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Do we care enough about water?
- Author: Mojtaba Yegani
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Water hygiene is the factor must grower take it seriously in sudan we always suffer from water rich with microorganism(coli form bacteria salmonella and viruses and fungi)and organic matter although the solution is simply adding organic acid the acid attack the bacteria which survive in optimal ph rolling between 4 and 7 and taking accurate sample from different places and take care of the flow rate of drinking water system Imad Sudanese Veterinarian
Dear Mojtabe Yegani, A right topic in the right time for discussion. Water is a very essential nutrient, a bird requires for its life. But do we give the importance to water which actually deserves. A bird requires 2 -3 times of water as that of feed intake. An ordinary broiler farmer awares about this fact. But in reality, in India, the number of feeders for broilers are kept @ 1/ 50 birds and the drinkers 1/ 100 birds. Logically the drinker should have been kept in double the quantity. One has to look into the following important parameters in deciding the water whether it is suitable for poultry: a)its microbiological quality; which shall be taken care of by treating the water with an efficient sanitizer/ organic acids. Select the product which shall have effect in water for more than 20 hours since the practice of mixing the water sanitizer in commercial farms is once in 24 hours. b). The second important parameter is pH of water. The digestion in the bird takes place at an acidic pH. If drinking water of poultry has an alkaline pH, it will interfere in notmal digestion and absorption; also alkaline pH enables the growth of pathogenic organisms. One can use an efficient organic acids combination for this. c). Third important parameter is hardness of water. Water hardness above 180 ppm is not suitable for poultry. With high pH and high hardness of water, the birds' digestion is impaired and also the efficacy of medication and vaccination will come down. One can opt for sand filter for reducing hardness of water at the field level in commercial farm, which is a feasible option. R.CHANTHIRASEKARAN, Kemin, India.E mail :chanthirasekaran.r@kemin.com
Mojtaba, I must commend your effort in bringing up this important, byt often neglected by some backyarders. I must confess too, I know the fact that a good drinking water must be provided for poultry all the time, but never thougt of taking sample for test as recommended in your write-up. Thanks for educating me. Rotimi Omole- Ollimountain Farms- Nigeria
Scientifically, technically and operationally, water should be accorded the status of the number one nutrient for poultry performance. No matter how performance enhancing the poultry feed is, water remains the vehicle of driving performance. This factor is well appreciated in Africa and particularly in Nigeria where availablability of safe and right quantity of water is often a limiting factor to profitable performance.
Dear Mojtabe Yegani, thanks for your very good topic. “The statement water is water, has already gone, now a days we see the influence of bad water quality”. With this sentence we always are starting our presentations and educations. One of the problems, is the fact that a lot of people are writing about water and cleaning, and telling that acids or chlorine are cleaning, this is one of the mayor problems, acids and chlorine can just disinfect and no cleaning at all. People have learned that water is just water and they forget that with the high performance now a days, that the water has to be from perfect quality, as the water intake is almost twice then the feedintake, we also use the sentence "water the most important nutrient" Watch out with products like peracetic acids as they are very corrosive and are suspected to promote cancer Jan van Geest www.intracare.nl
