Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Forums
Cattle Boards
Feedyard Board
Drinking water temperature
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support CattleToday:
Message
<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 928811" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>there's been studies done showing that cattle will drink more of water offered from a trough than from a creek, even if it's the same water, and improved weight gains were achieved as a result.</p><p></p><p>As for clean water - yes it's important also. More so for lactating/growing cattle. My cows seem able to produce on very poor quality water whereas the farmer who leased this farm last year told me his cows dried up because of the unpalatable water - he brought his cows in-milk whereas mine got used to drinking it before calving, I think that's the difference. Of course, it could have been the poor quality grass or something else that dried his cows up but I don't doubt for a minute that they did dry up very shortly after arriving on this farm (I saw one of his milk collection dockets).</p><p>My cows drink from the trough and very rarely from the creeks - their milk will drop if the trough is empty and they have access to a running creek - and it is the same water.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 928811, member: 9267"] there's been studies done showing that cattle will drink more of water offered from a trough than from a creek, even if it's the same water, and improved weight gains were achieved as a result. As for clean water - yes it's important also. More so for lactating/growing cattle. My cows seem able to produce on very poor quality water whereas the farmer who leased this farm last year told me his cows dried up because of the unpalatable water - he brought his cows in-milk whereas mine got used to drinking it before calving, I think that's the difference. Of course, it could have been the poor quality grass or something else that dried his cows up but I don't doubt for a minute that they did dry up very shortly after arriving on this farm (I saw one of his milk collection dockets). My cows drink from the trough and very rarely from the creeks - their milk will drop if the trough is empty and they have access to a running creek - and it is the same water. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Cattle Boards
Feedyard Board
Drinking water temperature
Top