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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1434969" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>The float is a not very expensive one that is sold at the feed store and will screw onto the top of the water troughs; the rubbermaid ones. Float is about 8 inches by 3-4 inches by about 4-6 inches high, and it sticks over into the tank. Water comes in and as it fills up it pushes the float up which cuts the water off. I will look at the type when I go up to the farm where they are later today. Probably costs about 10-20 per float. That was one reason to keep it right against the trailer so they couldn't knock it or break it off the tank or whatever. Cows will not leave things alone as you well know. When we had it set up, it was 90's and very dry so I would say the cattle were drinking a fair amount...but thinking back, I would say 15-20 gallons per head a day at least. We had 15 -20 or so head there and the tank of water would last somewhere around 3 days. These cows had calves on them so the calves were drinking some but the cows were lactating so probably drinking more than dry cows or steers would be. So 20 head at 15 gal a day would be about 3 days = 900-1000 gal. That's approx.. The one thing that was good was, god forbid, someone got it unhooked, or the hose off or something, you only lost the big water tank full of water. </p><p>If it was hooked to a water faucet and a well, it could cause the well pump to run,. and run the well dry or burn up the pump. That is why we are having to go out to one pasture right now and run the water daily because we can't take the chance that they get something loose and run the guy's well dry or burn up his pump. We have 18 cows, the bull and 18 calves in the 250-350 lb size and they are drinking about 350 gal a day. I am filling the 3 water troughs, 100, 100 and 150 gal, and they drink their fill, and I fill the troughs to the brim. They usually have a very little left when i get back out there the next day; but twice they have been empty but the cows don't rush for the water so I know they have not been without for very long. We were getting water from the county, out of the fire hydrant. Got a permit and paid for the water and it allowed us to keep the cattle at this place on grass. Once we got some rain the well came back (maybe it was a spring that was piped to the water trough). It is the first place we have water trouble when the weather gets hot and dry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1434969, member: 25884"] The float is a not very expensive one that is sold at the feed store and will screw onto the top of the water troughs; the rubbermaid ones. Float is about 8 inches by 3-4 inches by about 4-6 inches high, and it sticks over into the tank. Water comes in and as it fills up it pushes the float up which cuts the water off. I will look at the type when I go up to the farm where they are later today. Probably costs about 10-20 per float. That was one reason to keep it right against the trailer so they couldn't knock it or break it off the tank or whatever. Cows will not leave things alone as you well know. When we had it set up, it was 90's and very dry so I would say the cattle were drinking a fair amount...but thinking back, I would say 15-20 gallons per head a day at least. We had 15 -20 or so head there and the tank of water would last somewhere around 3 days. These cows had calves on them so the calves were drinking some but the cows were lactating so probably drinking more than dry cows or steers would be. So 20 head at 15 gal a day would be about 3 days = 900-1000 gal. That's approx.. The one thing that was good was, god forbid, someone got it unhooked, or the hose off or something, you only lost the big water tank full of water. If it was hooked to a water faucet and a well, it could cause the well pump to run,. and run the well dry or burn up the pump. That is why we are having to go out to one pasture right now and run the water daily because we can't take the chance that they get something loose and run the guy's well dry or burn up his pump. We have 18 cows, the bull and 18 calves in the 250-350 lb size and they are drinking about 350 gal a day. I am filling the 3 water troughs, 100, 100 and 150 gal, and they drink their fill, and I fill the troughs to the brim. They usually have a very little left when i get back out there the next day; but twice they have been empty but the cows don't rush for the water so I know they have not been without for very long. We were getting water from the county, out of the fire hydrant. Got a permit and paid for the water and it allowed us to keep the cattle at this place on grass. Once we got some rain the well came back (maybe it was a spring that was piped to the water trough). It is the first place we have water trouble when the weather gets hot and dry. [/QUOTE]
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