BROWN BEAR WINDROW COMPOSTING TRIAL
Greg Newhart Farm – September 9 to 14, 2007
Samples tested at University of Arkansas Laboratory
Houses 1 and 3 de-caked, houses 2 and 4 windrowed and composted
All houses rebedded with 70 yds of new rice hills
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Total Pathogen
|
Fecal
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C. perfringes
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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Date
|
House #
|
Count
|
Coliform
|
anaerobic spore former
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| 8 Sept | Flock goes out | |||
| 10 Sept |
2
|
2,000,000
|
20,000
|
23,000
|
|
4
|
3,600,000
|
30,000
|
15,000
|
|
| 12 Sept |
1
|
16,000,000
|
20,000
|
16,000
|
|
2
|
130,000
|
<100
|
4,000
|
|
|
3
|
6,300,000
|
questionable <100
|
16,000
|
|
|
4
|
270,000
|
<100
|
21,000
|
|
| 14 Sept |
1
|
5,700,000
|
90,000
|
8,000
|
|
2
|
6,000,00
|
<100
|
2,000
|
|
|
3
|
11,200,000
|
2,500,000
|
21.000
|
|
|
4
|
9,100,000
|
<100
|
6,000
|
|
| 18 Sept |
Next flock placed
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|||
|
Floor Temp (between brooders
|
Air Ammonia (ppm)
|
|||
| 18 Sept |
1
|
89.00
|
||
|
2
|
89.25
|
|||
|
3
|
89.50
|
|||
|
4
|
91.00
|
|||
| 19 Sept |
1
|
88.50
|
4.0
|
|
|
2
|
90.25
|
42.00
|
||
|
3
|
90.50
|
43.00
|
||
|
4
|
91.75
|
52.00
|
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| 24 Sept |
1
|
3
|
Fans on 70 units, off 230 units per day or 336 min, off 1104 min per day
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|
|
2
|
7
|
|||
|
3
|
3
|
|||
|
4
|
5
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