Bev Feeds This Morning
Bev got the privilege of feeding horses this morning. I was on the phone with my son, Shawn. Seems he as picked up a few Trojans, and wanted to know how to shed them.
It was pretty mild this morning. The ground was still solid, but water wasn’t frozen. We have “quick disconnect” fittings on the frost free’s at the horses and sheep. It doesn’t take a lot of cold to freeze up those little ball bearings that lock around the collar of hose. I have found that if you run just a second of water through the frost free, it is usually enough to free them up and will take the hose easily.
Usually it gets warm enough during the day that if the hose is left laying straight out during the day it is fine for the night watering. Then at the PM feeding, the hose gets drained, disconnected and hung up inside the barn.
It’s a lot better than 2 yrs ago when we had 200′ of hose stretched out from the greenhouse to the barn. That was a nightmare to drain a hose that long and still have it freeze up.
Dusty getting his morning kiss on the nose in one of his more mellow moments.
Cindy
