Posted by bc on November 12, 2008 at 17:58:21 from (68.88.175.43):
In Reply to: hauling water posted by Chris in ND on November 12, 2008 at 13:07:21:
Guess I'm with Michael. Quit drinking out of gas cans when I was a kid.
I've seen animals eat and drink from anything and then seen them get finicky and not. Hate to see your lose your herd to some weird ailment and die or have them go off feed and water because of it.
With all the lab testing being done nowadays and all these consumer groups whining about every little feed additive that isn't organic, about the time some carcinogen like MTBE from gas and diesel shows up in your meat, your farm is done.
Either way, even our government economists would say its not worth saving a $100 and lose a few hundred thousand bucks in a herd cause of some adverse reaction, death, or taint in the meat and then all the vet bills that could go with it.
The gov follows the whole food chain when something goes wrong somewhere be it salmonella poisoning or some minuute spec of insecticide put in a grain bin that then gets fed later. They all get blacklisted and quarantined. With mad cows around, they are watching the food chain very close.
My opinion on your question: Plastic tanks are very hard to clean. With steel, constant flushing with water and dawn or other dish soap or the green degreaser and then flush the soap out. Kinda hard to flush out a sealed tank and get much flushing done. I clean open round stock tanks all the time with a hose and bleach sometimes but they flush easy.
I suppose you can find 50 people on this board who has done it with no problem but they didn't used to test cattle and sheep the way they do now. If your meat get rejected down the road by some lab test, it might break you.
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