Water Supply in Poultry

Dear Mr. Ganesh,

I have also observed that many poultry farm technicians and poultry producers are not aware of the chemical reactions occurring after addition of 2 or more compatible and non compatible items at a time in water.

Lack of such knowledge will leads to adverse effects on poultry production so i am very much thankful for updating and compiling such informative data for the readers.

I hope every body will aware of the importance of water quality in poultry production after reading this data.

Thanks & regards,

Dr Jaydip

Interesting article about water supply of poultry farm. Mainly water is the source of many common infections.These practicle tips will help farmers to maintain clean water supply to the birds and improve the production.
Thanks
Dr.R.K.Trifale

Dear Mr. Ganesh,

Nice article about water supply of poultry farm, informative and very useful tips regarding the compatibility of different chemicals.
Please keep posting more of it.

Kindly guide if TDS level in the water is more than1000 and huge scales are deposited on cooling pads then what should be the solution of it.

Regards,
Manoj Garg

yes a good article about water supply of poultry farm and all commercial farmers are aware of this points mentioned and not a new data produced, basic technical literature

Dear Ganesh,
Many thanx for your prompt reply. If water source is like that only then what type of chemical should be used to reduce the TDS level.

Dear Dr. Ganesh

Excellent article about water supply of poultry farm and full of knowledge. Please continue to write these type of articles which are practical. Congratulations!

Thanks and regards

Dear Mr. Ganesh,

Thanks for quoting the role of hardness with PH level of Water.i.e. Hardness of water is directly proportional to PH of water.

But till one practical question in my mind " for the drinking water having the hardness more than 600 ppm only good quality acidifier works"?

As per my experience where ever hardness of water is more than 600 ppm , the chances are more for respiratory problems apart from using the good quality acidifiers along with sanitizers too. So request you that please advise apart from softeners any other option to reduce the hardness of water?

Awaiting your feedback.

Thanks,

Dear Dr.Jaydip,

I agree with you that chances of disease incidence are more where hard water is used in poultry farm. As we are aware that most of the pathogenic microorganism tend to grow fast in pH above 5 hence the disease prevalence.

Apart from our earlier advice, it will be necessary to install POE (Point Of Entry) Equipment to solve the hard water problem which operates by ION exchange method. This is useful for water conditioning devises and is also used for reducing hardness of wells water and utility supply with high levels of calcium & magnesium. Although a water softener has some filtering ability to filter particulate matter, it is necessary to filter water with heavy turbidity prior to softening process. (I have personally seen this devise / equipment working at Sydney suburb for residential utility & farm use.)

Thanks,

Water is part of the nutrition of all chickens if it is contaminatetd if will affect the growth due to bacterial, hardness and FCR of the bird. Water should highly regulated bt testing for all impurities that make water unsafe to drink , this means that the water should be as clean as that one consumed by humans. dont let your water liners and drinkers contaminated with bi products of water cleaning.

Thanks

Infected water source is one of the major cause of sickness in poultry farm, so birds should be given clean water from clean source. when disease in poultry farm is as a result of water supply, no matter how the birds are treated; the medications given to them, following all the sanitation measures in poultry farming, the disease will still linger on unless the source of water is made clean.

Dear Dahal,

I have some doubt for point no 2 "Ion exchange water softener: In this system, water passes through a resin bed, here the calcium & magnesium ions of hard water are exchanged for sodium ions producing water softened to the desired level. These units generally have a brine tank and resin regeneration is done at site.

In my experience such softener did not gave suitable results and need pakka maintenance.

Resin binds Ca and Mg by sparing two Na and chicken kidney is more vulnerable to ions because it is not like human and high conc. of sodium in the water may also lead to toxicity. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Dear Dr.Barman,

I agree with you that excess sodium ion in drinking water would be harmful for poultry. In my opinion also acidified drinking water is best way to maintain gut health index as GI tract of poultry are acidic by nature.

Thanks for your comments.

Dear. Dahal
Thanks for such a beautiful article. The underground water of our place (Nawalparasi district) is known to contain high level of Arsenic. We use same water for our Layer bird farm. Does Arsenic posses a threat to poultry health as it does to that of human?