i do have the muck heap from all the stables, but i would have to keep the water barrels burried under it all, and have a hose coming out to get the water from them, and that would freeze...hmm...last year before the worst of it we got a 300gallon oil drum thing that hadnt been used, we stored...
omg i cant believe ye have all those heated troughs etc. in ireland the last 2 winters have been pretty bad, we're used to very wet but not very cold. we had 6 weeks straight last winter without water. for a while we had a hose pipe running from the bathroom out the window and filling water...