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Proposing Solutions for Water Trough Safety

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BUYER BEWARE! Lessons on a farm sometimes cost more than money!

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What happens here

To prevent similar incidents, the farmer details his plans to modify the water tanks. He intends to weld a piece of iron across the top of the large stock tanks, creating a narrower opening that would only allow a cow's head to fit for drinking, thus preventing an entire animal from falling in. Additionally, he plans to add 'skateboard tape' (a gritty, gravelly tape) to the bottom of the tanks after thoroughly cleaning them. This adhesive tape would provide crucial traction, enabling an animal that accidentally falls in to 'kick its way out' and escape. He emphasizes that these measures are a response to the unclear circumstances of the calf's death.

Goal: The farmer outlines his plans to modify the water tanks to prevent future calf entrapment and highlights the need for constant vigilance.

Tools and materials

  • Piece of Iron
  • Skateboard Tape (Gritty/Gravelly)

What they say

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get up on it why would it go into here why in the world would it go into a big stock tank like that I have no earthly idea whatsoever I dunno what I'm gonna do to prevent this is I'm gonna weld a piece of iron across the top of these stock tanks so that the cow can only get its head down in there and that way maybe we won't have this problem again why in the world that baby calf got inside here it's uncovered a little bit why in the world that baby calf got inside that stock tank I will never never know I just will never know so this is my message to you this is real life this is real world this is real farming when you go to a sale light and you buy your cows at auction I just advise against it I advise against it I advise against that entire system and you might be a cattle farmer and you might have been farming cows for years and years and that's fine I think people are culling their cows and this cow has a nice big healthy mama cow I think she's pregnant she looks pregnant and I don't think her baby is the one that's in this tank I think they stuck another calf with her and ran her through the market I think she was a cull and the baby was a cull maybe the mother passed away or something like that and this calf took up with that mama she's upset but she should be like Moo like like pining for that baby and she's not she's not looking for it she's not pining for it whenever we called the calves up here and this is kind of long-winded and I'm sorry about that but I want you guys to learn from this just as I'm learning from it when all these animals come running up for food in their feed trough and we don't really grain them a lot we're just kind of training them to follow us the baby calf was the last one every single time beyond the shadow of a doubt sometimes it would be way off over the hill here and mama cow just showed no interest in the baby so it's really strange really weird when you buy a cow from the sale lot buyer beware buy your cattle from a reliable source I'm reading a lot of books on cattle I'm learning a lot as I go here hopefully at some point we're gonna go up and we're gonna visit Polyface farm we're gonna talk with Joel Salatin I want to spend the day with him and I want to learn learn learn and that's what this is all about buyer beware and if you have big stock tanks like this and you've got young calves I've never seen this calf even remotely near the big water tank she's always drank from the from the big water tank like I've…

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