Livestock Solutions

Effectively Controlling Layer Ammonia with EM Technology®

Introduced in 1982, EM Technology® is widely used in over 120 countries in all forms of agriculture and livestock management to clean water, control odor, manage wastes, and promote healthier animals. One of the most common animals it has been used with is chickens.

• Reduce levels of harmful pathogens 
• Reduce ammonia levels 
• Prevent corrosion  
  

• Use APC500™ to clean poultry housing and cages.
• Spray & wash all surfaces of poultry housing with a diluted solution ofAPC500™ in water at a 1:500 ratio. 
• Allow to air dry. 
• Total APC500™ per house will vary by size of the house and the age of the litter. 

Manure Pits
Some laying operations have manure pits where the droppings are scraped and and dumped into a pit.

• Calculate the size of the pit in either tons or volume of liquid.
• Divide that number by 2 if by tons or by 1000 if by liquid. 
• Apply that number of gallons of Wt1000™ per month directly into pit to control odors and digest wastes. 

Lagoons
Some laying operations also have lagoons. Lagoons are inoculated at a rate of 1 part Wt1000™ to 10,000 parts waste water on a monthly basis (100 gallons per million gallons).

Wt1000™ can be applied simply by pouring into the lagoon once per month. Some operations choose to set up dosing pumps and run in the effluent from the facility. Either way works.

There is no need to agitate the lagoon, unless it is pretty full of solids. If this is the case, increase dosage to three or four times per month to digest solids.

Horses are very inefficient eaters. As such, they produce lots of manure and very strong urine. EM•1® Waste Treatment provides a simple and affordable solution to controlling the odors. You can apply it on floors, walls, ceilings, and even wash the animals with it. Manure can be composted quickly as well and put back into the fields where the horses are grazed. Here are some of the basic applications:

 

Clean the Barn and Stalls:
Spray & wash all surfaces of the barn with a diluted solution of Eq300™ and water at 1:50, every 7 to 10 days

Add Bedding:
Spray or top-dress Eq300™ onto bedding. The minimum amount of Eq300™ to be used should be at 0.001 gallon per square foot (1 gallon per 1,000 square feet) of barn. This calculated amount should be diluted in just enough water to cover floors adequately.

Total Eq300™ per barn will vary on the size of the barn and the age of the bedding and manure.

Additional Options:
To increase the benefits of the odor control, it would be advisable to ferment the bedding at least two weeks prior to use, essentially making it into Bokashi.

Alternatively, you can add bokashi to the bedding as a top dressing.

Composting Manure:
Add 1.5 gallons Eq300™ per ton of fresh manure and compost as normal, following normal moisture and turning instructions.

Water Troughs:
Clean the trough thoroughly and fill with fresh water. Add an EM Beverage Stone® and let the water begin to structure. The water will stay cleaner longer and quench the animals' thirst much better. Add 1 part Eq300™ for every 2,000 parts water. This can be injected through a float valve.

Add to Feed:
Add 1 gallon of Eq300™ per 1,000lbs feed to help with digestion.

For further reading, we also suggest a book written by Ernst Hammes: Healthy Horses: Horse Care with Effective Micro-organisms. It is finally available through Amazon.com. This book has quite a bit of practical information for the horse owner. 

Spraying of Ca300™ will eliminate odor almost instantly. The rates at which Ca300™ is applied will determine how long the effects will last. If odors haven't been eliminated at first, reapply at a greater rate and/or more often to establish beneficial microbial populations.

Dairy Cattle Foot Baths:
Apply 1 ounce Fb300™ per gallon of water in foot bath. Do not use copper sulfate as this will kill the beneficial microbes in Fb300™.

Methods for Barns, Sheds, Loafing Area Odor Control:

• Spray Ca300™ on all surfaces (floors, walls, and ceiling). The bedding area and all manure should be sprayed. 
• Applications should be done at least 2 times per week. For a guideline, apply about 1 quart of Ca300™ diluted with 50 parts water per square yard of the barn. 
• If misting/fogging systems are in place, inject Ca300™ at a rate of 1:1,000 on a continuous basis. 

Feed:
Add 1 gallon of Ca300™ per 1,000lbs of feed and mix in tub grinder. For better effects, use same amount when mixing silage. This will improve feed conversions and milk production.

Methods for Milking Parlor:

• Clean the parlor floors and equipment with APC500™, our organic cleaning product.
• The effluent will be pre-treated with microbes in APC500™, preventing odor production and assist in waste treatment and manure odor control.

Composting Manure:

• Inoculate fresh manure with 2 gallons Ag1000® Organic per ton of manure.
• Follow standard composting methods of turning and heat, turning roughly 18-20 times with a turner (not a bucket loader) over the course of 40-45 days.
• Compost will be biologically mature and stable, ready for planting at 45 days, no curing is needed.
• Spread compost on fields at rate of 5 tons per acre yearly to replace most, or all, of fertilizer needs. You may also sell as compost.

Methods for Applications on Pasture:

• Apply Ag1000® by spraying at a rate of 5 gallons per acre per application 4 to 5 times a year. Or run through an irrigation system on a weekly basis.
  
• Areas that have high humidity only need to apply 4 times per year as the microbes tend to do well in that type of environment. Areas of low humidity should apply at 5 times per year.

Cleaning Animals:
Periodically wash the animals with a solution of APC500™ at one ounce per gallon of water (1:128). This is good for the animals' hides and skin. This will also help loosen any dirt that is stuck to their fur.

Effectively Controlling Hog Odors with EM Technology®

Hogs/Swine
Introduced in 1982, EM Technology® is widely used in over 120 countries in all forms of agriculture and livestock management to clean water, control odor, manage wastes, and promote healthier animals.

• Reduce levels of harmful pathogens
• Reduce hydrogen sulfide levels
• Prevent corrosion

EM Technology® is offered as a liquid microbial product including several strains of naturally-occurring microbes from three groups: Yeast, Photosynthetic Bacteria, and Lactic Acid Bacteria. EM Technology® contains dozens of enzymes (including lipase, protease, and cellulase), trace minerals, amino acids, and vitamins (including B1, B2, B6, B9, and B12) that help it establish a pleasant environment with safer levels of hydrogen sulfide.
Optimal health of the swine operation is achieved when EM Technology® is applied from the time young piglets arrive, until the day they leave.


Sw300™
Users of Sw300™ can achieve hydrogen sulfide levels as low as 0ppm (average 5-6ppm) in and around the barn. Hydrogen sulfide mainly comes from the manure pits below the animals. It is also in the gas animals pass. Sw300™ has active biology that resists putrefaction, prevents noxious odors, and controls pathogen growth. 
The method below is for all ages of swine. Sw300™ can be applied through a misting or fogging system to control the odors in the swine barns.
 

Applications for best results:

• Use APC500™ to clean the barns: floors, walls & ceilings.
• Pour Wt1000™ into manure pits at a 1:5000 ratio each time the pits are flushed.
• Add Sw300™ into drinking water at a rate of 1:2,000.
• Lagoons may be treated one time per month with a 100 gallons per million gallons of capacity to digest solids and control odors.
• Setting up a fogger would be ideal to run constantly to suppress hydrogen sulfide. This could be done at a 1:100 solution. Set on a timer to alternate sprays at 3-5 minute intervals and run for 30 seconds to 1 minute. The fogger would cycle longer in the winter when there is less ventilating and less in the summer when there is more ventilating.

Please call us for pricing and availability.

For poultry farms, we recommend purchasing Lt1000™ and Ps300™. These are special brews for poultry available only through TeraGanix and its Licensed Manufacturers. It is available in quantities starting in 5-gallons sizes. (Please call for pricing and shipping costs as freight is quoted based on weight and the delivery location).

• Spray Lt1000™ on all surfaces (floors, walls, and ceiling). The bedding area and all manure should be sprayed.
• Spray Lt1000™ on all surfaces (floors, walls, and ceiling). The bedding area and all manure should be sprayed.
• Applications should be done at least 3 times per week. For a guideline, apply about 1 quart of Lt1000™ diluted with 50 parts water per square yard of the barn.
• If misting/fogging systems are in place, inject Lt1000™ at a rate of 1:1000 on a continuous basis.

Misting/Fogging:

• If your facility has a misting/fogging system in place for cooling, Lt1000™ can be added into the water at a ratio of 1 part Lt1000™ per 1,000 gallons of water. For best results, run the solution on a timer that cycles for 10 seconds every hour when the building is open (summer) and 10 seconds every 30 minutes when the building is closed (winter).
• Prior to running the AEM-1®, flush the lines to clean out any gunk as nozzles may plug.