Poultry Management: No pathogen risk in litter reuse
Published:January 15, 2008
Summary
Preliminary results from a Poultry CRC project being undertaken by DPI&F Queensland examining the reuse of chicken litter across broiler cycles have indicated that levels of food-borne pathogens are not any higher in re-used litter than those found in single-batch rearing. The Project Leader, QDPI&F's Nalini Chinivasagam, commenced litter trials on two farms in June last year with the ai...
Nalini,
your project seems to very useful, I feel to be on the safer side, can we go in spraying of good disinfectant so that the risk of pathogen is reduced.
Dr Sushanth Rai