Time is a precious commodity on a farm or ranch. From dawn to dusk and sometimes longer everyone is busy with work of tending the land, the animals, or fences and machinery. Watering the cattle and horses takes a lot of time and energy. A popular way to ease this burden is to invest in an automatic horse waterer.
The old-fashioned way to give the livestock a drink is with buckets or troughs. But buckets are heavy and and troughs are open to spilling. The ground around the place for drinking can get muddy and messy to walk through. Any standing water is attractive to mosquitoes looking for a place to lay eggs. Algae and other types of bacteria can grow and fester in these environments as well.
It may be time for a technological upgrade. A handsome, wall-mounted drinking bowl made of stainless steel will be a good choice for some. Water will be replaced when the horses drink because a float will sink and signal that more is needed. The problem of splashing and spilling from frisky animals will be greatly reduced.
The coming of winter, even in temperate areas, can cause drinking water to freeze. The chore of trudging out to the barn to break up the ice in the trough or barrel is a wearisome one. If the water is kept moving by constant drinking, the problem is less, but when the horses sleep it is likely to freeze. This obstacle is overcome by an automatic horse waterer in different ways.
The most obvious way to address the issue is with a heater. Many products for automatic watering contain these. Water is kept at an optimal temperature for equine health and many owners find the general fitness of their animals improving. For those reluctant to use electricity in this way, some machines maintain a continuous flow of water which is then directed to an outflow when the horses are not drinking. The flow helps prevent freezing.
But buckets and troughs had the advantage of letting owners know when their horses had stopped drinking. A disinclination to drink can be a sign of illness in livestock. For this concern, water consumption meters can be installed on almost all models to give owners and vets valuable information about animal health.
The end of the bucket brigade or the trough patrol can be a step toward increasing convenience and finding time for other tasks. This step involves considering the purchase of an automatic horse waterer.
The old-fashioned way to give the livestock a drink is with buckets or troughs. But buckets are heavy and and troughs are open to spilling. The ground around the place for drinking can get muddy and messy to walk through. Any standing water is attractive to mosquitoes looking for a place to lay eggs. Algae and other types of bacteria can grow and fester in these environments as well.
It may be time for a technological upgrade. A handsome, wall-mounted drinking bowl made of stainless steel will be a good choice for some. Water will be replaced when the horses drink because a float will sink and signal that more is needed. The problem of splashing and spilling from frisky animals will be greatly reduced.
The coming of winter, even in temperate areas, can cause drinking water to freeze. The chore of trudging out to the barn to break up the ice in the trough or barrel is a wearisome one. If the water is kept moving by constant drinking, the problem is less, but when the horses sleep it is likely to freeze. This obstacle is overcome by an automatic horse waterer in different ways.
The most obvious way to address the issue is with a heater. Many products for automatic watering contain these. Water is kept at an optimal temperature for equine health and many owners find the general fitness of their animals improving. For those reluctant to use electricity in this way, some machines maintain a continuous flow of water which is then directed to an outflow when the horses are not drinking. The flow helps prevent freezing.
But buckets and troughs had the advantage of letting owners know when their horses had stopped drinking. A disinclination to drink can be a sign of illness in livestock. For this concern, water consumption meters can be installed on almost all models to give owners and vets valuable information about animal health.
The end of the bucket brigade or the trough patrol can be a step toward increasing convenience and finding time for other tasks. This step involves considering the purchase of an automatic horse waterer.
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