how to clean green algae from cattle dugout?

rustred · Aug 12, 2020

ok you farmers, with all this hot weather the dugout has green floating all over it. if i throw a round bale of barley straw in it will that
clear it up?

tomNE · Aug 12, 2020

nope but tossing in some carp or bullheads might! I tried the barley treatment and the chemical treatment and they didn't work!

Billy Shafer · Aug 12, 2020

NAPALM works well. But is messy.

I believe you can buy some pool cleaner. That will kill it. We have some stuff at the feed store. For clearing ponds.

ADB-Ia · Aug 12, 2020

I agree with the fish. A friend always kept some gold fish in his tank. When they have that much room, they get big. They will keep it clean.

buickanddeere · Aug 12, 2020

Wind Mill and/or electrical powered air pump To bubble air from the bottom of the pond .

jal-SD · Aug 12, 2020

Careful, if its the blue/green variety, it will become poisoness later in summer to livestock and dogs. Nasty stuff, common here in the upper mid-west and other places on the great plains. An aeration system could help.

4520BW · Aug 12, 2020

Can you use copper sulfate? We treat our ponds with it but don't have livestock drinking from it anymore. I know copper is harmful to sheep. We just treat our pond in small sections every few days.

Jegs · Aug 12, 2020

X2, we use just a couple of drops in a medium sized water tank when we fill it in the summer. Works pretty good and doesn't seem to affect the goats at all.

MJMJ · Aug 12, 2020

Yep, go to the feed store. They have products specifically for keeping livestock tanks clean. Fish only clean some types of algae, not all, and certainly not the potentially dangerous blue-green type.

GordoSD · Aug 12, 2020

My Grandpa always had some yellow bullheads that we caught and dumped in there. Circular tank by the windmill, 10 feet diameter?

rustred · Aug 12, 2020

guess i should add, the dugout is about 100'x200' and is 22 ft deep. and the cows drink from it. i was going to pump the water into a stock tank sucking it from the bottom. and let them drink from that.

caterpillar guy · Aug 13, 2020

Raking it out with a hand leaf rake will get a lot from the top. If you start with some chlorine like clorox in the spring, and add some every couple of weeks to a month, it will keep the scours away from younger cattle, and probably would help with the algae. We used to put about a 1/4-1/2 cup in a 2x2x6 water tank if you can put it in before they drink and fill the tank it is fine when the tank is full. If during drinking don't add it. IF they got a gulp of just the chlorine it would not be a good thing.

sotxbill · Aug 13, 2020

(quoted from post at 16:22:38 08/12/20) guess i should add, the dugout is about 100'x200' and is 22 ft deep. and the cows drink from it. i was going to pump the water into a stock tank sucking it from the bottom. and let them drink from that.

Down here that would be a "tank" is the local term for a larger than a pond.

Ellis Kinney · Aug 13, 2020

Late 50's or early 60's. Dad always had us boys put copper sulfate (bluerock) in a burlap bag and row around the lake. Ellis

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