DIY Livestock Feeding/Watering Troughs

Instead of going to the local Feed Store or Tractor Supply Store to buy a feeding and watering trough for your livestock, save money by making it yourself. Feeding and watering troughs average in cost stating around $160.00, and with the economy the way it is now, we can all use ways to help save cash. Here is how you can make a livestock feeding and watering trough.

What you need:

50 gallon Plastic Barrel

Hammer

Nails

4-2 x 6 Boards

Electric or Hand Saw

Black Marker

All you do to make this is sit the barrel up on one end and then take the black marker and place the tip of the marker at the top of the barrel and draw a straight line right down the middle of the barrel and go all the way down to the bottom making sure that the line stays straight. Next, lay the barrel down on the ground and take the saw (be careful and do not let the saw slip from your hands because the plastic barrel is very slippery) and begin at the top of the barrel where the black mark starts and saw down the black line you made with the marker and continue around the bottom of the barrel and up the other side until the barrel has been cut into two halves.

Next, take one of the 2 x 6 boards and place it on the bottom of one of the halves and nail it to the barrel. Nail another board to the other end of the half. Do the exact same thing to the other half of the barrel. Now you have two feeding troughs, or two watering troughs or one of each. You can also use a black magic marker and write anything on the troughs that you want. Write the name of your farm, ranch, your livestock names, etc.