Dairy IntelligenceMilk Water Slurry
Look closely at
what your herd
is drinking.
Water quality, hygiene and the farm environment, connected with the wider performance picture rather than treated on their own.
The forgotten
feed ingredient.
Around 72% of a cow is water, and milk is mostly water. Yet water is often the least examined input on a dairy farm.
Water quality affects intakes, health and fertility. When it is poor, it quietly holds back every other change you make: a better ration, a cleaner clamp, a new protocol. Looking at it first is usually cheaper than treating what it causes.
Same question,
two troughs.
These are two different farms, not a before and after. They are here to show the range of what a drinking point can look like on any given day, and why it is worth looking at yours.
From the source
to the muzzle.
- 01
The source
Where the water comes from, and what that means for what is in it.
- 02
Storage
Tanks and reservoirs, how clean they are, and how long water sits before it is drunk.
- 03
The drinking points
Number, placement, flow and condition. What the herd can actually reach when it wants to drink.
- 04
Hygiene
Cleaning routines around water and the parts of the building that affect them.
- 05
Testing
Analysis of what is in the water, read alongside what you are seeing in the herd.
What we can confirm
we do today.
This page describes the water, hygiene and farm environment work we can confirm. Slurry and wider environmental services are being written up with the team, and will appear here once their scope is settled. If you want to discuss slurry now, call us and ask.
Water sits inside
the feeding picture.
What a cow drinks decides how much of the ration she uses. Clamp to Cow covers the feed side of the same farm.
Find out what is in your water.
Tell us what you are seeing in the herd and we will help you work out whether water is part of it.