Looking to up your game with litter management? Visit Litterpedia, a new resource developed by AgriFutures in Australia.
The website features non-commercial articles, fact sheets and videos on litter selection, litter assessment, disposal options, drinker management, litter tilling, ventilation and other topics related to managing this key component of commercial poultry production.
Visitors can also download the booklet, Best Practice Manual for Managing Litter, which covers bedding selection, including sourcing letter and quality control; shed heating and cooling; litter pests; litter re-use, caking and litter conditioning and spent litter utilization.
“Chicken litter, or bedding, is an essential part of breeding and growing meat chicken,” says one of the site’s developers, Mark Dunlop, principal environmental researcher for the department of agriculture and fisheries, Queensland.
“Here you will find litter resources… including fact sheets, guides, videos and webinar recordings. There are also links to research project summaries and completed project final reports.”
AgriFutures Australia is one of 15 research and development corporations that service the needs of Australian rural industries.
