Diy Self Filling Watering system for our Nigerian Goats. Cheap Way to provide 70+ gallons of fresh water. This is an easy build and great way to provide fresh clean water to your animals.
Love the build. Have suggestion on improvement. Take cut off from bottom of tank, shorten and use couple latches to secure where they can't get to float. You may have already done that. I will build couple for my goats. great design.
Thank for your comment. I was concerned with the float but so far, the goats haven’t messed with it and it have been doing great for 2 years now. You will have to clean the little hole where the water feeds into the small Barrel. Thanks again. 😃
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Actually, we've been using this system for 2 years now without any issues. I clean it once a years and flush the tubing 2 to three time a year. Take 15 minutes tops. as far as temperature, I'm not sure if it because they are blue barrels but the goats have never seemed to mind and when i clean the small barrell, the water always feels cool to lukewarm even on the hottest days. But thanks for the comment. maybe other people have thought the same thing and now they can read my comment. :)
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It could freeze. The hose on our did a couple of times but thawed by mid-day. The barrel never did. Im thinking about designing a wind operated agitator.
We’ve not had any problems with them bothering the float. It might be because of the lip all the way around that end of the barrel. I kept an eye on it and thought if they did start messing with it, I was going to take a 4” pvc pipe and make a cover. Watch the end of the video and I kind of explain what I was going to do. Thanks for the question. Please like share and subscribe. 😃
I'm considering creating a water dispenser for mature goats by attaching a goat's nipple to a barrel. Based on your experience, do you think mature goats would use this setup for drinking?
We tried the metal pig nipple early on and they wouldn’t us it. I don’t think adults would use a nipple of any sort. You could try it on a cheap 5 gallon bucket and see.
@@timothyridgeway6789 all I did was drill a hole just big enough for the threaded portion of the float assembly and tightened everything up using the provided hardware that came with the float.
Also comes with the gasket and plastic nut and on the cut drum where you got for the goats to drink out of do I need that brass fitting to screw the float to ? Or could I drill a hole then put the float through the hole and tighten it up ?
It’s holding up extremely well. I did add a shaded top over the small barrel to help in keeping it cooler and cleaner. As far as the big barrel, we’ve not had any issues with the water getting hot. The plastic is really thick. Thanks for your question. 😃
