Drinking Facility in Goat Farm

I consider health is the most important aspect in the farm, especially if we want to be a breeder. One of those facilities that we must concern about is source of clean and good quality of drinking water. A dirty drinking water could lead to diarrhea. Hence, will cause retardation in growth and possibly death.

I have seen many small farms like mine, using pail or bucket or recycled chemical container to serve drinking water. To maintain minimum cleanliness level, the water needs to be changed at least twice a day. If we have to change 20 containers, one could imagine how much time needed to do the job. It ends up many farmers change them "once in a while"...

Each container normally will take about 15 liters and the consumption is less than half. The remainder half is normally non-consumable. Dirty and contaiminated... Hundreds of liters is wasted everyday.... Tens of manhours are wasted each months.... It is a matter of concern for the management: Health, efficiency and profitability...

Farming industry has grown well established in terms of providing reasonable good facilities in the farm. Drinking water facility is one of them. To my dear colleagues farmers, please look for "nipple". Find something suitable for the farm, but if you look something suitable for yourself, then the choice is yours hahahaaa...

I would like to share the drinking water system I used in my farm. Perhaps you could upgrade the one you have.

First we must have water tank, installed about 3m above the floor. Its capacity depending on the quantity of the goats. I use 100liter tank size for 100 adult goats. It has continuous supply directly from the water authority (in my case, SAM).

A properly designed farm will make water distribution system easy and simple. Normally our farm are designed in rows. But there are farms with a few small pans in some corners.

To reduce the number of nipples, we do not require to install one nipple in each pan. We install one for every 2 pan. Install it at in-between 2 pans. They can share the nipple. Make sure we make a window big enough for them to access. Roughly about 15inch height and 8inch width.

The nipple is installed about 1m above the floor, in line with the running water pipes.

What is that small container below the nipple? I will share with you in my future publish, Insha Allah.