The Importance of Water Treatment in Poultry Farming
Water quality is probably the least that farmers pay attention to in the management of animals. In fact, over 90 percent of poultry farmers serve their birds just any water without evaluating its quality. However, it has been found that unsafe or contaminated water is sometimes responsible for some of the health or performance issues in chickens and other farm animals.
Learn MoreIn livestock farming, the water given to animals is often gotten directly from the soil (in form of a well or borehole) and then stored in tanks before consumption. Regardless of the origin of the water, it must be treated to ensure that it is safe or uncontaminated at the drinking level to help achieve the highest performance or profitability by the animals.
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Water is disinfected or treated basically to remove pathogenic microbes present in it. These microbes are capable of causing infections and diseases. Several diseases are transmitted via drinking water from external supplies, fountains, wells, boreholes or public water supply networks. Similarly, drinking water gets contaminated within a livestock farm through tanks, pipes and drinkers.
Water treatment or disinfection is highly necessary as one of the procedures to get safe drinking water for animal use within livestock production facilities. This is to reduce the chances of infections and diseases. Fortunately, biocides are available to do justice to harmful contaminants and micro-organisms in the water meant to be served to man and animals.
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What are Biocides?
Biocides are synthetic or naturally occurring chemical substances or microorganisms that are intended to destroy, counteract, neutralize, prevent the action of, or otherwise exercise control over, any organism considered harmful to man and animals. Some examples of biocides are:
Anhydrous sodium dichloroisocyanurate
Calcium hypochlorite
Chlorine
Chlorine dioxide
Hydrogen peroxide
Potassium peroxymonosulfate
Sodium dichloroisocyanurate
Sodium hypochlorite
Sulfur dioxide
Trichloroisocyanuric acid
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There globally accepted and approved biocidal products (water treatment chemicals) for poultry farms and homes to prevent water-borne diseases which can be gotten at veterinary drugs stores.
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