Pruex dairy cows water treatment

[Durry cows]

Looking to start using pruex product to “clean” water. On a borehole that is good but this will in theory populate it with good bacteria. I know there’s been other threads with positive results but are there now some long term users with pleasing results or even people that have stopped using it without noticing a difference? Would also look to use the bedding product if the water is successful

 

[Tasteless]

Thought I'd had good success with the good bacteria bedding powders, have tried easy bed pro and cobiotex. Swapped to mschippers daycare des and I've got to say it's done a job brought cell counts from 135-150 down to 80-90. Instantly, cell counts were lower on bulk sample test, almost uncanny, big reduction in low level mast cases too. Something I think the good buggs made worse. Now we are more likely to get ecoli cases but cases all around are reduced for sure.
Id probably apply this same anecdote to water treatment and I do believe dosing a rumen safe / tasteless chemical is probably best bet Vs good bacteria. Again think mschippers do a product called Dio clean. Which I've been looking at, although reluctant to do as we waste a lot of borehole water on plate cooler.

 

[Horn&corn]

Thought I'd had good success with the good bacteria bedding powders, have tried easy bed pro and cobiotex. Swapped to mschippers daycare des and I've got to say it's done a job brought cell counts from 135-150 down to 80-90. Instantly, cell counts were lower on bulk sample test, almost uncanny, big reduction in low level mast cases too. Something I think the good buggs made worse. Now we are more likely to get ecoli cases but cases all around are reduced for sure.
Id probably apply this same anecdote to water treatment and I do believe dosing a rumen safe / tasteless chemical is probably best bet Vs good bacteria. Again think mschippers do a product called Dio clean. Which I've been looking at, although reluctant to do as we waste a lot of borehole water on plate cooler.

Guess you need a tank to recover the plate cooler water

 

[sjt01]

Looking to start using pruex product to “clean” water. On a borehole that is good but this will in theory populate it with good bacteria. I know there’s been other threads with positive results but are there now some long term users with pleasing results or even people that have stopped using it without noticing a difference? Would also look to use the bedding product if the water is successful

We have been Pruex treating our borehole water for at least 6 years now, initially to get rid of Pseudomonas mastitis, which it did well. It also keeps drinking tanks slime free, so worth it just for that.
Cubicle bedding works better than cubicle lime for us, and much nicer to apply, and kinder to udders.
Tried the udder spray and footbath foam, not convinced by them so back to iodine and formalin. The foam blew all over the farmyard, hardly any ever ended up on feet.

 

[Tasteless]

Guess you need a tank to recover the plate cooler water

Have 4. Trouble is robot plate cooler is on 24/7.

 

[upnortheast]

Have 4. Trouble is robot plate cooler is on 24/7.

Our plate cooler water is switched on when a milk pump starts. Runs on for 20 seconds after.
Standard set up on red robots.

 

[Wesley]

Our plate cooler water goes into a big tank that then supplies the troughs in the robot shed. Got a valve in the tank that opens & tops it up if the water ever drops below a certain level. So it can never run dry.