using a bathtub as a water trough?

The_Snow_Queen said:
Now this is just getting silly.... Have used baths in the past and have had no problems... And no injured/dead horses :rolleyes: no ideas on how to fill the hole up thiug
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Exactly!!! we have a cast iron which the horses are all fine with and they prefer to drink from them than buckets!

Ours still has the plug hole...but no plug it is filled with mud....and no water seems to have escaped...weird :D
 
This has just reminded me of something. My friend had a new bathroom put in and asked the workmen to put the old bath in the field for her to use as a water trough. When she went out there to have a look at it the workmen had dug a hole and put it in and it was level with the ground!
I think they thought they were doing her a favour.
 
Seahorse said:
This has just reminded me of something. My friend had a new bathroom put in and asked the workmen to put the old bath in the field for her to use as a water trough. When she went out there to have a look at it the workmen had dug a hole and put it in and it was level with the ground!
I think they thought they were doing her a favour.
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that made me chuckle :D how sweet of them.
 
We have a bath as a water trough - its made of strong plastic though so its quite easy to lift up and empty - and then can be refilled using the hose - the rain keeps it topped up. The water does get dirty easily with all the horses using it but I empty it once a week and hose it out and top it up again and they haven't died of thirst yet :D
 
I used baths for years when we kept the ponies on an allotment (shock horror!!!)

I would do as others have said & go get a new fitting xx
 
muff747 said:
It only takes one terrible accident to put one person off doing something for life - that's only natural when you have witnessed the accident.
I have seen baths used extensively since being involved with horses over the last forty years, only one fatal accident that I have heard of and that was when the taps were left on the bath. My friends' friends horse caught it's headcollar on the tap, couldn't get away, panicked and dragged the bath halfway around the field and smashed it's legs trying to get away from it :eek: so don't leave the taps on it and don't leave head collars on in the field.
I once used a stiff piece of plastic cut much bigger than the hole and used some strong waterproof glue around the flat edges of the hole and stuck the plastic disc to it, forming a waterproof seal over the hole.
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This!! I have also used baths for troughs for about 40 years!! No problems but then I have Arabs!! Also I agree taps off and no halters left on. Mine have their wastes stuck into the ground so if I feel inclined I can dig a ditch to drain, but usually a net and a bit of elbow grease cleans them up fine!!
 
I used a cast iron one for years and years and never had a single problem with it until one day ...

Some bloody theiving scrappy - yes I know who it was! - went out to my field during the night and smashed it up and took it away leaving my horses with absolutely nothing to drink!
 
thank you all so much going to drag OH to diy shop at weekend and let him do it hehe taps are already off and my dad busy building something to protect horse from sharp edges :)
 
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