We have a tank on the place out in Eldorado that looks almost exactly like yours. Maybe a foot deep at the deepest point. Put a timer on your well pump, let it run an hour or two a day. It will keep it up. All you need is a couple inches worth of clean water year round and all the critters will be good. The cost to run the pump an hour or so a day is probably about $5-10 a month if that.
I don't get caught up if I'm using the right vernacular.....it's really not that important to me. My point was made for the average Joe to understand. If this is the worst the day has thrown at me then a great day it is.
A. go with a solar or wind pump
B. bentonite will not solve anything unless you can plow it into the existing soil. It's not a sprinkle and instantly retain water kind of thing.
C. Science is your friend. Get a pond expert from that area to do an assessment, and the local ag extension may also help.
Without these funky watering holes, where would we—much less our cattle and sheep—be today?
Ranchers don’t call them ponds. Ponds are for picnics and pollywogs. Ranchers call them what they are: stock tanks for sheep and cattle, for the dead-serious business of keeping animals alive in a semiarid land plagued by drought.
Most tanks in Texas are murky man-made reservoirs, muddy watering holes ringed by hoofprints and dung, built by ranchers who bulldoze pits or earthen dams across gulleys to catch runoff and hold it awhile. Statistically, the average tank in Texas covers four tenths of an acre, but the official figure is somewhat skewed—in South Texas a tank might cover 25 acres, while in East Texas you can almost jump across some.
Without these funky watering holes, where would we—much less our cattle and sheep—be today?
Ranchers don’t call them ponds. Ponds are for picnics and pollywogs. Ranchers call them what they are: stock tanks for sheep and cattle, for the dead-serious business of keeping animals alive in a semiarid land plagued by drought.
Most tanks in Texas are murky man-made reservoirs, muddy watering holes ringed by hoofprints and dung, built by ranchers who bulldoze pits or earthen dams across gulleys to catch runoff and hold it awhile. Statistically, the average tank in Texas covers four tenths of an acre, but the official figure is somewhat skewed—in South Texas a tank might cover 25 acres, while in East Texas you can almost jump across some.
You get your native slang from Texas Monthly articles?
Without these funky watering holes, where would we—much less our cattle and sheep—be today?
Ranchers don’t call them ponds. Ponds are for picnics and pollywogs. Ranchers call them what they are: stock tanks for sheep and cattle, for the dead-serious business of keeping animals alive in a semiarid land plagued by drought.
Most tanks in Texas are murky man-made reservoirs, muddy watering holes ringed by hoofprints and dung, built by ranchers who bulldoze pits or earthen dams across gulleys to catch runoff and hold it awhile. Statistically, the average tank in Texas covers four tenths of an acre, but the official figure is somewhat skewed—in South Texas a tank might cover 25 acres, while in East Texas you can almost jump across some.
So they should rename it to stocktankboss.com
Instead of pondboss.com?
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