Getting rid of ammonia smell in the cooler

[showman4]

Our cooler has a strong ammonia smell even though we drain and clean it properly. We have heard that baking soda and vinegar help the scent.

Any ideas?!

 

[farmin female]

Our cooler has a strong ammonia smell even though we drain and clean it properly. We have heard that baking soda and vinegar help the scent.

Any ideas?!

We buy a product called PDZ (or something like that) that horse people use in stalls.  Check your local farm and ranch stores or feed stores and they probably carry something.  They are not expensive products either- which helps.

 

[Redfern]

We use some cedar fiber mixed in our regular bedding.  It doesn't completely hide the odor but sure does help.

 

[Freddy]

GOOD CEDAR FIBER BEDDING ...

 

[Redfern]

GOOD CEDAR FIBER BEDDING ...

Freddy, good to talk to you this afternoon on the phone.  Also, thanks for supplying us with the great cedar fiber.  Its working perfect.

 

[showman4]

We will try both the cedar fiber and the PDZ.

thanks.

 

[beefmasterboy24]

About 10 rocks of charcoal in one corner, a skunk sprayed next to our house and it had the smell almost completely out in 3 days (thumbsup). and it stunk really bad!

 

[drl]

We built a new cooler room last summer and added a couple things over our past cooler to help. We have a concrete floor that all slopes to a drain. We added a 1 inch layer of pea gravel/small rock on the bottom under neath about 3-4 inches of cedar fiber. When we rinse the heifers in the stall the water drains faster to the drain in the floor with no puddling like we had last year without the rock. We also have an exhaust fan on a timer that runs 10 minutes every three hours so it brings in enough fresh air to change out the entire room. We have a simple vent on the other side of the room so when the exhaust blows out the air can get sucked in on the far side of the room. Also running a pitch fork every time you can will help alot as well. I would recommend setting something else up that gets rid of the ammonia source such as a good drain and air ventilation set up because using products to just neutralize the smell will run out and i doubt that a dusting of this or that will neutralize all that urine that they do in a day. 

 

[PSC]

we use kittey liter and ceder mulch     

 

[OH Breeder]

Using Stall Dry and or Lime will help nuetralize the smell. But you may have to decrease the time you clean them out or clean more frequently.

 

[red roan]

We actually go to the barn ever 3 hours and get the cattle up and and catch the urine in small buckets it makes a big deference .that stall freshner that Sullivan's sale is amazing to don't take much