Assessment of indoor environment to influence the production of gosling broilers when using sanitary litter

Abstract

The purpose of research and production experiment in the conditions of Akhmetov farm located in the Vysokogorsky district of the Republic of Tatarstan was to study a new sanitary litter material and the effect on the indoor environment, production, viability and feed input required to rear gosling broilers. The experiment found that the new sanitary litter material, made of thermochemically and biotechnologically processed woodworking waste, over the entire period of research was characterized by higher qualities compared to raw sawdust. Accordingly, in the end, the moisture of the said material was lower by 28.5 %, the total microbial count and numbers of microscopic fungi were less by 13.3 % and 19.9 %, respectively. The said litter material helped to improve the environment in the poultry house, which reduced harmful gases (carbon dioxide – 0.11 % and ammonia – 0.33 mg/m3), dust – 0.9 mg/m3 and microorganisms – 8.9 thousand bwt/m3. Ultimately, this contributed to a higher daily live weight gain by 7.51 % and livestock viability by 1.80 %, and, sequentially reduced feed input per 1 kg of live weight gain by 4.98 %, as compared with the control.