indican that is indoxyl sulphate one of the important products of catabolism of aminoacid tryptophan is an important component of cow's urine
mainly uric acid.Cow urine is good solvent for all salts.That's how it can manage the clogging.But it not a right solution for the problem.
In General cow's urine have Water - 95% : Urea - 2.5% : Minerals, Hormones, Salts & Enzymes - 2.5%.
The clogging is due to deposition of minerals in the pipes?
Due to its acidity can be used to remove these encrustations.
Hi Veeramani Perumal ji, In general pH of Cow's urine ranges between 5.8 to 6.0. Which is slightly acidic. Of course clogging in emitters in drip irrigation's due to presence of calcium carbonate and calcium silicate in irrigation water which can be make easily soluble by using Cow's urine flushing after irrigation. Few links are also here to help you.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00288233.1982.10423373#.VFMmjWeSxWI
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00288233.1982.10423373
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pH of the cow urine also depends on the freshness. Means, more fresh cow urine is having pH ranging from 5.8 to 6 but as it is getting older w.r.t. time, the pH may get changed to more then 6.
Whether you had done any further studies on cow urine as a clogging removing agent in drip systems? May be, experimenting at different concentrations is required to establish its efficacy.
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