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PortaTroughs
™
…for all seasons!
Key Benefits
• Strong, tough and durable.
• Economical.
• Difficult for sheep or goats to tip over.
• Stack inside each other for easy
movement and storage—up to 10
PortaTroughs per stack.
• Easy to stack and carry on ATVs or
farm vehicles.
• Side hole allows trough to be inverted
with a hand or toe to tip out water/ice.
• Rounded inner base—won’t break if
ice forms in it.
• Deliverable by UPS, etc.
FAQs
Do sheep or goats upset them?
Rarely
unless they have horns (our goats hook
the side opening and upset them).
Can animals step in them?
The inner
base is round and slick so sheep and goats
dislike stepping in them unless forced by
others to do so.
Do they fill up with water?
Yes,
unless you drill a hole in the bottom.
After a rain they must be emptied before
use. The side hole allows a trough to be
easily overturned by toe or hand.
What happens when ice forms in
the troughs?
The rounded inner trough
allows ice to expand upward as it freezes.
To remove, use the built-in handhold
to lift, tip them over and tap them on the
bottom with your foot.
Do PortaTroughs freeze down into
mud?
Yes. But a quick jar on the side with
the heel of a boot usually frees them.
Are they unbreakable?
They don’t
break easily but like most things they are
breakable (unfortunately).
We’ve proven that driving over
them with tractors will break them—
though ATVs rarely do. Cattle and
horses do them “no good.” And age
eventually makes most things, including
PortaTroughs, less resilient to impact.
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