Mixture of chicken's excretions, feed, feathers and bedding
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In agriculture, poultry litter or broiler litter is a mixture of poultry excreta, spilled feed, feathers, and material used as bedding in poultry operations. This term is also used to refer to unused bedding materials. Poultry litter is used in confinement buildings used for raising broilers, turkeys and other birds. Common bedding materials include wood shavings, sawdust, peanut hulls, shredded sugar cane, straw, and other dry, absorbent, low-cost organic materials. Sand is also occasionally used as bedding. The bedding materials help absorb moisture, limiting the production of ammonia and harmful pathogens. The materials used for bedding can also have a significant impact on carcass quality and bird performance.[1]
There are specific practices that must be followed to properly maintain the litter and maximize the health and productivity of the flocks raised on it. Many factors must be considered in successful litter management including time of the year, depth of the litter, floor space per bird, feeding practices, disease, the kind of floor, ventilation, watering devices, litter amendments, and even the potential fertilizer value of the litter after it is removed from the house. Most poultry are grown on dirt floors with some type of bedding material. Concrete floors and some specialized raised flooring are used at some facilities. In many areas of the United States, shavings from pine or other soft woods have historically been the bedding of choice for poultry production. Regionally, other materials have been the bedding material of choice due to regional cost and availability, such as rice hulls in the lower Mississippi River poultry production areas of Arkansas and Mississippi.[1]
^ ab"Alternative Litter Materials for Growing Poultry Industry" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 30, 2010. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
agriculture, poultrylitter or broiler litter is a mixture of poultry excreta, spilled feed, feathers, and material used as bedding in poultry operations...
Poultry farming is the form of animal husbandry which raises domesticated birds such as chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese to produce meat or eggs for...
processing method for poultry Manure." The deep litter method was first used in 1946 by the Ohio Station Brooder House. Before the deep litter method, shavings...
in some cases, in poultry colonies, such as Judge Emery's Poultry Colony until about 1960. Originally, the primary value in poultry keeping was eggs,...
Minnesota, was the first power plant in the United States designed to burn poultrylitter as its main source of fuel. It produced 55 megawatts of electric power...
is most damaging to the poultry industry. This is the most common beetle found in poultrylitter. The larvae damage poultry housing structures when they...
ammonia in poultrylitter. Broilers are usually kept at high stocking densities. This can reduce feed intake and growth. Management conditions (litter quality...
Poultry (/ˈpoʊltri/) are domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of harvesting animal products such as meat, eggs or feathers. The practice...
Poultrylitter and animal carcasses are places in which C. botulinum spores are able to germinate so it is advised to avoid spreading poultrylitter or...
with poultrylitter. A company spokesperson said the litter belongs to independent contract farmers and not to Tyson. To address the problem of poultry litter...
Silva, Carlos; Melo, Leonidas (September 4, 2017). "Co-pyrolysis of poultrylitter and phosphate and magnesium generates alternative slow-release fertilizer...
patterns. Sodium bisulfate is the active ingredient in some granular poultrylitter treatments used to control ammonia. Sodium bisulfate has also been shown...
or poultry feed also provides an economical alternative to products marketed specifically as cat litter. Additionally, most of these forms of litter are...
guidelines for using poultrylitter on pastures". www.thepoultrysite.com. Retrieved 2021-04-09. "Researchers Study Value of Chicken Litter in Cotton Production"...
motile, rod-shaped bacterium that has been isolated from soil and poultrylitter. The species was first isolated and described by the scientist Den Dooren...
Beyer & R. L. Wershaw (2003). "Environmental Fate of Roxarsone in PoultryLitter. I. Degradation of Roxarsone during Composting". Environ. Sci. Technol...
irregular rods during the exponential phase. It was first isolated from poultry deep litter in 1966. The species was the first proposed for genus Brachybacterium...
house fly (Diptera: Muscidae), and other nuisance fly development in poultrylitter associated with horticultural crop production". Journal of Economic...
cotton trash, rice hulls, and orange peels. Animal waste including poultrylitter, dairy manure, and potentially other manures are also under evaluation...
Technoeconomic Analysis of Thermochemical Conversion Technologies Applied to PoultryLitter with Energy and Nutrient Recovery". ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering...
and Southeast Asia (rice husks). Animal husbandry residues, such as poultrylitter, are common in the UK. The biomass power generating industry in the...
field of renewable energies; and Perdue AgriRecycle, which converts poultrylitter into organic fertilizer products. In 2007, Perdue removed all human...
000 homes. It was designed to generate electricity by the burning of poultrylitter, and was only the second of this kind of power station in the world...
bacterium species from the genus Arthrobacter which has been isolated from poultrylitter in the Netherlands. Tvrzová, L. (1 March 2005). "Polyphasic taxonomic...
"Detection and quantification of ionophore antibiotics in runoff, soil and poultrylitter". Journal of Chromatography A. 1312: 10–17. doi:10.1016/j.chroma.2013...
rations richer in energy and protein, such as pelleted cereals. Pigs and poultry cannot digest the cellulose in forage and require other high-protein foods...
Coal 12 Eye power station Eye Suffolk East Biomass (poultrylitter) 13 1992 World's first poultrylitter fuelled power plant Farnborough Farnborough Hampshire...
poultry houses. Conversely, nematodes with direct life cycles or those that utilize intermediate hosts such as beetles, which are common in poultry houses...
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