Re: cattle waters // Rithie or Jug

Posted by R. John Johnson on November 22, 2006 at 06:35:55 from (205.200.43.65):

In Reply to: cattle waters // Rithie or Jug posted by Jim WJ on November 21, 2006 at 21:00:07:

Jim

I'm located in central Manitoba, so I'm familiar with watering livestock in cold climates. I would make sure that you have electric heat in the waterer. Install a heat tape on the line feeding the waterer. My experieince mirrors Kyhayman's. The two places waterers freeze are the valve and the pipe at or just below ground level. The more animals drinking the better.

If you are worried about energy requirements, install a timer to run the electricity at night and turn it off in the day.

I just replaced our last Ritchie a few weeks ago. Good waterers, just the high salt content in our water eats things alive. As I posted at the time, it is made from an old 5 foot mining tire. So far, so good. I still need to make the lid and install a timer on the heater, but so far I really like it. Lots of surge capacity if a lot of animals want to drink at once. Also it's virtually indestructalbe, which is nice around cattle.

John

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