals. You can usually just turn them over and kick the ice out.
I have a question about the black rubber bowls from TSC. I have looked at them when I first got chickens, I’m a reader so I read the labels on my stuff the animals etc. I had breast cancer 6 years ago and as I was reading about these bowls I saw there was a warning on them due to possibly causing cancer . I know I’m not going to be drinking from them but my chickens do and then we eat their eggs.
Does anyone else worry about things like this or am I just making life harder than it needs to be.
Thank you for anyone that will respond to this post.
Blessings from NE Mississippi, where it was a frigid 19 degrees this morning 🥶
Spring is coming soon, God bless
I wonder if that trick will work in really cold conditions? -34c which is -29f up here in Ontario today, not easy to film my episodes as the cameras struggles, the batteries freeze and my face freezes too 😆 and the water bowls for the geese freeze in 2 hrs. I use heated poultry waterers in the octagonal 7 coop chicken house though so no issue there. Lots of neat ideas you two have, keep them coming. Cheers, Chad.
fyi those hand warmers sold for hunters? they will keep your camera warm enough to work for a bit. I've never tried it in -34 so good luck.
Yeah I don't think the salt water bottles will help you guys in the frigid north. lol
@@MikeTheFitFarmer I use a heated dog dish. It works pretty well for a small backyard flock.
Y’all make me sick with all that snow I’m so jealous lol I live in south ga we only get snow one in a blue while I love snow it’s so beautiful too me yall have a great Day. Ihope you know I’m just playing with y’all I would never intentionally hurt your feelings. Ilove watching your channel and mike I’m going too tell my husband about about the salt water bottle and ty Lacey about the salt I didn’t know that oh yea the baby goat is adorable so are your children hugs and prayers and much love ❤️
I’ve been praying for Randy. Any updates? You have quite the dance moves!!! 🕺🏻🔥
We will do a full update in a video but he is doing much better than expect.
Hi..... Mike Dickson and Lacie nice to see you love watching your videos, thank you for showing your video homestead chickens duck goose farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐥🐕🐐🐝🌱🌺🌹🌿🌻🌼🌸🍀🌷🏡🎥👍👍👍
Thanks for walk-a-long with you today! Stay well, be blessed.
OMG! I didn't know I needed to see ice skating ducks today, but I'm so glad I did! 🤣 Poor babies. Ice makes really neat sounds.
a little fun and joy in th middle of all those bad news are refreshing, thanks !
Been watching for an update on your injured friend... continued prayers 🙏🏻
You have a beautiful loving family blessings to all! ❤️
The geese on the pond are a hoot! Then there is the way too cute kid....I mean the goat ;)
I have a low plantar box that holds three gallons of water that I put Inside the chicken coop. I put the red heat lamp over it and a sand box. That keeps the water liquid and gives the chickens somewhere to warm up if they get cold or wet. They love it.
LOL - I’m in the far NW of NC…I got 15+ inches from this storm…have been snowed in since last Sunday - am hoping to be able to get down my mountain by coming Monday. Only have chickens but none of them want to come out in the deep snow - and is toss have 4-6 inches LOL
Praise to G-d no power outage this storm…. Was waiting on getting a wood stove installed just before this storm, hopefully will get it in before the next :)
So you can't be too far from Piney Creek? I (Lacie) grew up spending a lot of time up there with my family on the New River.
Ain't nothin' like those beckoning calls to motivate ya ❤️
And o those crunchy sounds of walking in winter ( especially in Indiana)
Our ducks don't mind snow at all. Even when the chickens won't come out of their house the ducks want to go out and play.
I didn't know about the salt water in the bottle. Thanks for sharing this information. God Bless.
That goose is historical! Sailed and her ducks!,
I have missed so many of your videos I'm glad I'm here to watch this one good to see you all together
Hello Mike, It's come round to the cold season again. Have you tried putting a childrens' ball or football to float on the water to stop it freezing? If you can't afford to use all that salt or don't want to, then this is a good way. The movement of that round ball on the water surface stops any freezing so your animals can drink or maybe even swim if you throw a couple of footballs on the pond. Save throwing rocks out there when it could be dangerous for you, footballs will be safer. This works in my part of the UK in winter where we often get real snowfalls and icy weather. Love & blessings. (My first message went astray before I could send it) 😁😁
James Brown ,eat your heart out! Smooth moves!
No, I have never tried the salt water bottle thingy>>>>BUT!!!!! I will now!! Thank you!! What a cool and nifty trick!! My goats water was frozen solid today in the 1/2 of a 55 gallon barrel trough!
You are lucky with the weather seldom going below freezing!! It has been 9 degrees with a wind chill of -2 here for the past few days.....and I am further South than you are>>>>>Missouri Ozarks here>>>Zone 6b. We are having a very cold winter this year. And it is good in that it will kill all the ticks and chiggers; it is NOT fun because I am living in an RV this winter!!! Talk about freezing your butt off! No way to have wood heat, but next year I will NOT be caught out like this!! Next winter I WILL have under pinning around this RV and I WILL run a hot air vent from a wood stove underneath the RV to warm things up, with possibly a way to vent it inside. Should not be that hard to set that up.
My goat that is pregnant STILL has not had her kids yet!! Her milk bag is full, Full, FULL>>>>>wish she would come on>>>>maybe she is going to wait until it is just a bit warmer>>>>which would be VERY nice!
Take good care of each other and carry on>>>>the baby goat was adorable>>>>they always are!!
Peace and blessings to all of you!!
Thank you for the info about pink salt!
You can also add a SMALL amt of salt actually IN their waterers (in the water itself). The minerals are fine for them and it also helps to keep from freezing. Not an excessive amt.
Something else I learned is for males (like goats and sheep) is that they have sensors on top of their heads that make them a little more aggressive and cause them to buck more. The rule of thumb for the males is chin scratches only, never on top of the head. With children around, something to consider.
Love your vids! So neat to see you guys grow and flourish on your homestead. Beautiful job! Ty for all of your information.
Good to know.
Love the goats my dad had three goats on his farm they were to cute
I've never seen this method (which I have seen lots) but u better believe I'm gona give it a shot. Never hurts right...as long as it doesn't hurt the animals.
I do the salt water bottle for my chickens. And you are right some water will still freeze but not the entire bowl which helps a lot .
I used a crock pot on the warm setting for water
That is an excellent trick!
Thank you!
Simple, inexpensive, and effective. Great pro tip! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you. Great trick for frozen water.
Cody is so stinking cute!!
Gerat to meet yell, I live in Gastonia. Yes, I am a dam Yanke! Just checking out your channel for the first time.
Somebody left their coffee cup with the mama goat 🐐 and her baby 😆 lol
Oh wow! Good to know about that salt!!
Northern Wisconsin here its 15 below 0 with a wind chill of 35 below 0 stay safe yall
Ughhh that is so cold.
Thanks for the info on dyed pink Himalayan salt👍
Here in Michigan it's a balmy 20ﾟ with 2" of snow supposed to get down to 5 tonight.
Good to see you and your family. Hope your friend that was hurt is okay? I have used the salt in water bottles a few years back in a bird bath. Unfortunately, I was living in Nebraska and well....winter there is brutal. So, it didn't work in that harsh environment. Or maybe the water was too shallow for it to work. Thank you for sharing Homestead life. God bless and keep you and yours.
Haha good exercise for the ducks
Laci, I am so glad you mentioned how to tell about the pink salt. It is late right now so tomorrow I will put some in water and see what color it is. Just today I asked Dr. Berg about it and how could I tell. Both of mine say they were mined in Pakistan. He hasn't answered yet. I did buy Redman's salt from Redman's and also found that HEB sells Redman's. Hope it isn't fake.
i remember that 2002 storm. we went 12 days without power. then went another 21 days without a furnace. the cause it was leaking co2 into the house and we had to shut it off til we got the parts to fix it
dont forget 2003 when area got 21 inches of snow and is the record in the charlotte area that wasn't last made in 1988 with 14 inches
I'm going to try the salt water bottle method for my chickens and our bird bath. Thanks for the idea.
Thanks for teaching us on your videos
Thanks! Gonna try that as soon as I get home.
Great video- never heard about the salt water bottles- good results though
I think salt water improves the buoyancy.. I know the salt water will not freeze like fresh water does and the bottle floating should keep the water moving a bit more this should keep the water from freezing.
in NH we use crampons on our boots and shoes, too hard to do anything without them... stay safe
Good evening, I’m a new chicken owner I have 16 hens and I just empty and clean their water container every night and fill it again in the morning with warm water, I take two gallon containers from my house.
Hello, it was very nice there .... the weather was nice and there were a lot of pets ... the family was really happy 🤩
Wow about the water🤔😀👍🤗❤
Okay I'm back. Great video loved the ducks on the pond. Made me giggle. And the saltwater thing made me save your video. You get a like from me for this one good job. Have a great day.
It's great to see how you deal with the winter on a homestead. We had rain yesterday now a cold front is moving in its going to be in the 20s
Thank you will be trying this today alsi I noticed the pallet over the water. I wondered how to keep the ducks from swimming in it. Definitely will be trying that too.
I'm going to try the salt water bottle. Thanks for the information.
I heard that cool sound
its called thin ice, nordic ice skaters, skate on it and it make laser sounds (national geo).... it is addicting... lol!
Thanks for the heads up on the water. We have had a problem here with the chickens water, gonna try it. we will let you know.
It works just fine. Awesome.
I've learned some things again, ty
thanks a lot very good info i live in central of canada sor sure it will work for me thanks for sharing and stay safe.
That was a good James Brown impression. lol
What a beautiful little goat. Cody?
My goodness, Cody is getting so big. ❤️🙏🏻
I'm gonna give this a try
Ice does indeed help your dance moves.
I will be surprised if this prevents the drinking water from freezing if everything else is equal. What I have always heard is that salt lowers the freezing point of water not warming it in any way. For example; we use salt to freeze ice cream because it lowers the temperature of the ice around the container which includes the cream. This draws the thermal units from the cream into the ice so the ice cream formula freezes but it does not eliminate any thermal units, only transfers their location.
To really test the efficacy of this idea you really need equal outside temps from one night to the next and equal volumes of drinking water submitted to the same temps for the same length of time. It would be more convincing to me if there had been a control batch of drinking water right beside the water containing the bottles of salted water. Sorry to be so skeptical but I would love to see this done with some water with the bottles beside some water without the bottles.
Always great seeing the family doing good and working together. Also love seeing the update. Very interesting and many blessing to you and the family Mike!!
Greetings friends...
Enjoyed
Pretty SLICK moves there Mike 😏. Selah is such a natural with the animals and always helps with a smile. The salt water in the ice was pretty cool idea. Thank goodness I don't have to deal with that much in south Alabama but we are supposed to have a chance of it Friday and Saturday. Keep up the good work and God bless you all
Thanks, great idea. ♡
This is super video!! Thank you.
Mike and family I am In Durham and we also got the same. AS I am watching this we have more coming tonight and tomorrow. Love watching you. God bless!
I’m in Greensboro and we got about 2” snow then sleet. I just hope we don’t get freezing rain this weekend.
Ballet on ice!
Gonna try it!!
That is just amazing- living in Sub-tropical Australia of course I will never use it but something new is learnt everyday Guys. Great Video Cheers Denise- Australia
Charlotte from Ky.🙂
Yes I did that but it told me to tape the lids so the water would not leak out in my animals water just in case it leaks I did this method years ago it works like you said and I hey said but my problem my dog won't to play with the bottle so it wouldn't work for her lol yes that what she did so I went out a bought her a water bucket that you plugged up and so I did for my chicken's. GOD BLESS you all say warm.
Im just starting a homestead so Thankyou for all the tips. We do get snow and ice were we live.
That's a cool ideal with the salt bottles I'm going to try that even the dog water if my stupid dog won't take the bottle out thinking it's a crew toy ,,I notice your ducks were talking junk about your ice pond
Liked the video. Thanks 👍
It's just like floatin a couple boards in the stock tank. Just keeps the water movin a little bit so it doesn't fully freeze.
You need to pour cold water on it warm water freezes faster
It looks like you guys drink the same kind of water that I do. Le Bleu is the best!
That was a first, just learned something
Chilly days for sure. We're hitting teh 20's that last few days and it's cold! I've never use saltwater bottles. Looks like a great way to passively keep water from totally freezing. I have a video of the method we use. It's not passive but it doubles as an extra level of comfort for your livestock. Search my channel for Surviving Snowpocalypse. Best to you guys.
I think every where is weird weather I live in south Mississippi its been in the 20 the passed few nights
You're are big kid Mike you had me cracking up.
Oh and I am a subscriber I watch all your videos just saying LOL