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| In today's age I wouldn't put PVC in. I would do all HDPE. You didn't say how many cattle you want to service, and gpm of well production. Also biggest factor is storage at water troughs and if a storage system. I can water a lot of cows on a 20 gpm pump and 1 1/4" line, also running 4 miles in that system. But key is having storage at troughs. Say 20' to 27' dia ring tanks.
Personally I'll never install any pipe less than 2" HDPE for the simple fact rodents have a harder time getting their mouth around it and eating into it. I've seen them eat into it and as well as 2" PVC, however not very common.
The key to PVC install is proper primering of pipe and glueing. All the failures I deal with is improperly prepping pipe. Plus the freezing of it because failure to install proper drains. Our life has been hell this week dealing with sch 80 3" PVC that had bad glue joints running over 360-380 psi. Plus 98° weather trying to water 1,800 hd. of cattle. Line running over 9 miles up hill and down.
Spend the money and do line right first time, and penlty of storage. We had to run four tankers to just try and get cows watered up this week after breakdowns.
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Pvc vs. Hdpe waterlines for pasture pipeline
