Livestock Farm Practice

STREAMS AND PONDS

• This is the most common method of watering animals by taking them in large flocks and herds to some surface water sources like lakes and rivers and ponds. This is practiced under rural conditions either when the animals are sent to fields at a a long distance or when transported by walk from place to place to market. It is the cheap and convenient method but not a hygienic one. If animal are watered from one source, certain hygienic precautions must be observed to prevent contamination. Animals should be prevented from wading into water directly polluting the source with dung and urine, by providing suitable hurdles at the edge of the stream. The approach top the watering site should be provided with a cement concrete path way with a slope away from the stream.