Chicken bed reuse

Dornelas, Karoline Carvalho; Mascarenhas, Nágela Maria Henrique; Rocha, Priscila Almeida Dos Santos da; Ton, Ana Paula Silva; Amaral, Adriana Garcia do; Schneider, Roselene Maria; Brito, Alícia Nayana dos Santos Lima de; Furtado, Dermeval Araújo; Nascimento, José Wallace Barbosa do

doi:10.1007/s11356-023-25850-8

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“…Chicken excreta or litter is the waste created in huge amounts all over the globe (Aires 2009;Dornelas et al 2023). Poultry litter remains a serious concern, and it is comprised of excrement, feathers, stray feed, dietary products and support matrix, which can differ as per the national and local conditions, like sawdust, shavings, nut shell, rice husk and others (Sanchuki et al 2011).…”

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Assessment of bacterial diversity in the chicken litter: A potent risk to environmental health

Kumar,

Anwer,

Mehra

et al. 2023

J Exp Bio & Ag Sci

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Using chicken litter as an organic fertilizer on land is the most common, cheapest and environmentally safest way to manage the latter generated swiftly from the poultry industry. Raw chicken litter has been applied to field soils where various vegetables are cropped to increase yield or productivity. However, the chicken litter frequently come in contact with different environments, such as water, soil, microbes and vegetation. When chickens defecate, their litters, in a few countries, are particularly reused for the next flock, potentially causing cross-contamination. Due to various contact points in the environment, a high probability of bacterial transmission is predicted, which could lead to infection spread in animals and humans. Consumption of contaminated water, food, and meat could lead to the transmission of deadly infections. Microbes in the chicken litter also affect the grazing animals while feeding on fields duly applied with chicken litter as manure. The maximum permissible limits (MPLs) in the chicken litter for land application should not exceed 106-108 CFU/g for Coliform bacteria. Antibiotics are regularly mixed in the diet or drinking water of chicken grown in marketable poultry farms for treating bacterial diseases. Rampant usage of antimicrobials also results in resistant bacteria's survival in animal excreta. Herein, we surveyed the literature to identify the major bacterial genus harboured in the fields applied with chicken manure to increase soil fertility. Our detailed survey identified different bacterial pathogens from chicken litter samples from different investigations. Most studies showed the prevalence of Campylobacter, Salmonella, Enterococcus, E. coli, Bacillus, Comamonas, Proteus and Citrobacter, including many other bacterial species in the chicken litter samples. This article suggested that chicken litter does not meet the standard parameters for direct application as organic fertilizer in the fields. Before being applied to the ground, chicken litter should be treated to lessen the danger of polluting crops or water supplies by reducing the prevalence of harmful bacteria carrying antibiotic-resistance genes.

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Assessment of bacterial diversity in the chicken litter: A potent risk to environmental health

Kumar,

Anwer,

Mehra

et al. 2023

J Exp Bio & Ag Sci

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The Influence of Regenerated Litter on the Productive Performance and Well-Being of Rearing Young Chickens

Ryabinina,

Melnyk

2023

STBIAS

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Due to the shortage and high cost of bedding materials, the regeneration of used reinforcement and its repeated use is an urgent problem in modern poultry farming. However, at the same time, there is a threat of the negative impact of such litter on poultry. Several studies have proved the possibility of raising broiler chickens on regenerated bedding. Less studied is the option of using regenerated waste in the cultivation and maintenance of poultry with a long production cycle rearing young stock or adult birds. In the State Experimental Poultry Station National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine (SEPS NAASU), the regeneration technology of used litter has been improved. In this study, the impact of the use of litter regenerated according to the developed technology in the rearing of young chickens on the microclimate of the poultry house, well-being, and zootechnical indicators of poultry was studied. The research was carried out on the experimental farm of the SEPS NAASU. According to the results of the investigation, although the initial moisture content of the regenerated litter was higher than the new one (p<0.05), after ten weeks of rearing young animals, the litter moisture content in both variants no longer had significant differences. During the growing period, the content of ammonia and carbon dioxide in the air of the experimental premises did not exceed the maximum permissible concentrations. Still, in the practical room, it was higher than in the control room, especially in the initial cultivation period. The leading difference was 4.4 mg/m3 for ammonia and 0.05% for carbon dioxide. In terms of ammonia content, the difference between the experimental and control variants was statistically significant up to 8 weeks of age (p<0.05) and carbon dioxide content up to 6 weeks of age (p<0.05). There was no negative impact of regenerated litter on the well-being indicators (condition of feather cover, knee joints, and paw feet) and zootechnical indicators of rearing young stock (safety, body weight, and feed conversion). This indicates the possibility of using regenerated litter in the rearing of young chickens without a negative impact on poultry.

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Chicken bed reuse

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Assessment of bacterial diversity in the chicken litter: A potent risk to environmental health

Assessment of bacterial diversity in the chicken litter: A potent risk to environmental health

The Influence of Regenerated Litter on the Productive Performance and Well-Being of Rearing Young Chickens

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