Slurry safety

tellmeabit

hi all,
agitated a 2 bay unit 15 days ago, took cattle out for the day. spread 3 tanks to bring down level of tank.
so hope to get more contractor to put out more this week, question I have is, will I need to take the animals out this week while agitating? same dangers with gases?

thanks,

keep going

tellmeabit wrote: »

hi all,
agitated a 2 bay unit 15 days ago, took cattle out for the day. spread 3 tanks to bring down level of tank.
so hope to get more contractor to put out more this week, question I have is, will I need to take the animals out this week while agitating? same dangers with gases?

thanks,

Two questions how much work is your life worth and how much are you cattle worth, you wouldnt being long losing alot more sweat once they start keeling over

Parishlad

tellmeabit wrote: »

hi all,
agitated a 2 bay unit 15 days ago, took cattle out for the day. spread 3 tanks to bring down level of tank.
so hope to get more contractor to put out more this week, question I have is, will I need to take the animals out this week while agitating? same dangers with gases?

thanks,

If you have to agitate again then yes you'll need to take the same precautions as you did when doing it first time round!

blue5000

It's your call OP. If we come on here and say 'work away, you'll be grand' and something happens, well it's your problem not ours, on an anonymous forum.

Having said that, you broke the crust 3 weeks ago, any gas there was released then. Silage effluent increases the risk, some people use gypsum to bed cubicles, there is sulphur in gypsum which converts to hydrogen sulphide in slurry. Sulphuric acid is not used as a silage additive so the risks are lower than they used to be.

It's your slurry, your cattle, your shed and your decision.

ganmo

blue5000 wrote: »

It's your slurry, your cattle, your shed and your decision.

and your life

tellmeabit

cheers, no fancy stuff employed here, {even though I going to look into an additive that you add to the empy/watery tank before housing that is supposed to break down the slurry better.}

I was hoping to avoid taking a day off work midweek, but probably safety first is best approach.
cheers.

IH784man

It will only take an hour or two out of your day to get the cattle out anyway so it's not worth the risk,better safe than sorry

tellmeabit

bit of a treck back to the ranch, 4 hour round trip, to let them out of the shed for couple hours. with this rain coming doesn't look like im gonna get it out this week, gonna have to invest in one of these weather remote controls you read about on the interweb...

IH784man

Tell the contractor to let them out so,how do you feed everyday if it's s 4 hour round trip

tellmeabit

bales lined up infornt of them before I head off, enough to keep them going for 5-6 days normally.