August 2003

Nelson Tops In Automatic Waterers

Pasture waterers make sense, but stall waterers are a luxury item.

Hoses will get the job done, but it’s far from an efficient method of keeping your pastured horses with water, especially if you’re watering a herd of horses.

No more buckets to haul, no more troughs to fill. Sounds blissful, doesn’t it? Automatic waterers can take away much of the drudgery of keeping horses. They’re also expensive and bring their own sets of nuisances as well.

A trough-style waterer is economical in the pasture, where it can save water that gets dumped out when cleaning a large trough. Plus 25 to 30 horses can drink from one waterer. But individual stall waterers can quickly become a luxury. …