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Housing Conditions of Broilers as Affected by Charcoal Treated Litter

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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Animal and poultry production

Abstract

Maintaining dry litter is a key objective for successful broilers production. Two different types of litter (wood shavings straw and sand), and three different forms of charcoal in the litter, were arranged as treatments in a totally randomized block design (no treated litter, charcoal crumples and charcoal pellets). This experiment was conducted to evaluate the housing conditions (airborne and litter conditions) of broilers as affected by charcoal treated litters (wood shavings straw and sand). 180 one-day-old Cobb broiler chicks were split into six treatment groups, with three individuals per treatment (10 chicks per each).. Results of litter conditions as moisture, caking rate and bacterial count showed significant differences (P≤0.05) among studied litter treatments or types. Sand litter had significant superiority of moisture, caking rate and bacterial count over the wood shavings litter. Also, charcoal crumples and charcoal pellets treated litter decreased litter moisture percentage and bacterial count, while, insignificant differences were found in litter pH. The lowest ammonia concentrations inside the poultry house are observed for charcoal crumples and charcoal pellets treated litters. However, no significant differences were found in airborne dust particulates among studied litter treatments or types. The addition of charcoal (crumbles or pellets) to sand litter decreased litter moisture and ammonia levels, over that of wood shavings litter. Finally, charcoal treated sand may be used in place of wood shavings as litter material, with beneficial effects on the birds' health. This is dependent on the effectiveness of the charcoal and the availability of the sand.

DOI

10.21608/nvjas.2022.167141.1098

Keywords

Housing, Broilers, Charcoal, Litter

Authors

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Farghly

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Affiliation

Department of Poultry and Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Asuit University, Egypt

Email

farghly20002000@yahoo.com

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First Name

Ghada

Last Name

Fayez

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Affiliation

Department of Poultry and Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture, New Valley University, Egypt

Email

ghadafayez.1235@gmail.com

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Orcid

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First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

El-Kelawy

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Affiliation

Department of Poultry and Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture, New Valley University, Egypt

Email

m.elkelawy@gmail.com

City

El-Kharga

Orcid

0000-0002-5856-9385

Volume

2

Article Issue

6

Related Issue

36974

Issue Date

2022-10-01

Receive Date

2022-10-28

Publish Date

2022-10-01

Page Start

349

Page End

356

Print ISSN

2805-2420

Online ISSN

2805-2439

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https://nvjas.journals.ekb.eg/article_268631.html

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5

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Original Research

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2,101

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Publication Title

New Valley Journal of Agricultural Science

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https://nvjas.journals.ekb.eg/

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Housing Conditions of Broilers as Affected by Charcoal Treated Litter

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Created At

23 Jan 2023