Source: OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY submitted to NRP
WATER QUALITY ISSUES IN POULTRY PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING
Sponsoring Institution
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Project Status
COMPLETE
Funding Source
HATCH
Reporting Frequency
Annual
Accession No.
0195074
Grant No.
(N/A)
Cumulative Award Amt.
(N/A)
Proposal No.
(N/A)
Multistate No.
W-195
Project Start Date
Oct 1, 2000
Project End Date
Sep 30, 2005
Grant Year
(N/A)
Program Code
[(N/A)]- (N/A)
Recipient Organization
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
(N/A)
CORVALLIS,OR 97331
Performing Department
ANIMAL SCIENCES
Non Technical Summary
Agricultural wastes in the poultry industry may contribute to the reduction of water quality. This project attempts to develop methods to compost manure and hatchery waste easily to reduce its potential environmental impact, and to identify changes over time.
Animal Health Component
100%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
(N/A)
Applied
100%
Developmental
(N/A)
Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)Subject of Investigation (SOI)Field of Science (FOS)Percent
30732991060100%
Knowledge Area
307 - Animal Management Systems;

Subject Of Investigation
3299 - Poultry, general/other;

Field Of Science
1060 - Biology (whole systems);
Goals / Objectives
1. Develop methods for proper management and recycling of poultry production and processing waste to improve water quality. 2. Determine water quality factors that affect poultry performance and market product quality.
Project Methods
Objective 1: My intent is to compost broiler litter (manure and bedding) in the poultry house between batches of birds to determine its further effectiveness as litter for subsequent batches of broilers. Ammonia levels and microbiological analysis will be performed. In addition, applied hatchery waste composting will be studied to determine its effectiveness in rendering the product useful for spreading on agriculture land. Objective 2: Sample water of Oregon's broiler farms to determine changes that have occured in 18 parameters, if any, since the last exhustive survey in 1991.

Progress 10/01/00 to 09/30/05

Outputs
Due to a job change there was no progress on this project.

Impacts
Proper composting of poultry wastes will make this product of the industry less of impact to Oregon's water quality

Publications

  • No publications reported this period


Progress 01/01/04 to 12/31/04

Outputs
Due to a job change there was no progress on this project.

Impacts
Proper composting of poultry wastes will make this product of the industry less of impact to Oregon's water quality

Publications

  • No publications reported this period


Progress 01/01/03 to 12/31/03

Outputs
In house composting, both windrow composting of broiler litter and container composting of mortality will be accomplished to illustrate the processes to students.

Impacts
Proper composting of poultry wastes will make this product of the industry less of impact to Oregon's water quality

Publications

  • No publications reported this period