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Sheep drinkers

  • 12-12-2017 1:16pm
    #1
    karolmc100
    Registered Users Posts: 281 ✭✭


    Any advice on good sheep drinker, having issues with jfc sheep bowls


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  • #2
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,220 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    karolmc100 wrote: »
    Any advice on good sheep drinker, having issues with jfc sheep bowls

    What's the problem, I've been using them for years,......are they the blue ones
    Never had any problem,they're better than those fordham galvanised ones, they're always leaking.

    these are the ones I have.
    https://www.orchardequestrian.com/JFC-Drinker-Bowl-Self-Filling.html?gclid=CjwKCAiAmb7RBRATEiwA7kS8VGcUZbWsKf72BhjHQGTBZctptiB39lhsaaZiZ2qUtit-2i9Ik4G2-hoCuEEQAvD_BwE


  • #3
    karolmc100
    Registered Users Posts: 281 ✭✭karolmc100


    They overflow. They don't seem to be able to stop fully after filling leading to a constant drip from the ball cock resulting in overflow from trough.they are the jfc micro trough.


  • #4
    karolmc100
    Registered Users Posts: 281 ✭✭karolmc100


    They overflow. They don't seem to be able to stop fully after filling leading to a constant drip from the ball cock resulting in overflow from trough.they are the jfc micro trough.


  • #5
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,220 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    karolmc100 wrote: »
    They overflow. They don't seem to be able to stop fully after filling leading to a constant drip from the ball cock resulting in overflow from trough.they are the jfc micro trough.

    They're the same as the fordham, they are designed to be run off a header tank, they'll leak no matter what you do if they're connected to a main line. I got special nozzles for the fordhams but they still leaked...... I changed them all for the JFCs then
    These are the ones I had to get rid, some of them had the same ball cock as your troughs.
    Are yours fed from a header tank


  • #6
    karolmc100
    Registered Users Posts: 281 ✭✭karolmc100


    No they off main line, but have special jfc high pressure fitting on them as recommended by jfc for these troughs


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  • #7
    White Clover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,657 ✭✭✭White Clover


    karolmc100 wrote: »
    No they off main line, but have special jfc high pressure fitting on them as recommended by jfc for these troughs

    Put a pressure reducer on the line going to the trough, or as wrangler said, set up a header tank and plumb them from that.


  • #8
    Westernrock
    Registered Users Posts: 283 ✭✭Westernrock


    karolmc100 wrote: »
    No they off main line, but have special jfc high pressure fitting on them as recommended by jfc for these troughs

    Check the nozzle that the ball cock presses against is actually screwed in tight, changed all mine to a header tank and they were still leaking, discovered the nozzles were obviously only ever put in hand tight


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