Abstract:
Water is very essential to the lives of cattle and the more the cattle takes water, the more the
benefits from them. Therefore, this calls for cattle drinking clean water. Water pumped to the
drinking places (troughs) is always clean but due their openness, the water gets contaminated. The contaminates are both from the cattle themselves and other external factors. The contaminated water causes water borne diseases to the cattle.
The methods in place that are used are motion detections in a motion detector water pump system, animal nose operation in animal operated nose pump system and automatic water fountains. These methods used have some weakness and thus the designed system solves these weaknesses. The designed system is a water trough management system that is always closed and only opens when the cattle have come to take the water.
This system when employed on the farms will enable cattle access only clean water since the
trough is ever closed. It only opens when the cattle have come to take water and then water begins flowing from the tank to it. The external factors have no access to the inside of the trough. The water pumped to the trough is clean and safe to drink. The remaining water that the cattle have drunk on is considered dirty and is pumped out. The system has a provision for cleaning it in case the farmer wants to clean it.
In conclusion, the system reduces the water borne diseases in cattle that come up due to openness
of the water troughs where water gets contaminated by closing the trough hence disenabling
external factors to have access to the inside of the trough.
