Frozen water bottles

[wiganer 0]

Does anyone stop their ferret water bottles from freezing up and if so how?

 

Our cages are outdoors but in a covered area. We are defrosting 3 times a day in this weather. We not fussed about doing it but just wanted to know if anyone has a fix for the issue.

 

Chris.

[John-B 4]

just change them as often as you can mate, I have 2 water bottles and keep rotating them every few hours, when i'm at work my wife changes them for me, if that's not possible you could try a small heavy bowl of water and they will lick the ice to get some water.

[turbo28 1]

Ive used bubble wrap mate,they just freeze up from the nozzle,so theres nowt ye can do,like john b says you just have to change them :thumbs:

[coursing john 1]

Does anyone stop their ferret water bottles from freezing up and if so how?

 

Our cages are outdoors but in a covered area. We are defrosting 3 times a day in this weather. We not fussed about doing it but just wanted to know if anyone has a fix for the issue.

 

Chris.

ive got a bowl with a little pump on the side that curculates the water so it wont frez

[Aaron_butcher 17]

i use bandages then cover it in tin foil, not had it freeze up yet. A fwe pairs of old socks keep the ice out for a little while too.

[zaktarin 1]

i use bandages then cover it in tin foil, not had it freeze up yet. A fwe pairs of old socks keep the ice out for a little while too.

 

does that also keep the nozzle from freezing?

[Rhodey 96]

The isn't anything you can do in this weather, at -13 degress it will freeze most things insulated or not.

[Aaron_butcher 17]

i use bandages then cover it in tin foil, not had it freeze up yet. A fwe pairs of old socks keep the ice out for a little while too.

 

does that also keep the nozzle from freezing?

 

Yes mate, as long as you cover the nozzle aswell. its just a bit of a pain when it needs filling up again

[decky 79]

drop of anti freeze in bottle does the trick

[darbo 4,776]

anti-freeze? IQ of a house brick comes to mind.

[Guest crobinc840]

Someone said to put a bit of gelatin in it, I believe it was tomo. I keep mine indoors so don't have to worry about it. There are also water bottle covers on ebay.

[andy mecca 5]

old pair of woolly gloves cut a nick in middle finger and slip over bottle,just leave very tip of lance sticking out

[ferretracer 24]

i use 3 bottles on my court i got told to use honey, so put 300ml of boiling water in jug and mix in about a

2 teaspoons of clear honey until well dissolved, leave it cool before mixing in the waterbottles otherwise the bottles get deformed as they cant take the heat(as i found out, i did a mix of 100ml honey water to a 500ml bottle, seems to be working the nozzles still freeze but take longer

[j davies 8]

Does anyone stop their ferret water bottles from freezing up and if so how?

 

Our cages are outdoors but in a covered area. We are defrosting 3 times a day in this weather. We not fussed about doing it but just wanted to know if anyone has a fix for the issue.

 

Chris.

in the weather we have had nothing will stop them from freexing they evan freex inside its so cold just change them like every one eles says mate and make sure the bedding is warm for them x fetched mine inside the bedding area on the sides and roof was frozen inside

[Big Mat 0]

I attatched an old ice cream tub ( one of them short ones expenwsive ice cream comes in ) to the wire of my cage so they cant knock it over, easier to fill that up and just pull the ice out and refill every day.