Water and Cold Weather
When it gets real cold here, the water gets a skim of ice on top. If it's snowing, sometimes the water turns slushy. If it's real cold, the water freezes pretty thick on top (an inch or so). Thick enough to support a rabbit, anyway.
The rabbits leave the water dish all nasty with muddy footprints and little poop berries frozen into their water.
We got these little three gallon rubber dishes from our feed store. They were $8.99 each. We use one for the rabbits and one for the chickens. They stay very flexible even in extremely cold weather. I just turn them upside down and step on the bottom a bit. The water and most of the ice come out. Then I pick it up and, holding it upside down, I flex the sides and the rest of the ice just pops out. It couldn't be any easier!
I take them fresh water to the animals in the morning and evening, summer and winter. In the winter if it's REAL cold, I take water at midday too.
Labels: chickens, country living, rabbits
posted by Leslie @ 11:07 AM
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I've been hauling water three times a day during these really cold days, too. fortunately the bitter weather doesn't last for long!
We have those same types of buckets. Though rubber and plastic is supposed to foster disease, a stainless steel water container would just get beat all to heck from me trying to get the ice out.
Up here in Illinois, I have to knock out a big round disk of ice every day, sometimes twice a day. I always do this in the same spot so I've got like 4-6 weeks of large frozen circles piled up there. My wife jokes that we could build an igloo out of them.
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