How much water do I need for my stock?
Stock need a lot of water especially in our harsh summers.
Water needs vary between dry animals and those lactating and feeding young.
From my experience, the following requirements are a good guideline:
Cattle require 40 – 140 litres per head / per day
Sheep require 4 – 12 litres per head / per day
Horses require 40 – 150 litres per head / per day
Pigs require 10 – 45 litres per head / per day
Dry cows and young stock will drink at least twice a day.
If there is adequate water in the trough then cows drink for no longer than about 1- 1½ minutes.
On average, cows will drink between 20 – 40 litres during this time.
The problems arise when inadequate replacement water is entering the trough.
When calculating the inflow requirements look at how many cows can be drinking at the one time.
The water trough should allow for at least 10% of the stock drinking at the one time.
Generally the trough edge required is 0.5 metres/cow and 0.3 metres/sheep but a longer trough is always better!
This is trough edge requirements, so a trough that can only be accessed from one side needs to be twice as long!
The Cocky Valve Ulti Flow will allow sufficient inflow for 10 cows drinking at 24 litres per minute at just 200Kpa (30psi) pressure.
Obviously with higher supply pressures / supply flows, then the inflows through a Cocky valve will also increase.
The Cocky Valve Ulti Flo won’t break, block and will deliver the amount of water to your stock when they need it!
Day after day, year after year …. and Guaranteed for life against breakage.
So stop wasting money, time and water………buy it once, fit it once – just buy a Cocky Valve!