For the past week we have had extremely cold weather along with a covering of ice and snow. Anyone with livestock had double duty getting liquid water and food to the animals.

If you didn’t have an underground water distribution system with freeze-less hydrants and a heated well, you were probably running out of liquid water in your troughs. There were probably piles of ice beside the troughs that you couldn’t even use.  Of course you can always improvise with a water tanker, but maybe it is time to consider a water distribution system to ease winter watering chores.