Trough (container)
A trough is a large, open, elongated container that is mainly used to hold pet food ( feed trough ) or drinking water for humans and animals ( water trough ). A trough generally stands in a fixed place directly on the floor, in contrast to a transportable bucket .
Examples are drinking troughs in pastures or the catch basins at water points in the mountains. The latter thus represent the simplest form of a well .
Troughs for cattle feed in stables ("pig trough", but also for horses, sheep and cattle) were originally made of wood, but increasingly also of stone and ceramic.
A feed container suitable for hay and straw in cattle, donkey or horse stables or for game in the forest is called a crib (typical: wooden slat construction) or a hayrack (building material wood, metal or plastic) (see also Christmas crib ).
See also: baking trough
literature
- Johann Gottfried Dingler (Ed.): Dingler's polytechnic journal. Volume 41. JD Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart 1831.
