Drinking
Drinking Cup
Bite-action drinking cup that delivers water only while the animal is drinking, and stays clean between.
Engineering plasticBite valve
Drinking Systems
Drinking Bowl
Robust drinker bowl with a float valve, so water is there when the animal wants it and nowhere else.
Cast + stainlessFloat valveLow spill
Product Overview
A nipple line wastes water by design: the animal drinks some and the rest goes through the slat. A bowl with a float valve holds a small reservoir and refills it as it empties, so the pig drinks from standing water and the floor stays drier.
The bowl is built from cast body and stainless components for the wear that a sow gives a drinker, and it works across stages from farrowing through to finishing.
Technical Features
- Cast body with stainless components
- Float valve refill
- Low-spill bowl profile
- Suits farrowing through to finishing
- Mounts on pen division or wall
- Serviceable valve assembly
Made by the factory that sells it.
Moulded and machined components, assembled in-house, produced on our own lines in Ningbo and shipped flat-packed for container export.
Application Scenarios
- All animal stages
- Farrowing to finishing
Used In
Key benefits
Why Buyers Specify This Product
Water stays in the bowl
A float valve refills what is drunk instead of running while the animal is at the drinker.
Drier floor under the drinker
Less spill means less wet slat, which is where wet pens usually start.
Built for sow use
Cast and stainless components survive the leaning and biting a drinker gets in a sow pen.
One drinker across stages
The same bowl serves farrowing through to finishing, so a site carries one spare.
Problems It Solves
Nipple lines soak the floor under them
A bowl only refills what is drunk.
Plastic drinkers fail in sow pens
Cast and stainless components take the abuse.
Water intake drops when drinking is awkward
Standing water in a bowl is the easiest form for a pig to drink from.
Who It Is For
- Sow houses and finishing rooms
- Farms with wet floors under a nipple line
- Producers monitoring water intake as a health indicator
One-factory supply
Flooring, penning, feeding, water and climate are made on the same site, so a room can be specified and shipped as one order.
See the turnkey packageSpecifications
Sizes Codes and Materials
Figures below are taken from the JGM product catalogue. Anything we cannot source from it is marked TBC and confirmed with your quotation rather than estimated.
| Item | Specification |
|---|---|
| Body | Cast, with stainless components |
| Valve | Float valve |
| Stage | All stages, farrowing to finishing |
| Bowl dimensions | TBC confirmed with the quotation |
| Connection | TBC confirm your line size with the enquiry |
| Packing | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Method | Boxed |
| Notes | Carton size and container quantity confirmed with the quotation |
Ask for the full size chart and carton-loading data for your order.
Materials and Manufacturing
Moulded and machined components, assembled in-house. The Drinking Bowl is assembled from moulded and machined components on our own line. Moulded bodies come off the same presses as the rest of the range; stainless and metal parts are sourced to specification and fitted with the fasteners the assembly drawing calls for, so a replacement part years later still fits.
Customisation Options
- Sizes and sections produced to customer requirement on a full-container order
- Colour matched to your existing equipment where the material allows
- Lengths cut to your room rather than to a catalogue dimension
- OEM and private-label production accepted
- Packing and carton marking to your import requirements
Quality Control
- Incoming metal and stainless components checked against specification
- Assembly to a fixed build sheet, not from memory
- Function check on every assembled unit before boxing
- Sample units re-checked at the end of each production batch
Certifications. We do not publish certification claims we cannot evidence.
Tell us what your market requires and we will confirm in writing what can be supplied for this product.
Comparison
How It Compares With Other JGM Products
| Alternative | When to choose it instead |
|---|---|
| Drinking Cup | A bite-action cup delivers on demand and suits smaller animals and tighter spaces. |
| Piglet Drinking Cup | For creep and nursery pens, use the low-flow piglet cup. |
| Water Control Valve | Fit a water control valve upstream so bowls receive a regulated pressure. |
Use guide
Installing and Running It
Step 1
Mount the bowl at the shoulder height of the animals in the pen.
Step 2
Set the supply pressure with a control valve rather than throttling at the bowl.
Step 3
Check float action weekly — a sticking float is the usual cause of a wet pen.
Step 4
Strip and clean the valve at batch change in hard-water areas.
Answers
Drinking Bowl FAQs
What connection size does the bowl take?
Confirm your line size with the enquiry and we will supply the matching fitting; the connection is marked TBC here rather than assuming your installation.
Will a float bowl work on a low-pressure line?
It works best on a regulated supply. Fit a water control valve upstream and tell us the pressure you have available.
Does it suit piglets?
It is sized for sows and finishers. Creep and nursery pens use the low-flow piglet cup instead.
How is the valve serviced?
The valve assembly is designed to be stripped and cleaned in place, which is the routine job in hard-water areas.
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Low-flow piglet cup sized for creep and nursery pens, with a transparent bowl so intake can be seen.
PlasticLow flow
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Water Control Valve
Diaphragm water control valve that holds the right pressure to bowls and nipple lines, all day and every day.
Diaphragm valveRegulated
Partitions
Farrowing / Weaner Penning
Integrated farrowing and weaner penning, engineered around the flooring and feeders that go in the same room.
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Related reading
Guides For This Equipment
Troubleshooting ArticleWhy Drinker Faults Are Usually Pressure Faults
Wet pens, dripping drinkers and animals at the end of a line that never get enough: three symptoms, usually one cause.
Design GuideDesigning a Pig House for Washdown and Biosecurity
Disinfectant only works on a surface it can reach. Most biosecurity failures are surface-design failures, decided when the equipment was specified.
Talk to an engineer
Send your room dimensions and we will specify it
Tell us the room size, the animal stage and the capacity you are aiming at. Our engineers reply with a layout, an equipment list and a quotation.