Thursday, May 30, 2013

Toxins In Manure & How To Eliminate These

By Lianne Derocco


Swine feeds usually have lots of ingredients in their feeds, and this includes not only the organic ingredients like corn, soya meal, fish meal, and others but also chemicals and antibiotics incorporated in the feeds. The feeds are not digested a hundred percent and the hog waste excreted contains this undigested food and also some of the chemicals mixed. Bacteria and toxins coming from the waste will come in contact with the soil. Phosphorous coming from the swine excrete will also pose risks to people when the manure is used as fertilizer by people and this is mixed in the soil.

Hog waste contains potential harmful substances that can expose people to risks and this includes bacteria and other pathogens. Ammonia and hydrogen sulfides are in the animal waste, and these are already the harmful gases if inhaled. Chemicals, antibiotics, and other growth promoting materials are incorporated in high volumes in the feeds and which ultimately are excreted in the hog waste. There can already be antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria from these wastes and will not fit well with people. Toxic substances, and a lot of them, can already be in the hog waste, and of which people also use to fertilize their farms.

Ammonia, sulfides, carbon monoxide and dioxide, and also methane and other gases harmful to people can already be in the hog wastes, and when in very large doses, can be very harmful. These gases can be very toxic to humans and even small doses can cause nausea, headaches, respiratory problems, and also a source of discomfort to people as well as the hogs themselves. For this reason, hog farmers are properly disposing the animal wastes due to the high danger these wastes give to people and also the animals. For this reason, lagoons are made, for the holding of these wastes.

Water is used in cleaning and bombarding the hog wastes so that these will flow and go to the lagoons and waste pits. There is the danger however, that some of the waste and water will seep into the ground, and this happens in the canals and even the pits. There are bacteria, toxins, and other harmful substances in the wastes, and the danger of these getting into the groundwater is a possibility that cannot be eliminated. Hog farmers are having their ways to prevent these things, and liners are placed in the pits to prevent seepage, and some put chemicals in the pits.

Foam build up on the surface of the lagoons will be seen, and this is especially when the volume of hog waste is big. Toxic gases can be trapped beneath the foam, and this is toxic and very dangerous to humans, especially trapped methane. Clean up and pumping out the hog wastes can also be very difficult when sludge and crusts are building up in the lagoons. These problems need solutions, and hog farmers have these.

They have the solution in Activator Plus and also AgraSphere, where their lagoon and pit concerns are already solved. Activator Plus is the chemical used that helps break down the animal waste by enhancing natural bacteria and enzymes in the waste. AgraSphere is their solution in the sludge and crust build up where it is just placed directly into the problem areas. The product is just tossed directly into these areas where sludge and crust are heavy and waste remedial solutions are then easy to implement.




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