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Here it is… finally installed and ready for years and years of trouble free service.  If it can make it through our harsh winter just setting on gravel, it should have no problem providing years of dependable service, being installed correctly on a concrete pad.  The model we have is short enough for goats and sheep to drink from… and yet it’s tall enough for cattle.

Here is our recently installed remote automatic winter waterer

This waterer is located approx. 850 ft from the homestead.  I ran out of time last year to get it installed as I should have, but used it for the cattle anyway.  Because I did not have it on a cement pad I was not able to get paid for it with our NRCS grant money, but the funds should come through this year once the waterer and pad get inspected and approved.

Right now the cattle are locked out of the area where this waterer sets.  They are in a paddock down the lane that boarders the eastern property line.  There I have another remote watering station, consisting of a 60 gal. stock tank.  Currently, they are being fed grass hay in that same paddock.  Next week the pasture grasses will be long enough for me to turn them out.  I wish I could do it now, but timing is very important when practicing managed grazing techniques.

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