Hylife – JV ranch is a 100 cow calf operation. The project consists of a summer system and dugout fencing. A dugout was fenced off excluding cattle from it, while a new water system with multiple drinking troughs was installed. The watering system is suppled from a well that was located 350 meters away.
HyLife – JV Ranch Livestock Management Project
~10 miles south of La Broquerie
Benefits
- Clean reliable source of drinking water available year round
- Livestock have no access to dugout preventing
- Watering being supplied form well more cost effective than a watering system installed being installed at dugout
Characteristics
- 100 cow calf pairs
- Watering stem fed off nearby well
- Dugout fenced are cattle are permanently excluded
