Spacing That Stops the Queue Three animals drinking at once is not a luxury in a group pen; it is the difference between a calm water point and a scramble. The drinking length here is laid out at 20 cm per dairy cow and 10 cm per beef animal, which is the spacing used when a trough is sized from ...

A Drinker Built Around the Refill Rate The failure mode of most cattle drinkers is not the body but the valve. A cow drinks 60 to 100 litres a day and takes much of it in a few long visits; if the refill is slow the basin is empty when the next animal arrives, and the group starts fighting at the ...

End-Post Hardware That Makes a Temporary Fence Work A temporary fence is only as good as its ends. The strainer is the piece that converts a loose length of poly rope into a taut, conductive line, and it is the part most often left out of a starter order. What it does The strainer is fitted at the ...

The Triangular Trough Cattle Cannot Tip A wide, low centre of gravity and sloped sides make the triangular trough harder to overturn than a box-shaped pan, which is why it survives in pens where cattle push and crowd at feed time. Shape and sheet Folded from 1 mm galvanized steel, the trough runs to ...