Mr Fendy
Email : mtmkisaran@yahoo.com
I am a chicken farmer layer. I would like to ask, How do I deal with the smell of ammonia caused in the cage layer especially in the battery enclosure? Even though the feces immediately fell to the bottom, the smell of ammonia was still smelled. Please explain.
Answer:
Dear. Mr. Fendy, thank you for the question. We certainly already understand that the location of the chicken farm should be surrounded by a fence and isolated from the surrounding population, where the location is far from residential areas and quite far from other similar farms or at least 500 meters from the location of other poultry farms (ducks, chickens, etc.). This all aims to be easy in the application of biosecurity so that farms are free from outbreaks of infectious diseases.
In running a chicken farm business, biosecurity program is an important thing that must be put forward. This Program is a preventive measure (prevention) in controlling disease in chickens. Biosecurity itself is all management activities that are combined thoroughly to prevent disease seeds from entering, staying and infecting a farm. Talking about the seeds of the disease exist in the environment of the cage and can not be seen by the naked eye, one thing to know is the seeds of the disease can be left even to be able to multiply in organic matter such as feces (example AI virus can survive in feces up to 35 days, bacteria that cause CRD can, etc.), blood, mucus, etc. The spread of the virus can be through the air, dust, clothing cage workers, feed transport vehicles/litter/ feces, insects (flies), etc. This is what underlies the maintenance of chickens should be tried to minimize as much as possible direct contact or even away from the medium of transmission of the disease. What's more, one thing we know that air and flies are not easy for us to control.
From the description above it can be concluded that, if the father's Cage is adjacent to the processing of feces, it will be very vulnerable to the risk of disease outbreaks. Both are transmitted through the Air, flies flying around the cage, clothing of feces processing workers and vehicles that go in and out of the feces processing area. Moreover, if the feces processing system is carried out openly, it is possible that the seeds of the disease can be carried through the dust and Air media so that they will enter the chicken coop.
So what if, for example, on a farm/chicken farm, strict disinfection is applied to prevent the development of disease cultures in the cage environment? It is indeed good because farmers have been aware of the seeds of disease around the cage. But we must also understand that when disinfectants work, they also have limitations, especially related to the presence of organic matter, especially feces, where disinfectant work will not be optimal if organic matter is not removed/cleaned. Moreover, we know that the processing of feces is continuous/continuous production, so it will be difficult to break the chain of disease transmission.
