The bad thing about keeping livestock is that you can’t go away and leave them to die horribly if you feel like it. Well you can, but it’ll get you on the evening news.
Enter Joel’s Rent-a-hermit! For a low, low daily fee (or other consideration) a smelly recluse will show up in your yard, throw them some hay, and break the ice on their waterers! Joel’s Rent-a-hermit! Call today!
Do you do house cats? We have three. FYI, one weighs 24 pounds. Wait, lemme guess: your rates for cats are quadruple those for heavy livestock, yes? Wise man…
Enter Joel’s Rent-a-hermit! For a low, low daily fee (or other consideration) a smelly ARMED recluse will show up in your yard, throw them some hay, and break the ice on their feeders! Joel’s Rent-a-hermit! Call today!
Fixed that for you…now you can charge more!
Joel, you should bring a chunk of that stock tank ice home with you, let it thaw, and see if freezing reduced its hardness. If so, you might have found another source of softened water.
Umm, water with horse slobber is to be used for………….?
Micheal – that might be a good idea. When I freeze my hard, filtered tap water into ice cubes, I have floaters – well really, sinkers – in the bottom of the glass. You could decant off the top 3/4 – 7/8 of the container.
Wonder how much lower the mineral content is in the melted ice water? Hmmm – to find out, would you boil a pot of melted ice water vs. straight from the tap, dry? Then, compare the mineralization left in the the two containers. Might be interesting experiment.