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To: Mr Rogers

that’s 250 gals per cow per day.

Highly sceptical of those numbers


47 posted on 01/17/2015 5:17:35 PM PST by digger48
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To: digger48

I get 25 gallon/cow/day. That is liquified manure. I don’t know what the ratio would be...it would take a lot of added water to make the manure from my 3 horses liquid.

” A mature dairy cow weighing 1,400 pounds can generate around 14 gallons (about 120 pounds or 1.9 cubic feet) of feces and urine each day with an average as-excreted solids content of around 12 percent.”

http://www.extension.org/pages/15476/liquid-manure-storage-ponds-pits-and-tanks#.VLsKtB1ozgE

So less than a 50:50 water addition would get you to the figure cited.


49 posted on 01/17/2015 5:26:20 PM PST by Mr Rogers (Can you remember what America was like in 2004?)
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To: digger48

The actual waste from one cow is more like a large scoop shovel of semi-solid and several gallons of urine per day. Much water is added for handling via pumps.


50 posted on 01/17/2015 5:29:47 PM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: digger48

That would be 25 gallons a day per cow.

25 X 11,000 X 365 days==100,375,000 gallons


72 posted on 01/17/2015 6:38:51 PM PST by eastforker (Cruz for steam in 2016)
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To: digger48

100,000,000 gallons manure per year / 11,000 cows = 9,090.91 gallons of manure per cow per year ...

9,090.91 gallons manure per cow per year / 365 days per year = 24.91 gallons per cow per day ...

Not 250 gallons

Survey says ... Believable


81 posted on 01/17/2015 7:54:59 PM PST by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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