Rabbits to keep water from freezing?

Me and another member (IAmZeke) were tossing this idea around in another thread and I figured it needed it's own thread.

If I were to get a small building and insulate it well on all four sides, as well as the roof, then use is for raising meat rabbits, would it stay heated enough with the insulation and the body heat from the rabbits to keep large water storage from freezing during the cold months?

I'm planning on keeping maybe 6 to 10 adult rabbits and staggering breeding times so that I'll always have a few rabbits at butcher age, meaning possibly two or three liters of baby rabbits with their mothers at all times, in addition to the breeding pairs.

Would that many rabbits in a heavily insulated building be able to keep the stored water in large food grade tanks from freezing with no electric or gas heat involved?

If not, what extra steps could I take to keep the water above freezing? I could surround the tanks with the hay and grass I would be storing for the rabbits over winter as a bit of extra insulation

*Edit, if the rabbits wouldn't be enough heat at all, would it help to use the building as a barn for a few goats also? Maybe three or four goats in the building, plus the rabbits, that should put off quite a bit of body heat shouldn't it?

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Rabbits to keep water from freezing?