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<blockquote data-quote="504RP" data-source="post: 1667027" data-attributes="member: 40335"><p>Ok i know what you are talking about. Thought you had something I hadn't heard about.</p><p></p><p>I have some of my pastures set up like that. Have two pastures that has Miria Flow waters ( insulated float control tanks) Then I have a tank that is if i remember right a 1000 gallon tank that i fill up with a water hose. I have to drain the hose each time i fill it up. Then have 3 smaller tanks that i thank are 300 gallon tanks. One that has a burried water line with a float valve for automatic water.</p><p></p><p>The problems with tanks that aren't insulated, heated, and burried lines. Is when temps get below zero. The ice freezes 4 or 5 inches thick. Busting it and filling it back up, disposing of the ice chunks is a real pain when you do it every day for 2 to 3 weeks straight.</p><p></p><p>I can only imagine what it would be like in Northern parts of the U.S. ?</p><p></p><p>I would bet anyone with cattle there know more about how to water cattle in below zero temps for long winters and know what to do about ice on ponds ( possibly moving cattle off pastures with frozen ponds before they freeze over ) than anyone else would know.</p><p></p><p>I won't leave cattle in a pasture that has a creek, pond or other body of water that a cow might break through ever again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="504RP, post: 1667027, member: 40335"] Ok i know what you are talking about. Thought you had something I hadn't heard about. I have some of my pastures set up like that. Have two pastures that has Miria Flow waters ( insulated float control tanks) Then I have a tank that is if i remember right a 1000 gallon tank that i fill up with a water hose. I have to drain the hose each time i fill it up. Then have 3 smaller tanks that i thank are 300 gallon tanks. One that has a burried water line with a float valve for automatic water. The problems with tanks that aren't insulated, heated, and burried lines. Is when temps get below zero. The ice freezes 4 or 5 inches thick. Busting it and filling it back up, disposing of the ice chunks is a real pain when you do it every day for 2 to 3 weeks straight. I can only imagine what it would be like in Northern parts of the U.S. ? I would bet anyone with cattle there know more about how to water cattle in below zero temps for long winters and know what to do about ice on ponds ( possibly moving cattle off pastures with frozen ponds before they freeze over ) than anyone else would know. I won't leave cattle in a pasture that has a creek, pond or other body of water that a cow might break through ever again. [/QUOTE]
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