3 Products to Consider for Your Herd’s Udder Health
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Oxyblend 3:
A Concentrate Pre-Dip With Three Germicides To Raise your pre-dip power to the 3rd power while still providing excellent teat conditioning. BouMatic OxyBlend3 a new pre-milking teat dip provides a new solution for teat dip needs.
The product uses hydrogen peroxide, lactic acid and DDBSA and combines them with additives that work together to boost bactericidal efficacy. Thorough testing demonstrated the product’s killing power with a 6 log kill rate on there of the leading mastitis-causing pathogens – E. coli, S. aureus and S. agalactiae.
Its ingredient package also contains glycerin along with products commonly used in the industry to promote optimal skin conditions. The light orange color of the teat dip is visible on the teats to ensure that good coverage was achieved. The pre-dip can be dipped, sprayed, or foamed depending on individual farm preference. Being a concentrate provides significant cost savings versus traditional ready-to-use dips. And the formulation is NPE-Free to meet all environmental obligations. Herds will benefit from superior protection and will see healthier, softer, smoother teat ends after the first weeks of use.
Atlas:
A Concentrate Pre-And Post-Dip Provides Great Skin Conditioning for your herd. Udder quality is animportant factor considered on dairy farms today and this will help you take the lead and improve your teat end scores. The skin-conditioning system of Atlas accounts for 6.5% of the package utilizing both glycerin and lanolin.
The product is a Chlorine Dioxide that is provided as a base and activator. It is mixed at 1 part base to 54 parts activator, dip remains virtually full strength (1500PPM ClO2) for 24 hours and germicidally active for up to 7 days. Atlas is powerful and has excellent 7-log kill across all major organisms (Staph A., E. Coli, Strep A) and a rapid kill time of 15 seconds. It can be used as a spray or as a dip.
With a dark forest green color, you will know the teat dip is applied completely.
Atlas Barrier:
When A Barrier Is Needed turn again to BouMatic. Much like our Atlas Pre/Post formula, the Atlas Barrier has an excellent 7-log kill across all major organisms (Staph A., E. Coli, Strep A) and a rapid kill time of 15 seconds.
Mixed at one part base to one part activator, dip remains virtually full strength (3000ppm) for 24 hours and germicidally active for up to 7 days. It has the same dark forest green coloring so you will know that coverage is complete and it can be applied by either spray or dip methods.
The skin-conditioning package accounts for 10% of the formula and uses both glycerin and lanolin. Protect her udder and improve her teat end scores today.