SlurryKat has been appointed to market the US-built Doda green bedding system, designed for use in the dairy, beef and anaerobic digestion sectors, in the UK and Ireland.
Green bedding systems have been on the market for a number of years, however some of them have demonstrated poor performance and dry matter that was not high enough to replace traditional bedding methods such as chopped straw or wood shavings. Green bedding is becoming increasingly popular Ireland and the UK after fuelled by its successful use in the USA and Europe. In Holland, for example, green bedding has been used for several years and more than 5,000 farms have converted to the system.
The new Doda Green bedding system offers many environmental and economic benefits, as well as increasing the health and well-being of the livestock, meaning they perform much better with proven increased production of milk and daily liveweight gains. With the new Doda system it is now easily possible to achieve separated dry matter fibre of approximately 50 per cent.
The benefits associated with the Doda green bedding system include:
- no requirement to buy straw or sawdust for bedding;
- mastitis is reduced with increased milk production;
- increased cow comfort and cleanliness;
- 30 per cent increase in slurry storage capacity;
- reduced need for mixing of slurry after storage;
- phosphorous reduction on the farm;
- reduction of farms carbon footprint; and
- short fibres produced have a greater absorption than straw or sawdust, allowing for cleaner animals, less smell and better general conditions.
What makes the Doda system different from all the other systems on the market is that it has a unique blower system on the discharge of the screw press that lifts the dry matter of the material by approximately 10 per cent and produces an attractive fluffy bedding material that is super absorbent.
The entire Doda system extremely compact and can be easily installed on any farm. Additionally an automated pre mixing system can be added if required for the raw slurry, while the whole system is independently controlled by an automated control panel which can be set to the farms individual needs.
Another unique feature that no other manufacturer can offer is that all the main components of the system are manufactured in 100 per cent stainless steel for long service life in aggressive corrosive material.
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