Poultry Studies 2013, Vol 10, Num, 1     (Pages: 025-034)

Litter Materials and Litter Material Management Used in Production on the Ground

Ahmet Şekeroğlu 1 ,Hasan Eleroğlu 2 ,Musa Sarıca 3 ,Ömer Camcı 4

1 Niğde Üniversitesi Tarım Bilimleri ve Teknolojileri Fakültesi Hayvansal Üretim ve Teknolojileri Bölümü-Niğde
2 Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Şarkışla Aşık Veysel Meslek Yüksekokulu-Sivas
3 Ondokuzmayıs Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Zootekni Bölümü-Samsun
4 Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Zootekni Bölümü-Hatay
- A type of support material has significant contribution to performance and health of winged which are grown on settlement system including based material. Wood dusts, fodder, sawdust as generally based material are in common use and additionally regional materials are also in use. The base material is used in one and one more and ammonium and microbial loading is inclining due to the based material which is used. That's why; management of based material is a crucial issue. To decline problems of performance and prosperity due to based material, physical, chemical and biological based material arranger usage is a significant. Consequently, demands to based material have increased on settlement system with based material. Hence, to consider based material and its choice and based material management, to decline adverse effect of based material to environment, and to preserve fertilizer value of based material, methods need to be developed. Keywords : Litter material, Litter management, Broiler