The authors gratefully acknowledge AgriFutures Australia for providing research funding and academic support. We would like to thank the industry steering committee (Louise Edwards, Mark Stillman, and Georgina Townsend) that provided integral input to the project, as well as the many industry stakeholders who provided information and individual perspectives that have been used as the basis for this report.
Industry best practice manual for water quality management and sterilisation on-farm
- About
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and definitions
- Introduction
- Water quality criteria
- Overview of water quality issues in Australian meat chicken farms
- Recommended monitoring frequencies and systems
- Source water management
- Pre-treatment systems
- Disinfection systems
- Water distribution system
- Water system maintenance
- Troubleshooting water quality problems
- Issue identification and possible causes
- Source water quality issues
- Pre-treatment issues
- Pre-treatment: general filter issues
- Pre-treatment: media filter issues
- Pre-treatment issues: reverse osmosis
- Disinfection and sanitisation
- Shed issues
- Shed issues: high water consumption
- Shed issues: ineffective microbial treatment
- Shed issues: high organic matter
- Shed issues: pH
- Shed issues: scale build-up
- Shed issues: biofilm build-up
- Operating procedures
- Examples of on-farm water quality testing kits and meters
- Examples of automated doses and meters
- Applicability of pre-treatments and disinfection techniques to different situations
- Common conversions and calculations
- References