Chicken HVAC

This evening I built a water heater for our chickens to keep their water from freezing. It is a cookie tin with an incandescent lightbulb inside; the bulb provides a fair amount of heat. It was a rather straightforward process, except that the bulb socket I was using wasn’t grounded, and I didn’t like the idea of an ungrounded device near water, so I had to replace the cable with a grounded one, and run a ground wire to the cookie tin. This took some time, but I’m proud of the end product.

Here are some photos of the process.