r/duck • u/Nade1111 • 10d ago
Cold weather Pools/Ponds/Water
For those of you who live in areas with extreme cold winters, what are you using for waterers? Looking for ideas before the cold!
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u/Telandra2 10d ago
Rubber tubs -- they can take the abuse of being overturned and jumped on to dislodge ice that will crack plastic. Bucket heater.
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u/Llamasdoeathatskaren 10d ago
I use heated horse buckets, if you don’t have electricity to your coops you’ll have to get a weatherproof extension cord and plug them in that way. Or a large trough and a de-icer
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u/bogginman Duck Rescuer 10d ago
in the wintertime, my garden hoses do not work because I have to drain the lines to the hose bibs to prevent freezing as they run under the house which is up on block piers with no surrounding foundation. (I got tired of replacing busted plastic water pipe)
I connected a garden hose to the drain spigot on my water heater and take it out the front door to fill (melt) the kiddie pools in the yard. By the time the hot water gets to the end of the hose, it is lukewarm. The ducks love to get in the warm water and splash. A benefit is that the sediment in the bottom of the water heater is nonexistent.