What do you use as a field Water trough?

[winchester]

Mine keep splitting (plastic) so need some new ones! What do you use - where did you get it from?

 

[AmyMay]

A water trough

 

[DellaMoon]

A water trough

 

[shoulderlength]

plastic buckets from homebase, empty them everynight before they freeze and re-fill in the morning

 

[Dubsie]

A water trough bought for a song at a farm auction (£6 springs to mind), and a self-filling water trough bought on ebay for £30.

 

[Crazy Friesian]

Um ok WAter trough - money permitting... If not, cos they costa lotta!... I used the water storage tanks from Wicks. The large ones cost about £25 if my memory is correct. They are squarish and black. They lasted me a few seasons, even in the icey weather.

They just didn't stand up to a Friesian youngster climbing in them and using it as a splash pool.... *roll eyes*

 

[Chico Mio]

A huge, black rubber trug - it's enormous. I think it's some agricultural or building thing. It looks like an ordinary big trug but it is about 50 litre capacity. It used to freeze solid, but never split.

 

[My_chestnut_mare]

3 cast iron baths and a plastic bath they are great free from the council

 

[BBH]

LOL Ditto , Bought from Scats.

 

[Enfys]

75 litre tubs with heater units in winter, 75 litre plastic Home Depot (B&Q) tubs in the summer they cost $9 and are easy to move about.
Other paddocks have self filling/heated troughs.

 

[Hippona]

Old cast iron baths.

 

[crellow4]

We have a huge concrete trough. it was a complete find as we bought the field with no water supply. On further investigation we found the trough planted up as a 'pond', full of reeds and stones. Several hours later it was clean and with the added bonus of an intact water supply - finding it made my day

 

[tedster]

I am glad im not the only one to use old baths..cast Iron ones

Free and last for a very long time

 

[TelH]

I use trugs. My ponies are strip grazed, 3 are in separate pens and 2 mares are in together. They do need filling probably every other day in summer but they are easy to move as I move the elec fence.

 

[Kalees_mum]

We have a metal water trough self filling in the main field, and in the little field we use half a blue barrell..

 

[TrecPeter]

Some 250ltr water troughs, often used for sheep farming.

 

[flash1]

plastic dustbins can be used you can put lid on over night to stop them freezing

 

[devilwoman]

2 old plastic baths, easier to clean to as just pull the plug out - wash them out then fill back up. Got mine free from local tip.