How Cold?

[EdBar]

How cold do your lofts get "inside" in the winter?

[Guest dogeon]

do your drinkers ice over

[Guest]

   -1.5 this morning, drinkers frozen :-/

[Guest shadow]

slightly warmer tha outside   empty all drinkers the night before frost is forecast

[Hogni]

As cold as outside, don´t use any heating or any light during the winter.The first day the water froze in my drinkers this winter was just this week 20.11´07

[DOVEScot]

As cold as outside, don´t use any heating or any light during the winter.The first day the water froze in my drinkers this winter was just this week 20.11´07

 

It must be a whole different story for you in Iceland, what is the lowest temperatures you expect during the winter?

[Guest]

To stop your drinkers freezing just get some of the board type insulation that they use in cavity walls (kingspan)and place the drinker on it, just oversize it so the birds can stand on it to drink. You will also find some of the birds sit on it as it keeps their toes warm!

[homer]

im on the southeast coast and its  41 f  in the shed thismorning.

 

 

 

 

[DOVEScot]

im on the southeast coast and its  41 f  in the shed thismorning.

 

 

 

 

It was 37f/3c in Fife this morning :'(

[Hogni]

 

It must be a whole different story for you in Iceland, what is the lowest temperatures you expect during the winter?

 

Well it is getting warmer in Iceland and like i said it was only this week that the water in the drinkers froze for the first time, but in december until end of february we can expect periods where the temperature goes down to -10° celsius

 

 

[DOVEScot]

 

Well it is getting warmer in Iceland and like i said it was only this week that the water in the drinkers froze for the first time, but in december until end of february we can expect periods where the temperature goes down to -10° celsius

 

 

How do you cope with drinkers etc in these conditions of -10c

[Guest TAMMY_1]

slightly warmer tha outside   empty all drinkers the night before frost is forecast

 

just the same here

[DJ]

it seemed as cold inside my loft this morning as it was outside but my drinkers were,nt frozen up  my birds seem to be taking the recent cold weather in their stride but they are eating more now so i just make sure their feeders are full until about 1 hr b4 i switch the loft light out    

                                         debbie

[REDCHEQHEN]

January 1982 - where I lived then (and not far from where I live now) - the temperature went down to -17 C, and the diesel froze in the buses - I hope we don't get any winters like that any more  :-/