Trough Clean – Clean drinking water for thirsty stock
Unless you have natural watercourses or dams placed in convenient locations around your property, you are going to be reliant on stock watering troughs and drums to maintain animal hydration.
Horse Watering
Generally, horses would rather go thirsty than drink water contaminated by chemicals, insects, leaves, algae or manure. Smaller watering troughs or drums are a great way to monitor your horses water intake and should really only contain enough sitting water to last 3 days. Water sitting for longer intervals run the risk of stagnation and algae buildup. Horses will only drink stagnant water in cases of extreme dehydration and will never fully quench their thirst unless they like the taste of the water.
Cattle Watering
In all eco-systems bacteria plays an important role in the breakdown and decay of organic matter that finds its way into the trough.
This organic matter can be composed of decaying vegetation, animal manure, fish excrement and decomposing animal carcasses. The decay of these components breaks down into an excess nutrient that is the food source for algaes and other weeds.
Heavy seasonal rain also adds to the nutrient levels with the introduction of extra nitrogen. Algae blooms usually follow increases in temperature and/or heavy rainfall. Consider that inflow can be made up of manure, silt, fertilizers and debris runoff after rain.
HOW BACTERIA HELPS
Trough Clean’s high concentrations of specially selected beneficial bacteria, uniquely blended with amino acids and an oxygenation agent to ensure high rates of biomass growth helps to control the balance in these sensitive eco-systems.
This rapid biomass growth is what gives Trough Clean the ability to quickly digest organic solids and reduces the nutrient levels in a dam and in turn this lessens the severity of algae strikes.
Working from the bottom up, Trough Clean consumes the nutrients that algae need to survive leaving irrigation and watering dams clean and clear. Traditional algaecides merely poison the algae which then sinks to the bottom increasing the organic loading and severity of future blooms.
A NATURAL SOLUTION
In troughs with an existing problem, the bacteria will slowly digest the nutrients from the water and outcompete the algae to the point of starvation. Once the algae has died, it will sink to the bottom to be slowly consumed by the bacteria. When the food source has been depleted the bacteria will die back to natural levels.
This eco-cycle gradually cleans out the trough of any organic matter that may be adding to the silt and sludge in the trouugh which reduces the water capacity. On average up to 75% of the sludge in the bottom of your trough can be organic matter. Often the reduction in sludge will negate the requirement for manual cleanin of troughs
The reduction of decaying organic matter can also help to floc the trough by reducing the amount of suspended organic solids floating in the water and allowing the heavier silt to drop to the bottom. In most cases there would be no need for expensive and harmful chemical floculants. Unlike some chemical solutions, bacteria does not degrade the surface of concrete, fibreglass or plastic containers. Bacteria will also strip algae from hard to reach concrete crevices and porous surfaces.
ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE
Trough Clean is a proven, cost-effective and environmentally safe solution for your trough cleaning. The product will not harm livestock, fish, other aquatic life, or plants with roots extending into the soil. Slowly cleans out the algae and slime to the point where no hand cleaning of the troughs should be necessary!