A Drinker Built Around the Refill Rate The failure mode of most cattle drinkers is not the body but the valve. A cow drinks 60 to 100 litres a day and takes much of it in a few long visits; if the refill is slow the basin is empty when the next animal arrives, and the group starts fighting at the ...

Supplementary Minerals, Delivered at Licking Speed Loose minerals in a trough get kicked, rained on and sorted through, and the cow still walks away short of what she needs. A pressed block solves the delivery problem: the animal takes what it wants at its own pace, the block stays where it is put, ...

End-Post Hardware That Makes a Temporary Fence Work A temporary fence is only as good as its ends. The strainer is the piece that converts a loose length of poly rope into a taut, conductive line, and it is the part most often left out of a starter order. What it does The strainer is fitted at the ...

One Cow, One Bucket, One Simple Machine Not every dairy needs a pipeline. On smallholdings, in tie-stall sheds and on farms that milk a few cows at a time, a single bucket machine gets the job done with the least equipment and the least cleaning. How the set works The vacuum pump draws air from the ...