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If you need a large capacity feed trough that is cheap and will last forever, just buy a new plastic culvert. They come in many sizes buy 15 inches in diameter is the most common. They typically come 20 feet long too at $200 bucks. That sounds like a lot, but take your skill saw and split the culvert in two length way giving you two long plastic U shaped troughs. Mount to 2x4's so they are at the proper height and won't roll, and for 200 bucks you have a 40 foot long feed trough. That is $5 dollars a foot. My local store sells troughs at $110 dollars for 8 feet or $13.75 per foot.
I love vegetarians...slice them real thin, dip them in ranch dressing and they compliment lamb quite well! :-)
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| Nice one Drawbar, now how would you do then ends. What thickness of a culvert are you talking about?
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I don't think I would do the ends with anything that way you could just wash out the feed trough with a hose...especially if it was tilted one way or the other. If you tilted it, rain water would never collect in it either.
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Oh one word of caution...do not try and cheat and use a metal culvert. Most of those culverts are galvanized, which is 99.9% zinc. Zinc, being a mineral, is absorbed by the body and too high a concentration can be lethal. Since it is a heavy metal it never leaves the body. Using a galvanized culvert for a feed trough would cause the sheep to get zinc into their bodies every time they ate. YOU DON"T WANT THAT!
Just a word of caution, but I am sure most people already knew that.
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| Putting it on the tilt and not putting ends one will elevate the hole question that I was going to ask for drainage...LOL... Got to love it though.
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| What a great idea! I've been trying to think of something to put hay in...the wall holders just caused too much eye infections for my horses.
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