PortaTrough™ 3
Heavy-duty 3 ft feeder used to provide grain, minerals, salt or water to animals. Portable for easy movement and stackable for storage.
Need a larger trough? See PortaTrough™ 5.
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Common Uses
- Used to provide feed to a ram or two on pasture or to feed a small pen of show lambs or goat kids.
- Excellent all-purpose trough for birds and small animals works well for providing feed or water to waterfowl (which consume case quantities of water!)
- Feed livestock protection dogs and puppies without worrying about the feeder being tipped over by a playful puppy (or ewe).
Specs
- Measures 34" long by 12.25" wide at bottom
- Measures 32.25" long by 10" wide at top
- Depth is 5.25"
- 4.5 gallon capacity
Benefits
- Difficult for animals to tip over.
- Stackable for easy movement and storage.
- Side handle allows it to be inverted with a toe to tip out water or ice.
- High sides prevent feed from being knocked out and wasted.
- Won't break if water freezes in it.
- Rounded inner base is slick so sheep and goats dislike stepping in them.
- Depth of water allows waterfowl to bathe their heads to their eyes and nostrils.
Listed below are recommended optional components or related items. Your particular situation may require alternative recommendations. Please call and talk to our consultants if there are any questions at 800-282-6631.
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Buckets and Troughs
Round Bucket with Lid, 1 gal
Item #564300 -Easily feed and water individual sheep, goats or chickens. They stack without sticking and are easy to clean.
$5.10 -
Buckets and Troughs
Round Bucket with Lid, 2 gal
Item #564400 -An inexpensive all-purpose bucket for feeding or watering lambs, goat kids or chickens. They stack without sticking and are easy to clean.
$7.00 -
Buckets and Troughs
Round Bucket, 3.5 gallon
Item #564500 -An inexpensive all-purpose chore bucket. Use to feed or water sheep, goats and chickens.
$7.90 -
Buckets and Troughs
Square Bucket without lid, 4 gallon
Item #564800 -An excellent bucket for general farm use. Whether it's providing milk to orphaned animals or hauling feed.
$11.00 -
Buckets and Troughs
Square Bucket without lid, 2 gallon
Item #564801 -An inexpensive way to easily feed orphan lambs and goat kids. Also use to carry feed, mineral and water to lambs, goat kids and poultry.
$8.00 -
Books
From The Feed Trough
Item #986110 -A collection of articles from livestock nutritionist, Woody Lane. In depth, informative and very helpful knowledge for livestock producers.
$29.00
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Cynthia M from Texas
My ram lambs still try to stand in it. The short one is long enough for my 4 ram lambs to feed at once.
Matthew D from Florida
I use this feeder for my 3 chickens and two ducks, and it works well enough, although it does have some faults.
Some things I DO like about it is it's deeper than I thought, It would work well for water but I use it as a kind of trough. It's also very heavy, I can imagine it might be hard for small hogs and sheep to knock around.
What I DON'T like about it is it's VERY overpriced, after all it's only a piece of warped plastic, you guys need to lower the price to maybe 29.00 bucks, not 40. That was my two cents.
Mike/becky L
Love these troughs. Had been using dog pans to feed. What a lot of work that was. Now I just empty the bag of feed into the troughs and walk away. No need to pick up pans. What an easy way to feed. The troughs are sturdy and they have a nice foot hole so you can dump out any rain water without even bending over to do it.
Ann P from Western Washington State
I bought this for all of our wild critters that we feed. The handle makes it very easy to carry, it is deeper than I thought, but it is working out really well. I do have concern about rain since it is outside, but we will see what happens. Very sturdy. The squirrels have not been able to tip it over! The cutest thing so far has been one of the wild bunnies sitting it the trough eating. SOOO CUTE!
Gina S
Easy to use, easy to clean, keeps the poultry happy.
I bought one of these, and liked it so much I went back and bought another. I have an "accidental" pet duck in my laying flock of chickens, and I was looking for something easier to keep clean and sturdier than a kiddie pool.
Not only does Bernadette The Weather Duck® (she has her own Facebook fan page, silly thing!) love the troughs, but the chickens do, also.
And, as usual, great service from the team at P1. Love your products, and your catalog is Victoria's Secret for hobby farmers. Can't wait to have room for goats.
Chickens are gateway livestock, aren't they?
