Poultry Litter Selection, Management and Utilization in Nigeria

Musa, Wafaa Ibrahim Ahmed; Lawal, Suleiman; Kaltungo, B. Y.; Abubakar, Usman; Wakawa, A. M.

doi:10.3923/ajpsaj.2012.44.55

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“…Therefore, environmentally friendly and economically sustainable technologies for poultry waste management must be focused in today's climatic challenges. Efforts to manage poultry wastes under intensive production systems led to the discovery of suitable poultry droppings and moist absorbents called litter material [7,8]. Animal welfare organizations have seriously raised concern on how commercial birds are deprived of exhibiting their natural behaviours by caging.…”

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“…To this end, some advanced countries have enacted laws banning the use of conventional poultry cages. Wood shavings and saw dusts are now being utilized to produce paper and other wood products while alternative litter materials, such as rice hulls, pines and groundnut shells, are seasonal [8,9]. These imply that, deep litter system of poultry management may be more acceptable than caging and consequently the demand and cost of litter materials will significantly increase [9].…”

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“…Adequate litter materials in deep litter management system may therefore not be guaranteed and/or the litter materials will become scarce and not easily accessible [4]. The implication is that poultry farmers are not likely to obtain adequate and good quality litter material for their birds [1,8]. This may result in farmers trying many unconventional litter materials that may affect poultry health, welfare, performance and the environment.…”

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“…The poultry manure enhance physical, chemical and biological fertility of soil by ensuring adequate levels of organic matter, water holding ability and oxygen diffusion rates. However, poultry litter may contain pathogenic microorganisms, drug residues and hard or metallic objects that are injurious to crops, poultry, humans and other domestic animals [8,11,[17][18][19]. Arsenic compounds are known for their potentials to cause cancers but unfortunately used to control coccidiosis in many countries [20].…”

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Poultry Litter Selection, Management and Utilization in the Tropics

Waziri¹,

Kaltungo²

2017

Poultry Science

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In many places, poultry farms are sited and intensively managed in the residential areas with little welfare improvement and major concern of poultry waste disposal. The mean poultry litter generated per bird/day was estimated at 0.11 kg so that millions of metric tons of poultry manure are annually generated. Wastes generated from poultry farms constitute hazard to public health as well as potential source of conflict between neighbours. Beside environmental consequences, poultry waste impacts serious welfare and production effects on poultry. Suitable poultry droppings and moist absorbents referred to as litter materials were later discovered. Recently, conventional caging of birds is considered unethical, common litter materials are seasonally available, wood based litter materials are now being diverted for the manufacture of other wood products, the use of poultry litter as fertilizer and livestock feed supplement has increased, therefore, the demand and price for litter materials is now magnified. Adequate litter materials cannot be easily met by farmers and non-environmentally friendly alternative litter materials may be sought by farmers creating negative socioeconomic impacts on poultry and the environment. Therefore, careful selection, adequate management and proper storage and utilization of poultry litter are here given due attention.Many research works were conducted to determine the suitability of wood shavings, sand, pine peanut shells, shavings, shredded papers or paper chips, dry straw, rice hulls, maize cobs, corn silage and peat as alternative litter materials [7,21,22]. Timber by-products, rice hulls and shredded papers appear to be most accessible worldwide. The basic requirements of a good litter include moisture holding capacity, microbial tolerating ability, low cost, availability and non-toxicity to poultry [23,24]. Bases for choosing good litter materials should include the ability to protect birds from dirt, damp and cold floor; it should also be able to adequately conserve heat and absorb moisture. For good production performance, litter materials should provide comfort for birds [24,25].

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Poultry Litter Selection, Management and Utilization in the Tropics

Waziri¹,

Kaltungo²

2017

Poultry Science

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“…The use of poultry litter (BOLAN et al 2010;MUSA et al 2012) and swine slurry (CERETTA ET AL. 2005;SÀNCHEZ;GONZÁLEZ 2005;SEIDEL et al 2010, PINTO et al 2014) as a source of nitrogen in major grain crops such as corn and wheat is already well documented in the literature.…”

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Poultry litter and swine compost as nutrients sources in millet

Basso¹,

Muraro²,

Girotto³

et al. 2017

Biosci. J.

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Poultry and pork farming are typical activities of small farms in southern Brazil. This production plays an important social and economic role in many of these areas as it is often the main income source. The swine compost has emerged as an alternative to reduce the volume of swine wastewater, which is transformed into a residue that can be easily transported and applied with less environment prejudice. However, there is no information in literature regarding the use of this compound as a source of nitrogen in grain crops. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate poultry litter and swine compost as organic sources of nitrogen for the millet crop. The experiment was conducted in the years of 2013 and 2014 in southern Brazil, in no-tillage systems in a Hapludox soil. The treatments were: control (without nitrogen); poultry litter (PL), swine compost (SC) and mineral fertilization (NPK). The use of poultry litter resulted in better averages for almost all evaluated variables. Although the swine compost did not express results as good as the crop treated with poultry litter, the crop in which the swine compound was applied presented better results for some plant parameters than the chemical fertilizer treatment, which shows that these two residues can be viable alternatives for nitrogen fertilization in millet cultivations.

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