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Evaluating Water Quality for Poultry

Published: December 2, 2016

Summary

Water is the most important nutrient for poultry; survival time is limited in its absence. Birds can survive for longer periods without any other nutrient than they can survive without water. Although water is regarded as the most essential nutrient, it is impossible to state its exact requirements. Birds generally drink approximately twice as much water as the amount of feed consumed on a weigh...

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Authors:

Joseph Hess

Auburn University

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Dr.majed H. Al-jaff

7 de diciembre de 2016

very important subject, specially in layers..poor qualjty water will cause visceral gout which has adverse effect on birds (high mortality , decrease egg production & low performance ) Dr.Majed H. AL- Jaff Consultant IRAQ

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Ismet Mamode

Food & Allied Group of Companies

7 de diciembre de 2016

Farmers should not neglect the quality of water given to birds. This is one of the criteria to obtain a better profit in the end.

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Tahir Naseem

13 de diciembre de 2016

Thanks for such an informative article. However I have noticed in field conditions that, a pH of 6 and above can't stop E.coli growth in water. So a pH of 5.5 is quite beneficial for this purpose. For this purpose we have to add organic acids in water to decrease pH & also as a water softener. Long term use of organic acids enhance the algae growth, therefore stabilized form of 50percent H2O2 is added in water @0.1ppm. Chlorine dioxide is also a safe option for water sanitation.

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Hashaam Chaudhry

12 de marzo de 2021

Tahir Naseem sir thank you for sharing your ideas Please let me know if water hardness have positive or negative impact on growth performance and medication especially antibiotics

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Khaled Fadlallah

3 de mayo de 2017

Dr. Joseph Hess and Dr.John P. Blake. Thank you for your article about water quality for poultry the element usually neglegted by most poultry producers specially small producers. If I have a water source with increased content of an element like sodium can I decrease sodium content in the feed to overcome it's increase in water?

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