Soo-Soft® Treated Water for Cattle & Bison

Water treated by the Soo-Soft® System creates a form of calcium that is more dissolvable into water and more biologically available to animals. This can have profound effects on weight growth, general health, and bacterial resistance of the animal.

Nutrients

Water is the primary carrier for nutrients delivered to the cells. The ability of water to dissolve these nutrients and deliver them to the cells is influenced by the wetness and solubility of the water the animal drinks.

One of the most important nutrients is calcium. It is one of the primary constituents of the cell wall. It has been shown to tighten and strengthen cellular membranes. Low levels of calcium create weak cell walls and increase the ability of the cell wall to be easily penetrated. This increases the animal’s susceptibility to invasion by bacteria and toxic elements.

Solvency

Water is the universal solvent for all animals. It is the medium used for waste disposal. Water removes the toxic waste products produced by countless cellular functions. Water fills the capillaries, which act to remove impurities. It follows that the effectiveness of water as a solvent will directly influence the health of the animal by reducing naturally occurring toxic influences.

The Soo-Soft® system reduces the surface tension of the water. This is a natural result of reducing the minerals in water to a 2-4 micron size. Water becomes "wetter" and a better solvent for removal of toxins. Its ability to dissolve and carry away the waste products of living organisms is dramatically improved.

In addition the reduced surface tension of the water facilitates the cells take up of water. Water with a reduced surface tension can penetrate the cell wall easier, facilitating the growth and division of cells.

Bacterial Resistance

Outside of the body, bacteria in physically treated water starve. Algae and bacteria must obtain nourishment through their cell walls. Water can easily penetrate, but cells are prevented from absorbing mineral nourishment. The altered form of crystallized mineral shapes created by the Soo-Soft® system cannot easily penetrate cell walls.

Water Taste

Animals are like humans when it comes to the taste of hard water. Hard water is not palatable. This is especially true of water derived from wells. Water treated by the Soo-Soft® system has its mineral content reduced to the consistency of talcum powder. This greatly reduces the irritation factor in hard well water. Our customers have continually reported an increase in water consumption and a preference by animals for Soo-Soft® treated water. Animals are more likely to consume more water and have improved health from that fact alone.

System Maintenance

Calcium, in its natural carbonate (hard) form, is abrasive. It collects inside water pumps, causing premature failure. Electric heating elements collect hard calcium deposits, causing them to fail prematurely.

Calcium deposits are also a major factor in corrosion. The corrosive contaminates become trapped by calcium deposits, allowing them to corrode pipes, tanks, valves and water jackets. This corrosion reduces the life expectancy of all components using water.

Water filters of all types collect calcium deposits on their surfaces, clogging the filter before its time. This forces filter replacement long before the filter itself is fully utilized. The Soo-Soft® system creates 4 micron sized particles of calcium that  simply pass through. This greatly extends the life of filters.

Hard calcium deposits are the bane of any water feeding system. The Soo-Soft® system creates a more soluble water that dissolves existing calcium deposits on all components that use water. This occurs throughout the water system.

A Story of Bison

One of our customers has been breeding organically fed bison for many years. A small group of 50 head were selected for a test with the Soo-Soft® system. Shortly after installation it was noticed that the bison would only drink the water treated with the Soo-Soft® system. (They had a choice of two watering troughs one of which was fed untreated water.) Shortly after installation, it was noticed that the animals showed a greater amount of muscle mass and that their ribs were no longer visible. When the animals were slaughtered, they had an average increased weight of 100-150 pounds over the other animals. Studies have demonstrated that treated water reduces fat and helps to increase muscle mass. As muscle is heavier than fat, an increase in weight is typical.

History

Dr. Klaus Kronenberg of California Polytechnic University in Pomona, California and Dr. Israel Lin of Haifa university in Israel have reported increased weight gain in piglets increased milk production in dairy cows, an increase muscle to fat ratio, and a general increase in health in animals fed treated water.

Dr. Linus Pauling received the Nobel Prize for discovering the magnetic properties of blood. Blood contains iron that acts as a carrier of oxygen. (Ferrous hemoglobin) It has been reported that physically treated water acts as a better carrier for transportation of oxygen through the lungs and cells.

All of these studies point to a continuing positive relationship between animal health and magnetic effects on water and biological chemistry. A study of the effect of treated water on cattle is reproduced below.

A Note on the Effect of Magnetically Treated Drinking Water on the Performance of Fattening Cattle

D. Levy, Z. Holzer, A. Brosh and D. IIan

Agricultural Research Organization. Newe Ya’ar Experiment Station, Haifa Post 31-999. Israel

Contribution from the Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center.Bet Dagan. Israel No. 305 7-E, 1990 series

World Review of Animal Production Volume 27, Number 2, Apr.- Jun.1992

Introduction

In research carried out at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology concerning the influence of low power magnetic fields on the properties of water in a regime of laminar flow, upstream, it was found that these fields affect the functioning of inorganic membranes (Lin and Nadiv, 1987; Lin and Nadiv, 1988). As a general rule, in an electrically conducting fluid, such as tap water, flowing at a given velocity in the space of a magnetic field, electric currents and voltage are induced (capable of being both calculated and measured), if the basic conditions known from electromagnetic theory and principles (magneto-hydrodynamics) are fulfilled. The energy required for obtaining induction is derived from the kinetic energy of the fluid and not from the magnetic circuit. The effect of a brief exposure of water to magnetic treatment was preserved for some time Lin and Yotvat, 1989a). A series of field observations was carried out to study the effect of treated water when used for irrigation and as drinking water for animals. These included dairy cows and calves, geese, sheep and turkeys. The results, which were very promising in all cases, were summarized by Lin and Yotvat (1988a, 1989a)

Most impressive results were obtained by irrigation of cantaloupe and grape fruit, in which, both yield and quality were greatly improved Harari M.and Lin, I.J.1989; Lin and Yotvat, Y. 1989b. The authors, or inventors, (cit.) fail to give any scientific explanation for this phenomenon. The objective of the present study and observations was to assess the effect of magnetic treatment of drinking water on the performance of growing-fattening male cattle.

Experimental

The necessary installations for the treatment of water were carried out by Elir Advanced Technologies Ltd.

A digestibility and nitrogen balance trial, and three feeding trials, were conducted in which one treatment group received magnetically treated water while other received untreated water.

A circulated drinking water system was installed by Elir Ltd. (water conditioning for livestock and crop farming) in the stalls and pens of the animals which were allotted for treatment. The digestibility trial and one feeding trial using both Israeli Friesian and beef breed animals were carried out at the Newe Ya’ar Experiment Station of the Agricultural Research Organization (A.R.O.), Ministry of Agriculture.

One feeding trial was carried out at En Hashofet (EH) collective settlement using beef breed animals, and one at Kefar Yehoshua (KY) cooperative settlement using Friesian cattle. The trials at both settlements were supervised by the personnel of the Extension Service of the Ministry of Agriculture and A. R.O.

A. At Newe Ya’ar Experiment Station

1. Digestibility Trial

Dry matter (DM) intake, apparent digestibility of the DM of the diet offered and of its components, and nitrogen balance were determined in several replications of male calves of Charollais and Simmental ♂ and Hereford ♀ calves. The animals were approximately 170 days old and weighed 210 kg at the start of the experiment. They were fed a commercial pelleted concentrate and vetch hay (80:20), ad libitum. The proximate analysis of the dry matter of the entire diet (g/kg DM) was: crude protein-136, ether extract-45, crude fibre-87, N-free extract-636 and ash-95.

Proximate analysis of feeds and faeces was carried out according to the Official Methods of Analysis (AOAC, 1980).

Feed was offered once daily, in the morning, after removal of the food re- fused from the previous clay. Faecal output was measured by total collection and urine was collected into concentrated hydrochloric acid. A collection period of 8 days followed a preliminary period of 14 days.

The animals on the treated water treatment were allowed an adaptation period of 30 days before being put in the digestion stalls.

The results of the digestibility trial are presented in Table 1.

2. Feeding trial

A total of fourteen beef-breed animals (the same ones used in the digestibility trial) and 14 Friesian 9-month-old male calves were put in pens of seven in an open shed on concrete slatted floors, allowing 2.5m2 per animal. One pen of seven of each breed received magnetically treated drinking water, while the other received untreated water.

The beef-breed animals were sired by grade Siminental and Charollais bulls on the experiment farm in the autumn, weaned in May, and adapted to a diet similar to that given during the experiment. They were approximately 8 months old at the start of the feeding trial. Until the start of that trial each animal continued to drink the same water which had drunk during the digestion trial.

The Friesian calves were purchased at 7-10 days of age and reared on 20 kg per head of milk replacer, a commercial starter and vetch hay offered ad libitum for 5 days. From then until the age of 5 months the animals were offered the same starter and vetch hay ad libitum. From the age of 5 months until the start of the experiment, when they were 9 months old, they were fed a diet similar to that of the experiment. They were divided into groups of similar average age and weight and allowed an adaptation period of 30 days, after which one of the groups started to receive magnetically treated water.

Diet

The diet was similar to that used in the digestibility trial at first, but after 46 days the hay was replaced by wheat straw. The animals were fed ad libitum with 850g/kg concentrate, 150g/kg roughage.

Slaughter technique

The animals were slaughtered upon reaching slaughter condition. The hot carcass was weighed after removal of kidney, pelvic and cod fat, which were weighed separately. Dressing percentage was calculated from the final live weight less 5%. The results are presented in Table 2.

Analysis of data

Table 1 – Feed intake, digestibility of DM and its components and nitrogen balance of diets fed to beef-bred calves receiving magnetically treated or untreated drinking water

Carcass weight gain was calculated for individual calves as the difference between carcass weight and the initial shrunken body weight multiplied by a mean dressing percentage which has been derived by extrapolation in a previous experiment on similar calves.

The results were compared using Student’s t-test.

The results of the feeding trial are presented in Table 2.

Table 2 – Performance of beef breed and Friesian animals receiving magnetically treated or untreated drinking water (seven animals per sub-treatment)

Breed of Animals Beef Breed Friesian

Table 3 – Performance of the Animals in the EH and KY Feeding Field Observations

The difference in performance between treatment groups in the Friesian breed animals was smaller than in the beef breed animals. As opposed to the untreated water group, the treated water group gained 3% more rapidly and was 3% and 5% more efficient in the conversion of energy into live and carcass weight, respectively. As with the beef breed animals, the control group was fatter (by 17%) than the treated water group, as indicated by the weight of fat in the large depots. These differences were not significant.

The results of the EH observations indicate an advantage of 74 g/day in rate of gain of the group receiving magnetically treated water; this was on the border of statistical significance. (The t-value was 1 .988; while in order to have P<0.05, it should he between 2.021 and 2.000). The combined effect of lower DM intake (0.65 kg DM/day) and the higher daily gain produced a large advantage of 14% of the treated water group in the efficiency of conversion of ME into live weight.

The differences in dressing percentage and daily carcass gain (initial carcass weight calculated by locally developed prediction equations) were small and insignificant.

The kidney, pelvic and cod fat of six animals of each treatment group, chosen at random, was weighed. It was 5.47 kg and 8.03 kg (or, when expressed as percent of carcass weight, 1.95% and 2.93%) for the treated and untreated water groups, respectively.

There were no differences owing to treatment of water in the performance of the animals in the KY observation.

It appears that the consumption of magnetically treated wafer led to a much smaller deposition of depot fats, especially in the calves of the beef breed, where the differences between the treated and control animals were highly significant.

Similar results were obtained by Lipstein and Wacks (1989) with broilers.

We feel that a feeding trial using Friesian animals should be repeated under the conditions of a research institute.

Acknowledgement

We express our gratitude to Elir Advanced Technologies Ltd. (P.O.B. .480 K. Motzkin 26116, Israel) for the construction and maintenance of the water equipment.

References

AOAC

1980. Association of Official Anal- ytical Chemists. 13th ed. Washington D.C.

Harrari, M. and Lin, I.J.

1989. Growing muskmelons with magnetically treated water. Water Irrigation Review 9: 4-8.

LIN, I.J. AND NADIV, S. 1987. (The influence of low Power Magnetic Fields on the Properties of Aqueous Solutions in a Laminar Flow Regime).

Report no. 016-217, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. 57pp. (in Hebrew).

LIN, I.J. AND NADIV, S.

1988. Membrane performance under the influence of magnetic pretreatment. Magnetic Separation News 2: 137-143.

LIN, I.J. AND YOTVAT, Y. 1988a. Treatment with an electromagnetic technology of drinking and irrigation water for livestock and plants. Hassadeh 68: 2209-2213 (in Hebrew).

LIN, I.J. AND YOTVAT, Y. 1988b. (Magnetic treatment of meat and milk ruminants’ drinking water). Beef and Milk Farming 216: 45-60

(in Hebrew)

LIN, I.J. AND YOTVAT, Y. 1989a. Treatment of drinking and irrigation water in animal and plant husbandry by electromagnetic technology. Magnetic separation News 2: 179—187.

LIN, I.J. AND YOTVAT, Y. 1989b. Exposure of irrigation water to a magnetic field with controlled power and direction: Effects on grapefruit. Alon HaNotea 6:669-

A/air ilaNotea 6: 669-74 (in Hebrew).

LIPSTEIN, B. AND WACKS, E. 1989. The effect of drinking water exposed to a magnetic field on the performance of broilers. Meshek HaOfot 35:661-663 (in Hebrew)

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