Water use per cow

[biggles]

Normally have about 60 stores of 12-18 month old running on a block of land where they drink from a spring, from next year they will not be able to access this and will have to use mains water, what quantity of water are they likely to consume over 12 months? As just trying to work out the costings as to maybe having a bit of a reshuffle, cheers

 

[Farma Parma]

Normally have about 60 stores of 12-18 month old running on a block of land where they drink from a spring, from next year they will not be able to access this and will have to use mains water, what quantity of water are they likely to consume over 12 months? As just trying to work out the costings as to maybe having a bit of a reshuffle, cheers

Plenty !!! only speaking from keeping 20 heifers 2-3yr old watered for just over 3months in rough grazing here before it got too wet thankfully
but drink yeesshh 2000litres wouldnt last them a week so there is a rough guide for ya.
2500litres id say for 7days do your maths on that & no dry food just the grazing they had.
Thank goodness for IBC's thats all i can say

 

[betweenthelines]

I seem to remember 1 gallon/day per cwt liveweight being the average for growing cattle

4.54 litres/day per 50kg liveweight doesn't have the same ring to it, does it?

 

[dannewhouse]

Have you seen them small bowl type drinkers designed to run a pipe down to a stream/ water source where the cattle pump them???
Just an idea.
I'm sure lots of ideas will come to light.

 

[biggles]

Cheers for the replies, that’s about what I was already thinking, would like to use a pasture pump or similar but there is some engineering works being done and I’ve lost the piece with spring on.

 

[Hesstondriver]

there is a published table , i think it might be a MAFF document ill try and find it

 

[Poncherello1976]

We had 50 12-18 month old steers and heifers on a block over the summer. We have put a water tank, 5000l, up there and it feeds a couple of water troughs. They were drinking about 10000l a week. We pump the water out of the stream that runs along side. The stream cuts the block in 2. 1 side they have access to the stream, the other side they do not. We have 20 up there at the moment and are topping it up about every 5 days.

 

[Timbo]

We had 50 12-18 month old steers and heifers on a block over the summer. We have put a water tank, 5000l, up there and it feeds a couple of water troughs. They were drinking about 10000l a week. We pump the water out of the stream that runs along side. The stream cuts the block in 2. 1 side they have access to the stream, the other side they do not. We have 20 up there at the moment and are topping it up about every 5 days.

28 litres / hd / day.

I always reckoned 5 gallons /day for cows, - summers are variable of course.

To the OP - budget £7 / day for mains water be a good starting point?

 

[Treecreeper]

I have an 1800 gal rainwater capture tank that trips to top up when there is about a1/4 left. It's currently supplying 55 mixed age cattle. In the past this takes about 4 days dry before trip in. If my reckoning right that's iro 6gal a head per day. On dry silage.

 

[Hesstondriver]

http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Document.aspx?Document=10474_WU0132SustainableWaterforLivestock_Finalreport_Appendices1-4.pdf

the link doesn't work very well but here is the extract:

 

[Timbo]

Either way, that's a substantial cost of water.

 

[czechmate]

Our cows (limmi sucklers) drink 100/120 lts each per day in the summer. I always seem to have the odd ones that need water taken to them.
Next to bugger all now though (while outside)