Cattle Shed Drinker / Water Trough ideas

[Benr]

We are fitting out a new shed for housing anything from weaned calves to finishing cattle.
In our existing shed we have got water bowls on the posts of the feed fence but they take up 1 feed space in each bay and surprising how they stick out into the feed passageway.
Seen these and thought they look handy but haven’t had price yet. They would go at the back of the scrape passage

Also thinking could just put a water bowl built into a frame between the scrape and bedded area?
What have you found has worked well please.

 

[M-J-G]

We've got Bateman tip over troughs at the back of the scrape passage, everything from weaned calves to cows use them.
I quite like them.

 

[upnortheast]

We use high backed troughs on a dwarf wall between the bedded & feed passage.
Works well

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

From a cost point of view, I always think it's a waste to put an expensive roof over a water trough and always try to find a space outside, preferably outside the pen to keep the poos out.

Appreciate that's more difficult in big sheds with multiple pens.

 

[upnortheast]

Downside of outside troughs. Much more susceptible to freezing on a frosty morning

 

[Benr]

EA have been everywhere around here. Any dirty water on yards will result in having to have a slurry store

 

[Pan mixer]

This is what I have, cows, calves or stores, not risked it with the stock bulls though.

I bought them as I fire the straw over from the fron with a spreadabale which gets in the tanks in the older yards, these tip very easily and hold back very securely.

I imagined emptying them every day, in fact the cattle keep them mighty clean and I actually emty them when i muck out the scrape yard every month and then they hardly need doing.

The pen has been emty for weeks and will be cleaned, we have about 8 cattle on that size. Doesn't seem that they cue. High pressure fill here - 10,000L header tank (collecting rain)

 

[M-J-G]

Similar to what @Pan mixer has, cattle have to come out onto concrete to drink so they don't trample the bedding around the drinker, plus it means the cattle with the water flicking habit don't soak the bedded area.

 

[Benr]

This is what I have, cows, calves or stores, not risked it with the stock bulls though.

I bought them as I fire the straw over from the fron with a spreadabale which gets in the tanks in the older yards, these tip very easily and hold back very securely.

I imagined emptying them every day, in fact the cattle keep them mighty clean and I actually emty them when i muck out the scrape yard every month and then they hardly need doing.

The pen has been emty for weeks and will be cleaned, we have about 8 cattle on that size. Doesn't seem that they cue. High pressure fill here - 10,000L header tank (collecting rain)

They look ideal are they Bateman ones? Thanks

 

[Benr]

Similar to what @Pan mixer has, cattle have to come out onto concrete to drink so they don't trample the bedding around the drinker, plus it means the cattle with the water flicking habit don't soak the bedded area.

Perfect thanks are they Bateman?

 

[Pan mixer]

They look ideal are they Bateman ones? Thanks

I think so, been there 9 years now, I know that I had to have them made to the lengths I wanted - 5 feet and 3 feet iirc.

 

[Pan mixer]

They look ideal are they Bateman ones? Thanks

Looking at their website I think that mine were an older design from them. The new ones look a bit more robust if a lot more pricey but I think that the swivel sort is brilliant for keeping clean

 

[deleted user 837354]

I do like to see the photos you guys post of nice cattle sheds. The thought of a good load of nice cattle in a shed on plenty of straw and looking well brings a cheer to your heart so it does.

 

[Pan mixer]

I do like to see the photos you guys post of nice cattle sheds. The thought of a good load of nice cattle in a shed on plenty of straw and looking well brings a cheer to your heart so it does.

I don't often post photos of my not nice sheds and certainly not when they need bedding up.

 

[M-J-G]

Perfect thanks are they Bateman?

Yes

 

[deleted user 837354]

I don't often post photos of my not nice sheds and certainly not when they need bedding up.

By nice, I mean nice, not brand new/latest and greatest, just a shed you'd be proud to have cattle in. Plenty of buildings are out there that aren't brand new shiny, but are great for cattle anyway.

 

[milk man]

EA have been everywhere around here. Any dirty water on yards will result in having to have a slurry store

Just finding this out. We collect all water off concrete yards, this is collected in 3 stage settlement tank. Then filtered and spread automatically with pump and irrigator system. Been told to switch off immediately. You couldn't make it up

 

[Sharpy]

EA have been everywhere around here. Any dirty water on yards will result in having to have a slurry store

You guys are just catching up, it's been like that here for 20 years.