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| That looks like a nice set up, and you did it right the first time. Curious what the reason is for the heavy built corral around the waterer? I'm guessing your splitting your pasture and your wintering area. My problem is time to get something that nice done. I just finished building high tensile fence for 80 acres. Half of it I'm strip grazing and the other half is corn that I want to put the cows on for part of the winter. Now its time to start chopping corn and then combining soybeans and corn.
Yes I'm in the thumb of michigan and the cows are Angus. Currently I'm running the water from the hydrant about 300 feet in a 1inch line just to get to the pasture and then I have it another 1800 feet across the ground for the strip grazing with quick connects. I'm just trying to brainstorm a way to get a temporary watering setup for this winter. I'm thinking possibly trying to get the water line burried to the pasture with electric and a hydrant. Then watering the cows in a large water tank with floating heater. Very rarely does it go below zero here. I also feed the cows sugar beet tailings at 80% moisture so the consume a lot less water. Then the is next year to fence in another 100 acres for grazing cornstalks and istalling a more permanent watering set up. That is where my question came in about what the max distance was that cows should have to walk to get to the water. | |
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Water for cows on cornstalks?
