Water is a key ingredient

High quality water should be readily available for the animals concerned, since low-quality water can quickly lead to all kinds of problems, resulting in a lowering of the technical results. The best practice is therefore to check the drinking water annually. In so doing, it is important that samples be taken both at the source and at the drinking places. Different analytical results are often observed because a lot of water decays along the way due to unclean automatic drinkers, an excessively high ambient temperature, an excessively low flow rate, all kinds of additives and residues, too many unnecessary bends, dead-end pieces, etc. Even out in the field it is easy to determine whether the quality is too poor. All you have to do is fill a clear bottle with water at a drinking place. If, after shaking, no flakes can be seen and if, after four hours, the water does not smell, than the chances are already very good that the water is suitable as drinking water.