Drinkers or troughs.

[Dan@JF]

Barn with cattle and sheep in. 25mm water piping. Currently mains but hopefully harvested rain water long term.

In an ideal world........

Would you choose Drinkers or troughs for either sheep or cattle.

And then metal or plastic.

 

[Bob c]

when we had cattle,.......they use to reck um
so think throughs are better

 

[GTB]

Plastic water bowls with drain plugs for sheep. Plastic troughs for cattle, ideally with a plug or drain.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I’ve just been installing these in the older yards with less cattle in

jFC. So far so good

 

[beefandsleep]

Do you use metal fittings so you can defrost with a blowtorch?

 

[GTB]

I’ve just been installing these in the older yards with less cattle in

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jFC. So far so good

Copper pipes? Wouldn't last more than five years with our water.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Do you use metal fittings so you can defrost with a blowtorch?

Very rarely it freezes up tbh

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Stick with the larger metal tanks in the bigger sheds

 

[Blod]

They inevitably muck in them so a quick way of draining them and enough space (beef or dairy would be different demands). I used to dream about having a trough on a swivel thing so that I could empty it quickly and not have to scoop the muck out. Dreams eh?

 

[Downton_shep]

Depends on the number of stock per yard. You don’t want stock queuing for water.

 

[kill]

Stick with the larger metal tanks in the bigger sheds
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Had a morning moving cattle around here and have decided that every new cattle water trough will be the roll over sort to clean as dirty water is a health hazard.

 

[mo!]

Not sure on the sheep side but we have IAE Polystall drinkers on 25mm pipe. We have 65 500-600kg bullocks on one and they never wait.

Brilliant with straw blowers as they don't fill up. No issues with muck either but you can drain in a minute anyway.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Had a morning moving cattle around here and have decided that every new cattle water trough will be the roll over sort to clean as dirty water is a health hazard.

True, I clean these out once a fortnight

 

[ridger]

I have rollover drinkers, empty them at least once a day. Even the water looks clean, the cattle always come over for a drink when they fill up again. Suppose I wouldn't like a cup of water that had been sitting all day either

 

[Loadabullocks]

Any recommendations for those rollover troughs? How expensive are they? Our sheds are quite densely populated admittedly, and so the troughs always seem to end up dirty with straw fallen in, and cattle accidentally mucking in them