Water Use and Demand

[cowman]

I've seen the nose pumps but I just don't like them. Too slow in my opinion. Cows seem to think they all need to go for water at the same time and there is always a big brawl to see who gets to drink! Now I will admit the same thing would happen at a waterer.
That is the nice part of watering at the springs. Lots of room to spread out and drink without another cow slamming the drinker in the guts!
My own opinion is hey it worked for the last hundred years, so why reinvent the wheel, sort of thing? But I also realize the times are a changin and we live under a microscope these days. Got to be pro-active.

[cowman]

In the ad on the webpage for the nose pump I notices an awful lot of ice around one of them, that always makes me nervous about cattle slipping and falling when they are fighting over getting a drink.

I always keep the ice down around the stock waterers by putting a mixture of sand and ashes from the woodstove, mixed with chicken grit !!!!! My winter recipe !

[Deb]

You folks are still here yakking! It's like coming home again.
I just checked in to see what the latest discussion was and i thought it would be all about the border closure but perhaps we are sick of it now, yes?

About water. It will get drier in this semi-arid desert and I think humans are just going to have to be realistic and move out of the areas where there is no water. It sounds harsh but this scenario will be happening world-wide. We also have to stop allowing water-greedy industry and certainly not an industry that takes the water and completely removes it from the hydrological cycle.

In the words of Forrest Gump, that is all I have to say about that.