I’m hoping to use an old cattle shed and silage pit to house some ewes in the next week or so. The water tanks are knackered and too big and high anyway so going to rig something up for sheep. Thinking something small like bowl drinkers but have heard bad things about them forever leaking. I was just wondering what other folks had found to work well for sheep. Cheers.
Sheep drinkers
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twizzel
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We’ve got jfc micro bowls- they work fine as long as you have the brass float like this in them. The plastic one is useless and will leak. https://www.moleonline.com/jfc-dbl4...320046~nw:u~rnd:4638280344363598235~dvc:t~adp
Also got the jfc conventional 16L bowls in a cattle shed, they work well too.
Also got the jfc conventional 16L bowls in a cattle shed, they work well too.
- Location
- West Wales
JFC 20gal twin sided tank like I now install in the fields. Pallet cut to shape to fit over the centre of the water tank so hurdles run off it separated 2 pens
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
+1 I’ve replaced a few big troughs with those and they work well without leaking. Easy to skip out occasionally to keep clean too.
https://farmandcountryonline.co.uk/products/fisher-alvin-a103-equine-drinker
see if these can be got for a better price , (9l capacity ) they're on ordinary mains ball valves
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Harder to clean than those plastic ones but they don't leak or block on the valve like the plastic ones can do .
see if these can be got for a better price , (9l capacity ) they're on ordinary mains ball valves
Fisher Alvin is the father of them
Harder to clean than those plastic ones but they don't leak or block on the valve like the plastic ones can do .
Cheaper bought direct
www.fisheralvin.com
We've got the 14l ones and like them but the the smaller 9l ones might be even better for sheep.
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We've got the 14l ones and like them but the the smaller 9l ones might be even better for sheep.
- Location
- Ballyclare Northern Ireland
As said by @twizzel the JFC micro bowls are a great drinker but have been known to leak. This is caused by too high inlet pressure they have a fix with a useless wee dick of a plastic float set up, don't use this set up not fit for purpose . The problem is with all mains drinkers is that water pressure increases at night when there is no demand and it causes them to leak. What we have had good results with is the JFC micro bowl used throughout the sheep house and we stuck a PRV (pressure reducing valve) on the main feed into the shed set at about two bar and have never had a leak.
or run off a header tank , if you do , make sure its not too big , mounted high enough for decent head and its got a lid/ covered well and maybe as well put some sort of filter on the outlet, then they shouldn't block .
I find those JFC micro bowls so easy to clean - just put a rubber glove on (COLD water here!) and flick it out into a bucket - only takes a few seconds and so easy. ^^^^^^ above 2 tips about pressure are useful - we can some times have a bit of bother with those without a header tank ( it reduces the pressure).
ISCO
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- Location
- North East
We just put some fisher ones in a polytunnel. They leaked on mains so installed a pressure reducing valve set at 2 bar and they are fine.
ritchiekirkland
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We have the fisher Alvin bowl shaped ones. Same story , leaked off the mains , just put in an old header tank and they worked fine for sheep .
Use the same, supplied from an IBC fed by roof rainwater (or topped up with mains if it doesn't rain)
Put breeze blocks in tank to stop lambs attempting suicide.
- Location
- West Wales
I’ve got the tank split to feed each 45’ bay. Pallet ontop then hurdle onto the bale feeder then another swinging hurdles the other side for access bringing ewes out.
I put blocks under to stop lambs being able to jump in
- Location
- British Isles
Not a sheep man but the @gators girl has a nice set up that her dad built that he had posed in his brilliant thread
Put blocks in tank so they can get out when they jump in!
- Location
- North of Perth
Just wondering how you get the bale in the ring feeder or is it just 2 45'bays?
- Location
- West Wales
Lambs can’t jump into that, lambs are penned within hours of birth
- Location
- West Wales
It’s just a 90x25 shed with doors one end. We push all the sheep down to the bottom end. Put bale in then open it back up for them. Shed is split in 2 at the feeder so it’s a much smaller pen for catching ewes in.