An Assessment of Some Public Health Problems Resulting from Feeding Poultry Litter to Animals
| Autor: | R.B. Read, Mary L. Schafer, Joseph Lovett, G.K. Murthy, James W. Messer, Albert J. Wehby |
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| Rok vydání: | 1971 |
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Litter (animal)
business.industry Feed additive Broiler food and beverages General Medicine Growing cattle Biology Animal science Animal Science and Zoology Livestock Food science Animal nutrition Nitrogen source business health care economics and organizations reproductive and urinary physiology Poultry litter |
| Zdroj: | Poultry Science. 50:874-881 |
| ISSN: | 0032-5791 |
| DOI: | 10.3382/ps.0500874 |
| Popis: | INTRODUCTION THE rapid development of large-scale broiler and egg production farms in recent years has made the disposal of poultry litter a major problem for producers. Studies by Belasco (1954) and Jurtshuk et al. (1955) showed that rumen microorganisms can utilize the uric acid of poultry litter as a nitrogen source. Feeding studies on the utilization of poultry litter as a feed additive for ruminants demonstrated satisfactory animal nutrition when litter was fed as 20–30% of the ration of growing cattle (Southwell et al., 1958), 10–15% of the ration for lactating ewes (Noland et al., 1955), and 15–25% of the ration of breeder swine (Camp, 1959). Thus, poultry and shell egg producers were provided with a profitable means of litter disposal, and livestock producers were afforded an attractive source of cheap feed with a value on an equivalent basis with grain of fifteen dollars a ton. As… |
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