A watering trough (or artificial watering point) is a man-made or natural receptacle intended to provide drinking water to animals,
livestock
Livestock are the Domestication, domesticated animals that are raised in an Agriculture, agricultural setting to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, Egg as food, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool. The t ...
on farms or ranches or wild animals.
History
In
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...
, the watering trough is established so that sheep, cattle and other domesticated animals can drink, but native species such as
kangaroo
Kangaroos are marsupials from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot"). In common use, the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the red kangaroo, as well as the antilopine kangaroo, eastern gre ...
s may be attracted. To reduce this, some water troughs are designed to reduce their use of the trough or exclude them from that use. One design is the "Finlayson Trough", which uses a low-lying
electrified wire that sheep usually step over but kangaroos cannot.
Watering troughs were very common in many towns and cities as a means for
horse
The horse (''Equus ferus caballus'') is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 mi ...
s to drink while they were tethered to a post. In 1927 animal lovers, Annis and George Bills, funded the building of up to 500 watering troughs in Australia, Ireland, England and the United States. Many can still be seen today inscribed with ''Donated by Annis and George Bills Australia''.
Nowadays, manufacturers provide a variety of water troughs for animals made of different materials. Permanent access to freshwater is essential to all animals, especially to dairy cows. The more water a cow drinks, the more milk she produces.
Abreuvoir
An ''
abreuvoir
A watering trough (or artificial watering point) is a man-made or natural receptacle intended to provide drinking water to animals, livestock on farms or ranches or wild animals.
History
In Australia, the watering trough is established so t ...
'' is a watering trough, fountain, or other installed basin: originally intended to provide humans and/or animals at a rural or urban watering place with fresh drinking water. They were often located at
springs. In pre–automobile era cities, they were built as equestrian water troughs for horses providing transportation. In contemporary times, ''abreuvoirs'' are also seen as civic or private fountains in the designed townscape-landscape.
; Translations
* English: Watering trough, basin trough fountain
* Spanish: ''Abrevadero''
* French: ''Abreuvoir, fontaine pour les animaux''
* German: ''Tränke''
* Italian: ''Abbeveratoio''
In
stonemasonry
Stonemasonry or stonecraft is the creation of buildings, structures, and sculpture using rock (geology), stone as the primary material. Stonemasonry is the craft of shaping and arranging stones, often together with Mortar (masonry), mortar ...
, as an old or obsolete term, an ''abreuvoir'' is a joint or interstice between two stones, to be filled with
mortar by a stonemason.
File:Castiglione_delle_Stiviere_-_Fontana.jpg, Abreuvoir fountain, Castiglione delle Stiviere
Castiglione delle Stiviere ( Upper Mantovano: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Mantua, in Lombardy, Italy, northwest of Mantua by road.
History
The town's castle was home to a cadet branch of the House of Gonzaga, headed by the Marq ...
, Fontana, Italy.
File:Fregenal_de_la_Sierra_abrevadero.JPG, Abrevadero (abreuvoir), in Fregenal de la Sierra
Fregenal de la Sierra (originally Frexnal or Frexenal) is a municipality located in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain.
Geography
Fregenal de la Sierra is located in the Sierra Suroeste comarca (county), among the small hills and rav ...
, Extremadura
Extremadura ( ; ; ; ; Fala language, Fala: ''Extremaúra'') is a landlocked autonomous communities in Spain, autonomous community of Spain. Its capital city is Mérida, Spain, Mérida, and its largest city is Badajoz. Located in the central- ...
, Spain.
File:Saint-Aventin_fontaine_abreuvoir.JPG, ''Fontaine-abreuvoir à Saint-Aventin'', Haute-Garonne
Haute-Garonne (; , ; ''Upper Garonne'') is a department in the southwestern French region of Occitanie. Named after the river Garonne, which flows through the department. Its prefecture and main city is Toulouse, the country's fourth-largest. ...
, France.
See also
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List of watering troughs in Karachi
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Bills horse troughs
*
Fountain of Sant Agustí Vell
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Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association, a 19th-century charity that built watering troughs in London
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Stock tank
See ''Stock tank oil'' for oil industry stock tank definition.
A stock tank is used to provide drinking water for animals such as cattle or horses. Stock tanks can range in size from 100 liters to over 5500 liters (30 to 1500 gallons) and typi ...
Citations
General and cited references
; Attribution
* {{1728
External links
Locations of Bills Horse Trough
Agricultural technology
Water supply