Livestock: problems we treat | Alchemal

What are you seeing?

Lagoon surface crust and lost freeboard: the anaerobic column beneath
A hardening surface crust that traps gas, fouls pumping, and eats into freeboard sits over an anaerobic column. See how oxygen addresses the biology beneath the mat.
Algae on a lagoon surface: the conditions behind it
A lagoon surface that greens up in the heat is warm, still, and fed by an oxygen-poor bottom. See how restoring oxygen through the column shifts the balance back.

What are you smelling?

Lagoon odor and sludge: keep the column aerobic
Odor complaints, crusting, and sludge that makes pumping harder. One anaerobic cause sits behind all three.
Why a lagoon sours: the anaerobic turn and hydrogen sulfide
A sour, rotten-egg smell off the lagoon means the water has gone anaerobic and is making hydrogen sulfide. See how keeping the upper column aerobic shifts the breakdown back.

What are you losing?

Tired of treating it?

The lagoon treadmill: agitate, haul, mask, repeat
Agitating, hauling, and masking come back every season because they treat symptoms of one anaerobic cause. See how an aerobic column slows the work coming back.

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