pig water

[FL.Boy]

How can you keep the pigs from dumping there water over? I have a nipple water but the water gets so hot. It needs to be easy to move also.

[nehimama]

Always had nothing but trouble with my pigs dumping over any conventional water bucket, tub or trough. I noticed that, when I'd refresh their wallow (with water hose), they'd all take a long, cool drink off the top of it, then plunge in for the rest of the cooling experience. As long as I refreshed the wallow 3X a day or more, they were fine. I'm speaking of June ~ August in Missouri ~ pretty danged HOT.

NeHi

[highlands]

We secure the troughs. Some are big heavy bathtubs which stay put when buried a little except for the biggest pigs but they've learned not to flip them. Other troughs are plastic barrels cut off - drill a couple of holes and time them to a stake.

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[dpike]

I use 55gal plastic drums with two nipples installed opposite each other on the lower portion of the drum. I place the drums on cinder blocks. I've never had them tipped. I never let them get more than half empty (which stills gives me plenty of time between refills).

I actually also just started testing placing the drum on a tire filled with cement. I don't know how thats going to work yet though, so far so good..

DP

[AnnieinBC]

We just run a hose down to the water nipple (hose on outside of pen, nipple on inside, mounted on a board).

We put long planks on the hose to keep it out of the sun, and it seemed to work...could that be an option for you?

[FL.Boy]

i have a water nipple now hooked to a hose. the water just gets so hot. I'll try shading the hose with something.

[AnnieinBC]

Yes, ours was the same, but once we put planks on top of the hose to keep it in the shade, the water cooled down a LOT....worked out just fine. Hopefully that works for you too.