Heavy mortality due to bio-film and scaling conditions of the water which caused the waterers to plug, resulting in dehydration and death. A means of treatment without the use of chemicals or high maintenance equipment to clean the plumbing schematic and manage the bio-film.
Scale is present in and on the nipple water feeders.
A scum like film is obvious in the water lines. The grower wanted to eliminate the high cost and maintenance of a water softener system. He also was very leary of any equipment which would revert his water system problems to its prior history of very high mortality causing total plumbing replacement. After one month the entire system was totally conditioned by the 5C8-202 descaler only. The manpower necessary to walk the lanes replacing slow or stopped waterers was eliminated.