Water Trough and Supply Check
Record the water round, which is the one daily job where a missed fault becomes an emergency within hours.
LK-36 1 page
Livestock and smallholding · LK-40
Smallholding Daily Chore Round
A free printable smallholding daily checklist — the morning and evening round written so that somebody else could do it for three days.
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One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
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What this sheet is for
Get the daily round out of your head and onto a page, so a neighbour, a relative or a sitter can keep the holding running while you are away.
Who it is for
Smallholders, homesteaders and anyone who has ever tried to explain the round over the phone.
How to use it
- Write it for the person covering, not for yourself.
- Put the vet's number and the emergency contact at the top, not the bottom.
- Say where the feed is and how much, in a way a stranger could follow.
- Leave the sheet somewhere obvious with the notes section blank for them to fill.
What is on the sheet
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: The morning and evening round on one page, so somebody else can do it when you cannot.
Write it for the person covering for you. The real test of this sheet is whether a neighbour could work the holding from it for three days. Write it for them, not for you — the things you do without thinking are exactly the ones that get missed.
Write-on lines: Holding · Stock kept · Emergency contact · Vet practice and number · Feed kept where
Morning round
- Count every animal and look at each one
- Water checked and flowing in every trough and drinker
- Feed as written on the feed sheet
- Eggs collected
- Any animal not right — note it below and ring the number above
- Gates and fences as you found them
Evening round
- Count again
- Water topped and, in frost, broken and refilled
- Feed as written
- Poultry shut in and the pop-hole secure
- Anything moved, note where it went
Ruled lines: What happened today, and anything the owner needs to know
Questions
How detailed should it be?
Detailed enough that somebody who has never fed your animals could do it correctly. The things you do without thinking — which gate sticks, which hen hides, which drinker leaks — are exactly what gets missed.
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