Slury addatives, bugs , inoculants

[davidroberts30]

Next time you stir throw in a sack or two of hydrated lime. Or any high calcium lime. Feeds your microbes.
I'd chuck a bit in throughout the winter. Always did this at home and seldom ever added bugs or such to the lagoon.

Did that stop any crust forming?

On a side note,would slurry bugs and lime work together?

 

[davidroberts30]

Trying bioDigest from Calvin kave View attachment 1007091 through a recommendation, as we usually use some form in our tower. It's working out about 3x dearer than The usual we use- epizym slurry king View attachment 1007092
Put 4 drums in tower Nov 15 when we first pumped across from the lagoon. And one drum into reception lagoon as a top up next time around and got one spare ( enough to treat 380,000 gal.
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some bubbles soon after .
View attachment 1007094nothing of any note in the reception lagoon (been emptied now into tower 3 times )
View attachment 1007097View attachment 1007098View attachment 1007099 tower looks pretty much how I'd expect with no bugs in it. Bit maybe it will analyse well

Same issues as the lagoon here

 

[Great In Grass]

Trying bioDigest from Calvin kave View attachment 1007091 through a recommendation, as we usually use some form in our tower. It's working out about 3x dearer than The usual we use- epizym slurry king View attachment 1007092
Put 4 drums in tower Nov 15 when we first pumped across from the lagoon. And one drum into reception lagoon as a top up next time around and got one spare ( enough to treat 380,000 gal.
View attachment 1007096
some bubbles soon after .
View attachment 1007094nothing of any note in the reception lagoon (been emptied now into tower 3 times )
View attachment 1007097View attachment 1007098View attachment 1007099 tower looks pretty much how I'd expect with no bugs in it. Bit maybe it will analyse well

Do you have the correct product? I can not see any recommendations on the label for it to be used in slurry more for soil applications.

 

[Deerefarmer]

Did that stop any crust forming?

On a side note,would slurry bugs and lime work together?

Never had a crust to speak of.

I'm not a biologist but I read once calcium is like fuel or nourishment to microbial life.

 

[davidroberts30]

Never had a crust to speak of.

I'm not a biologist but I read once calcium is like fuel or nourishment to microbial life.

Just wondering
I can definitely see more action where the fodder beet washings go into the lagoon so think the bugs thrive on a bit of sugar

 

[Deerefarmer]

Just wondering
I can definitely see more action where the fodder beet washings go into the lagoon so think the bugs thrive on a bit of sugar

Definitely. Silage effluent running into a slurry pit will do the same thing as well.

Coors brewing at one point was offering there waste/ spent brewery juices to local farms here who were interested (through a waste brokerage firm) and it would make a slurry pit bubble and foam like mad but it smelled horrible

 

[Lewis]

Do you have the correct product? I can not see any recommendations on the label for it to be used in slurry more for soil applications.

Digest-it® for slurry stores and lagoons | Kelvin Cave Ltd

The shpeel on the drum. -

 

[farmer1989]

Update so 1 of out tanks is full after 50 days cubicle shed so quite thick like porridge we pump from 1 tank to another so the bugs will continue to work in the next tank so far i can tell the the slurry is more of a thin liquid and has taken half the amount of time to pump and using less revs on tractor so all

 

[farmer1989]

 

[jamj]

I've tried them a few times
I really want them to work but cant get them to work as of yet

Max time they could be in lagoon here is about 2-3 months through winter

I pumped out last week and doubled doses the pit with what was left in it so will see what happens
I will top up every few days for a while too to give the best chance

I think (rightly or wrongly) that the bugs need to come alive again in lukewarm water, for a period of time, before adding to slurry. I usually leave in water for 30 mins.

 

[davidroberts30]

I think (rightly or wrongly) that the bugs need to come alive again in lukewarm water, for a period of time, before adding to slurry. I usually leave in water for 30 mins.

That's what I do
Take a bucket of warm water up to the yard with me with a scoop of bugs mixed in and leave it half hour while I move cattle and scrape then splash the bugs over the yard scrapings

 

[davidroberts30]

Pumped out 16/12
No action in the lagoon 11 days laterView attachment 1005550View attachment 1005552
The only thing I have noticed is a few bubbles where the beet washings go into the lagoonView attachment 1005553
But that area was bubbling away a bit before the lagoon was pumped out

something starting to happen

 

[farmer1989]

Not sure if it means anything but pumped slurry with bugs into tower little eruptions poping up all over continued to do so after pump stoped

 

[Strauss]

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[Hanspree]

Im having a go with bio ag Digest it apparantly Ad plants use it and a farming freind swears by it says he hasn't mixed his tower for 4 years and forgot to add any more one year and the tank still bubbled away also his he claimes he used less fert pricey tho £160 per 100,000 gal noticed ot was one of the best ones in that study above. i have mixed 20ltr in a 1000ltr ibc with water left all day infront of parlour compressors warm them up then drove round slatted shed mix smells like its full of mollases will post results also have some pics he sent me of his

I'm giving this ago as well, like you say smells like molasses. Have used other bugs before with little success so I'm hoping this works.

 

[farmer1989]

So after pumping out half the tank about a month ago im seeing alot of eruptions and gas blow off in this thick cubicle cow slurry when pumping using digest it i have video but wont allow me to upload