How to Keep Livestock Water from Freezing Without Electricity

Knowing how to keep livestock water from freezing without electricity can make use of tires, saving you worry and work come winter. It's simple to learn how to make a tire water tank.

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Knowing how to keep livestock water from freezing without electricity can make use of tires, saving you worry and work come winter. It’s simple to learn how to make a tire water tank.

The past few winters have been brutally cold on our homestead in northeastern Pennsylvania. The frigid temperatures have caused my goats’ water buckets to freeze solid in just a few hours. I don’t have electricity in the pasture to supply heated buckets for the animals, so I needed a low-tech, inexpensive way to keep the water from freezing so fast.

How to Keep Livestock Water from Freezing with Used Tires

  1. My husband stacked two 14-inch tires together, drilled holes through the sidewalls, and connected them with bolts. He used large washers to prevent the bolts from pulling through.
  • Updated on Jan 17, 2024
  • Originally Published on Nov 5, 2015
Tagged with: goats, livestock, sheep, waterers
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