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Location: on my horse | I'm about to pull my hair out lol my gelding knocks over his water and climbs in it every single day (half barrel waterer). I've tried tying it to the fence, elevating it, etc. and nothing has stopped him so far.
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Location: SE Louisiana | Take it away?? |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | Automatic waterer, the small trough kind. |
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Location: on my horse | Tried it, offered it to him to drink every few hours when home but I'm leaving town for a couple days and don't feel comfortable asking my roommates to hand water him or pay attention to him at all for that matter. I've got somebody coming by twice a day to feed. |
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Location: on my horse | I wish I could afford an automatic waterer |
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| have someone or you build you a box around it out of some 2x4's.
Something like this but make it a little shorter than the barrel. |
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| FlyingJT - 2014-04-17 11:42 AM
have someone or you build you a box around it out of some 2x4's.
Something like this but make it a little shorter than the barrel.
it wont let me attach a pic |
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Location: Midwest | What a turd! lol |
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Location: on my horse | After this latest little trick I'm contemplating changing his name to Turd haha, FlyingJT I send you a PM |
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Location: bring on the heat, NV | I have several that stand in there troughs and splash/paw... seriously looks like i have huge leaks!
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Location: NC | My mare in the summer likes to stand in her buckets. I say shes getting a pedi and soaking her feet first. Pain in the butt with how dirty water gets |
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Location: NC | My mare in the summer likes to stand in her buckets. I say shes getting a pedi and soaking her feet first. Pain in the butt with how dirty water gets |
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Location: Oklahoma & Texas | I have a broodmare who gets in it every day nearly...wastes a ton of water and where I am water is expensive..let me know when you figure it out cause I need a solution too!!. |
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Location: NW Arkansas | I can definitely sympathize! I bought a 4 year old mare that we couldn't keep out of the water trough. Finally we elevated it-- I mean elevated it-- and clamped it to the pipe fence. She can't get up in it, paw and knock it over like she did before. I bet it's shoulder high on the horses. We set it on lick tubs- think 1/2 of a 55 gallon barrel to get it high enough she couldn't get in it and paw.  |
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Location: on my horse | Last night I ended up elevating it on another tub in a corner so now the rim of his water is about waist height on me. I bungie corded everything together and to the fence and stuck a board through his panels so it keeps him from being able to get right up next to it and shove his chest into it and splash around that way.
It worked overnight but we'll see what today brings. |
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| I'd like to see a picture of the current contraption. Then we can make improvements from there. |
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| I agree - if you can get a pic, that'd be helpful.
I sympathize. We put in a Ritchie automatic waterer ... but I understand that is not necessarily an option at every place. |
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Location: Where the buffalo roam | We use a tie strap all the way around one of ours and that seems to work. We had to do the same thing to the corner feeder in another horse's pen. |
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| I had one that used to crawl into a 150 Gallon Rubbermaid tub... i poured a concrete pad and elevated it about 1.5 Ft. she never tried it again! |
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Location: on my horse | I'll get a picture of the bungie mess today |
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Location: Georgia | I have a stand built from wood that the plastic tub sits in and is about 3 feet tall. Works great. |
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Location: Tennessee | We buried ours about a 8-12 inches in the ground. It doesn't keep them from getting in it, but it keeps them from turning it over. |
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Location: on my horse | Here's what I have, I took the board out of the panels because it made me nervous, I could just picture him somehow getting a leg over it and getting stuck or something.
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| are the bungies helping? |
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Location: on my horse | Yeah he still plays in it with his face and tries to pull it off the tub and hasn't really made any progress other than to bend the fence a little. I need to get him some actual panels but that's not in the budget at this time  we've voted and decided to change his name to Mr. Turdface destructivepants |
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