Calves and the Frostfree Nosepump

The dynamic that the Frostfree Nosepump was developed within prevented us, the developers, from needing to supplement our calves with any other water source.  In the bottom portion of this page, we share a wealth of data that supports not needing to have a supplementary water source for calves on mothers in summer pasture situations.  The most influential two factors of this dynamic are as follows;

1. Mothers with an abundance of milk.  Jim Anderson developed his Frostfree Nosepump in the latter part of his farming career.  As such, over the previous decades of farming, he had proudly developed a mature, consistent, Simmental cross cow herd that uniformly exhibited a number of desirable characteristics including good milking udders.
2. A particularly shallow water source.  On the Anderson farm, we are blessed with a consistently high water table throughout most of our land base.  With the exception of one of our wet wells, the static water level in all of our Frostfree Nosepump locations is 15′ or less.  As our device is manually operated, the shallower the static water level of the water source, the less force it takes to operate the pump.  As such, the shallower the static water level of a source, the broader the scope of animals is that will be able to use it.