Re: waterers freezing in Ukraine

Greg & Lei Gunthorp (hey4hogs@kuntrynet.com)
Wed, 20 Oct 1999 00:30:50 -0500

How deep are your waterlines? What is your ground water tempature? What
are you using for water now? Is electricity an option or does it have to be
energy free?
Greg Gunthorp
-----Original Message-----
From: vera <vera@mail.dnepr.net>
To: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu <sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu>
Date: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 12:04 AM
Subject: waterers freezing in Ukraine

>We are raising pigs outdoors (1,700 with 150 of these sows) and intend
>to increase the ehrd to 5,000 over time.
>We are raising Holstein dairy cows with the intention to increase to
>2010 milking cows ( we have 5 groups of 50 Holstein each today ) We keep
>our dairy in free stalls .
>
> We have not solved the problem of how to keep the water in the
>waterers from freezing in the hoop shelters for the pigs and the free
>stall barns for the dairy.
>
> Our temperatures drop to minus 34 degrees.
>
>Please make suggestions. Please provide contact numbers for
>manufacturers ( 800 telephone numbers do not work here in Ukraine ) of
>waterers that will work in freezing temperatures or share with us your
>makeshift approaches to keeping water in the waterers from freezing
>
> The dairy are kept in groups of 50 therefore a waterer of a size to
>satisfy the drinking needs of 50 Hosltein is desirable.
>
> We are still experimenting with numbers of pigs that we intend to
>group so variants on waterer sizes will be needed.
>
>Thank-you,
>Nila Martyniuk
>MAJSKOYE FARM
>Ukraine
>380 562 37 04 47
>
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