Water troughs and fish

[Bald Rick]

No doubt already done million times but arsed ...

Question: Do you feed your fish or do the cows drop enough?

 

[Horn&corn]

Cows used to drop enough and fish got pretty big after a few years. Increased Cow numbers also drank troughs dry too often and didn’t do the fish much good.

 

[Bald Rick]

Cows used to drop enough and fish got pretty big after a few years. Increased Cow numbers also drank troughs dry too often and didn’t do the fish much good.

Tis a big concrete trough we have installed in the cow lane but it’s too deep for them to drink much more than 6” down

I find that concrete seems to grow algae much quicker than plastic or steel hence the fishies

 

[milkloss]

Used to chuck the odd crushed cow nut in ours. Fish grew like stink in the warm plate cooler water.

 

[Bald Rick]

Used to chuck the odd crushed cow but in ours. Fish grew like stink in the warm plate cooler water.

Crushed cow?

f**k me, did you keep piranhas?

 

[milkloss]

Crushed cow?

fudge me, did you keep piranhas?

Edited....... COW NUT!

 

[Bald Rick]

Edited....... COW NUT!

At least it wasn’t the bull’s

 

[Wee Willy]

Feel the need to ask a really stupid question,why have you gold fish in a cow’s drinking trough?

 

[Ballygreenan]

Feel the need to ask a really stupid question,why have you gold fish in a cow’s drinking trough?

They eat all the crap, keep the water really clean, especially in indoor concrete drinkers without a fast empty bung.

 

[Dead Rabbits]

I’ve been meaning to fill mine up with fish. We have 16 along bunks with no drains, 350 gallon each. Takes forever.

 

[Farmer Keith]

Is there a type of fish you can eat when they’ve grown big enough? Or is that ridiculous?

 

[dinderleat]

What happens to the fish shiit in the trough?

 

[dinderleat]

Slurry tanker and 4 inch pipe will soon clean them out using fish is the lazy option

 

[Beef farmer]

Slurry tanker and 4 inch pipe will soon clean them out using fish is the lazy option

Fish it is then. Lazy is good

 

[dinderleat]

Fish it is then. Lazy is good

You need the water for your trees anyway

 

[newholland]

Don't use minerals in the water if you have fish. The minerals kill the fish instantly and was a sad day when we realised what had happened as our trough fish had been here years and grown huge with all the food and warm water.

 

[Cows 'n grass]

Don't use minerals in the water if you have fish. The minerals kill the fish instantly and was a sad day when we realised what had happened as our trough fish had been here years and grown huge with all the food and warm water.

We had the same. Some more of mine received an accidental squirt of pour on ivomec, it would only have been a few ml in a 500g trough but they were dead almost instantly.

 

[Ducati899]

Slurry tanker and 4 inch pipe will soon clean them out using fish is the lazy option

Sounds like making work fudging about with a tanker, stuck 2 fish from fairground in a trough here 8 years ago that soon multiplied into 15!! In winter months drop the odd cow cake nut in for them and they seem fair happy

 

[Bald Rick]

Thriving ...

 

[deleted user 837354]

I understand you can be busted by farm assurance for having cat food containing fishmeal in the calf pens yet here we have fish food in a cow trough and if it was our cat no prizes for guessing where he would be sat most of his time trying to catch the beggars.