Slurry Bugs

funkey_monkey

Does any of them work at improving the contents of the tank for agitating?

It was like stirring a midden.

Gudstock

Very hard to beat adding plenty water or pig slurry or both.

I'm feeding bales to sucklers and have tried numerous brands of slurry bugs. I would have doubts about all of them, not sure if they'reanythingmore than molasses. Contractor has noted less smell from the slurry but it keeps coming back to adding more water and emptying and refilling and mixing.

funkey_monkey

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122333155#Comment_122333155

Same here. Feeding out bales. Does the quality of the bale being fed or amount of meal given make much difference?

We were slightly overstocked last winter and with the wet spring had to balls about with the tanks to try and get it thin enough for umbilical spreading.

johnnyw20

I found this year that throwing a couple of tankers of digestate from an AD plant broke my slurry down beautifully

Gudstock

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122333662#Comment_122333662

Not sure, contractor always makes the point of noting that there are "sops" in the tank. Maybe if we fed all silage bales that were fully chopped not just half the blades, it mightnt be as bad…

LESS is a disaster here, comes out of trailing shoe way too thick and lots of blockages.

_Brian

we tried the biology into the tank, actually what we added was for a much bigger tank.

Didn’t find it helped at all when it came to agitation or to reduce odour 🤷🏻

Say my name

There's some slurry bugs shouldn't be sold at all as they are dead at purchase.

It then gives all a bad name. At least if you are getting solution from an AD plant it's live for as long as you keep it live.

If you have water gone out of tank and midden stuff it's impossible to think microbes can mosey up water.

I've had microbes boil over a tank with yeast, make it thicker, make less smell, make it go further on grass, then the opposite depending on product, not work and still smell and still thick.

PoorFarmer

Is there any research on adding LAB to slurry tanks or is it a pointless exercise?