Water

[frustratedearthmother]

Ewwwww - that is not a good mental picture, bay! Reminds me of the time our cat fell into an above ground pool we had at the time...kinda ugh! There almost wasn't enough shock and chlorine to make me feel good about going in it again.

We have two of the big totes, a hot tub, and a pond. I need to think about a good filter for the pond water if it came down to that.

 

[goatgurl]

ickkk @ baymule, you made me throw up in my mouth a little bit!!!

 

[baymule]

I have a "squirrel stick" in the big 300 gallon galvanized tank I water the horses with. That is because squirrels would get in for a drink, then drown. I had to bail out the tank, scrub and refill, not to mention the poor squirrel. So a tree branch propped on the edge provides a handy way for squirrels to get in the tank, get a drink and get back out. I have seen all kinds of birds drinking from the squirrel stick as well.

and about the dead cat soup---it was the first thing that popped in my mind and flowed right to my finger tips. I really have a twisted humor at times.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

LOL - I laughed at it even if it was twisted!

 

[Smart Red]

@frustratedearthmother, your post brought a pop-up ad for in-ground pools. Look though I might, I couldn't see a cat in the pool, though.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

LOL - wouldn't be good advertising would it?

 

[k15n1]

the water in the spa

We have a huge pool but that's full of chemicals. It'd have to be distilled to be useful. What about your spa? Is that buffered and chlorinated? What else do you put in it to keep it from getting slimy?

 

[Britesea]

We haven't used the spa in a couple of years and I haven't added any chemicals to it. It's heated just barely enough to keep it from freezing. I've looked under the cover a few times, looking for algae and other weirdnesses, but it looks and smells fine. I would definitely filter it before using it though.

 

[rhoda_bruce]

I have a 250 gallon tank, I have neglected putting near the barn for a long time, but need to. Want to prepare its permanent home first with a slab and then put a small deck to hold the thing, up on, so have some kind of water pressure.
My intent was to have nipple waterers in each stall for the birds and something for the goat too, but I have muscovies and even though they are so much cleaner than the other ducks, they still mess up the water. What I'm afraid of, is that I will fix them a nipple waterer and there will be some back up and I will have dirty water lines, just like I do with the 30 gallon waterer I now am using in the coop.
I figured if I can have the birds getting rain water and have another 250 gallon tank, later put on the opposite side of the barn for the garden, then in a pinch, I could use that water.
Also, I recall someone on a thread....maybe here, or maybe BYC, that did this, and to keep the algae down, they kept an algae eater in the tank, along with a gold fish, whose sole purpose was to eat mesquito larvae. She claimed that she kept a special hose all the way at the bottom (where the poop would be), for the garden and anything that required clean water, was taken at a higher level. Made sense to me.
When I first married, my GM-IL had a big cystern in her backyard. FIL told me when he was young, they used to have to clean it out, just before the rainy season and some very, not so nice things, would be in the water. Bird skeletons and such. They'd just empty the tank and remove the yuck and scrub it clean and wait for God to fill it up again. And even if it was dirty, they knew thats where their drinking water came from.
Its nice to be prepared for a few of life's little emergencies.

 

[Denim Deb]

I've been telling the other boarders that they need to have a way to water their horses if there's a power outage. There's automatic waterers in most of the fields. So, if the power goes out, there's no water. Last week, the power was out for more than a day. My horses were fine. Others were panicking. So, they may actually listen to me now.