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Disinfectant you use

  • 26-08-2014 10:37am
    #1
    Greengrass1
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    Looking for a good disinfectant for my calf pens. Can't really power wash them as the walls are made out if lime plaster.
    The individual pens worked well last autumn but as soon as spring came calves were in them for too long and I got a run if scours


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  • #2
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Looking for a good disinfectant for my calf pens. Can't really power wash them as the walls are made out if lime plaster.
    The individual pens worked well last autumn but as soon as spring came calves were in them for too long and I got a run if scours

    I just use normal dettol mixed with water


  • #3
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Reggie. wrote: »
    I just use normal dettol mixed with water

    In a hand sprayed?


  • #4
    Reggie.
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    In a hand sprayed?

    Watering can with the sprinkler top on it


  • #5
    Dawggone
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    Virkon. (Spelling?).


  • #6
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Dawggone wrote: »
    Virkon. (Spelling?).

    Will I get that in ireland?
    We were using lime but not good enough IMO
    Half thinking if not bothering with individual pens any more


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  • #7
    Dawggone
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Will I get that in ireland?
    We were using lime but not good enough IMO
    Half thinking if not bothering with individual pens any more

    Yes available in Ireland Greengrass.


  • #8
    C0N0R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,954 ✭✭✭C0N0R


    Dawggone wrote: »
    Virkon. (Spelling?).

    That's what we used to use, keep a nap sack full of it and use as required.


  • #9
    trixi2011
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    + 1 great stuff used to spray twice


  • #10
    blue5000
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Looking for a good disinfectant for my calf pens. Can't really power wash them as the walls are made out if lime plaster.
    The individual pens worked well last autumn but as soon as spring came calves were in them for too long and I got a run if scours

    Ask whelan2;)

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #11
    whelan2
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    Reggie. wrote: »
    I just use normal dettol mixed with water
    i nearly spat out my coffee:D


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  • #12
    whelan2
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    blue5000 wrote: »
    Ask whelan2;)
    interkokask , its the best, put on with knapsack get it off vet. Sheds have to be clean-powerwashed-. Doing my pens this evening. kills coccidiosis etc http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dugganvet.ie%2Fproductsvet%2F%3Ftcp_product%3Dinterkokask-1kg&ei=T5T8U7mmJuqO7QabzIHACA&usg=AFQjCNFejKTnal0XgUK2qPtOxr1OZAjH_Q&sig2=gVPOXMIZ_UmpJqnTB7fTWw&bvm=bv.73612305,d.ZGU&cad=rja


  • #13
    Greengrass1
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    interkokask , its the best, put on with knapsack get it off vet. Sheds have to be clean-powerwashed-. Doing my pens this evening. kills coccidiosis etc http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dugganvet.ie%2Fproductsvet%2F%3Ftcp_product%3Dinterkokask-1kg&ei=T5T8U7mmJuqO7QabzIHACA&usg=AFQjCNFejKTnal0XgUK2qPtOxr1OZAjH_Q&sig2=gVPOXMIZ_UmpJqnTB7fTWw&bvm=bv.73612305,d.ZGU&cad=rja
    That's why I'm thinking of not bothering with these pens. Can't power wash them


  • #14
    whelan2
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    That's why I'm thinking of not bothering with these pens. Can't power wash them
    i have the o donnovan pens that can be taken down, i put them somewhere new each year. i use this disenfectant in calving pens too


  • #15
    dar31
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    Kilcox K and soragene here
    Wash and disenfect twice and usually do calf house and calving boxes again just before puttin stock in


  • #16
    mickey1985
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    Is there any other good disinfectant for calve houses?


  • #17
    Mooooo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Cyclex.


  • #18
    Buford T. Justice XIX
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    What disinfectant would you use to disinfect stomach tubes and feeder bottles?

    I normally pour some iodine based disinfectant over and through them after use but is there something better out there for that job?


  • #19
    grassroot1
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    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    What disinfectant would you use to disinfect stomach tubes and feeder bottles?

    I normally pour some iodine based disinfectant over and through them after use but is there something better out there for that job?

    Milton as for baby's bottles


  • #20
    Base price
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    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    What disinfectant would you use to disinfect stomach tubes and feeder bottles?

    I normally pour some iodine based disinfectant over and through them after use but is there something better out there for that job?
    I use Steri 7 on teat feeders and the milk mixer, it's food safe and doesn't leave a smell.
    http://www.magentadirect.ie/STERI7-5LITRE


  • #21
    Base price
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    Has anyone come across a powder disinfectant. A couple of years ago I was in a yard and the guy bred dogs, he used a powder disinfectant in the kennels. He told me that piggeries use it but I cannot remember the name. From memory it was pink in colour.


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  • #22
    alps
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    Base price wrote: »
    Has anyone come across a powder disinfectant. A couple of years ago I was in a yard and the guy bred dogs, he used a powder disinfectant in the kennels. He told me that piggeries use it but I cannot remember the name. From memory it was pink in colour.

    Virkon S...use it here...came highly recommended from poultry grower..

    Ordered yesterday and cheapest I could find was actually from equine warehouse....

    Imagine the excitement from the "staff" in this house when they see the package, and the disappointment when they open it....


  • #23
    Reggie.
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    alps wrote: »
    Virkon S...use it here...came highly recommended from poultry grower..

    Ordered yesterday and cheapest I could find was actually from equine warehouse....

    Imagine the excitement from the "staff" in this house when they see the package, and the disappointment when they open it....

    That's just nasty


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