LFP 221: Livestock Farm Practice (0+1)

BUCKET WATERING

• Animals can be watered using individual buckets, getting water from different source. Water is taken to the stall and offered to the animal. It is a laborious and uneconomical method. It takes more time and more buckets are required and need to be cleaned daily and further animals will not get sufficient water for drinking. There will be much spillage of water. But it is a hygienic method during the time of epidemics and in isolation loose boxes when disease may spread through polluted community watering