How much water per day

duffysfarm

How much water per day would a cul cow drink? I am looking and agriland is saying between 60 and 110 litres per day depending on the weather but I am wondering if that is a dairy cow as it seems a lot for a cow. I know age and size may come into but i would be just talking about your average nowmn dairy or suckler cow

_Brian

I don’t know but it’s definitely more when your carrying it to them 🙄

ganmo

What they're eating is important too, if its dry they'll need more

Who2

i'd say 60-110 is fairly accurate, i had the misfortune of a pump going on an outfarm once and 400-500kg dry heifers were drinking aproximately 90l per day in the middle of summer.

Donald Trump

Bad memories of getting stuck with bringing water to weanings in a field one Summer back in the day. Probably that hot summer of 95. The most boring cunt of a job. Standing around for ages switching over the hose between filling a heap of 40 gallon drums on the back of a trailer, bringing to the field and tipping them over into an old bath so the animals could drink it. And they'd be going mad for it and pucking the shite out of each other to try to get it. Was a very hot summer and all the streams/rivers were dried up.

The job itself was not so bad, the annoying thing was that 20 yards of hydrodare plus a drinker and ballcock was all that would have been needed to have it properly set up.

Buford T. Justice XIX

ganmo wrote: »

What they're eating is important too, if its dry they'll need more

Yeah, under normal weather, a few showers every so often will get a lot of water into grass but if you're in an area that hasn't had a lot of rain then they will need more water from the trough to compensate.

And in warmer weather, they'll need more again.

Muckit

Donald Trump wrote: »

The job itself was not so bad, the annoying thing was that 20 yards of hydrodare plus a drinker and ballcock was all that would have been needed to have it properly set up.

The story of my childhood. The sad thing is there are still lads at it and all for the want of a bit of pipe or cheap connection to a GWS.

Muckit

There's actually a lad near me that draws barrels on a transport box. Between 3 right hand turns on by roads he's literally back in a circle on himself!!

All for the want of a length of pipe from his own pump or connection to a GWS passing the gate. Misery.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Muckit wrote: »

There's actually a lad near me that draws barrels on a transport box. Between 3 right hand turns on by roads he's literally back in a circle on himself!!

All for the want of a length of pipe from his own pump or connection to a GWS passing the gate. Misery.

A man across the river from me with 70 ewes draws water from a hand pumped well for his sheep all spring from a half mile away, buckets it into barrels and buckets it out again and he has water right outside his gate but won't use it because of all the 'stuff' they put in it.

He's 75.

Talk about trying to find ways to make work for yourself.

Say my name

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

A man across the river from me with 70 ewes draws water from a hand pumped well for his sheep all spring from a half mile away, buckets it into barrels and buckets it out again and he has water right outside his gate but won't use it because of all the 'stuff' they put in it.

He's 75.

Talk about trying to find ways to make work for yourself.

Where does he get the water for the house?
From the handpump?

Buford T. Justice XIX

Say my name wrote: »

Where does he get the water for the house?
From the handpump?

Yeah, it's madness. He still hand shears the ewes as well as far as I know, texel ewes. Glutton for punishment.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Yeah, it's madness. He still hand shears the ewes as well as far as I know, texel ewes. Glutton for punishment.

I know I mentioned it elsewhere here before but he started digging a drain by hand a couple of years ago. Some 4 foot down and he got about 50 feet of the 100 feet into the field over a few weeks when a local lad with a mini digger came in and dug and filled the rest of the drain in half an hour.

Muckit

Perhaps he was doing it as a mindfulness exercise!

Say my name

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Yeah, it's madness. He still hand shears the ewes as well as far as I know, texel ewes. Glutton for punishment.

That's "Natural Farming" in the exteme.

gozunda

Say my name wrote: »

That's "Natural Farming" in the exteme.

And what we will be back to if this 'climate crisis' 'zero emissions' promoters get their way...

ganmo

At least he's not afraid of hard work

Say my name

ganmo wrote: »

At least he's not afraid of hard work

If that water pipe wasn't passing by on the road outside he'd be entitled to a grant for a new well and electric pump and then his life would change.