Long Trough, High Refill, Calm Water Point Six drinking spaces along four metres, with a refill rate of 100 to 120 litres a minute and a 300 litre basin in reserve. That combination is what keeps a large group drinking calmly: even if several cows arrive together, the level recovers faster than the ...

One Slow Fan Instead of Twenty Fast Ones Air mixing in a large building is a volume problem, not a velocity problem. A 7.3 m fan turning at 55 rpm moves a wide column of air slowly enough that animals feel a gentle drift rather than a draught, and it does so with one motor, one cable drop and one ...

A Drinker Built Around the Refill Rate The failure mode of most cattle drinkers is not the body but the valve. A cow drinks 60 to 100 litres a day and takes much of it in a few long visits; if the refill is slow the basin is empty when the next animal arrives, and the group starts fighting at the ...

Supplementary Minerals, Delivered at Licking Speed Loose minerals in a trough get kicked, rained on and sorted through, and the cow still walks away short of what she needs. A pressed block solves the delivery problem: the animal takes what it wants at its own pace, the block stays where it is put, ...