Industry best practice manual for water quality management and sterilisation on-farm

• About
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations and definitions
• Introduction
  • General tips for ensuring best practice water quality
  • Disinfection and sanitation
• Water quality criteria
• Overview of water quality issues in Australian meat chicken farms
• Recommended monitoring frequencies and systems
  • Water quality microbial, chemical and physical analysis monitoring
  • System monitoring and maintenance
  • Automated systems and online monitoring system
• Source water management
  • Rainwater
  • Bore water
  • Surface water: dams, rivers, streams
  • Recycled water
  • Supply and storage of drinking and cooling water
• Pre-treatment systems
  • Organic matter treatment
  • Algae treatment
  • pH treatment
  • Salinity treatment
  • Hardness treatment
  • Other metals treatment
  • Pesticide treatment
• Disinfection systems
  • Microbial treatment
  • Extracellular cyanotoxin treatment
• Water distribution system
  • Drinker type
  • Drinker height
  • Water temperature
  • Scale
  • Biofilms
  • Vaccination
  • Shed cooling system
• Water system maintenance
  • Drinking water supply maintenance: source water
  • Drinking water supply maintenance: water storage
  • Pre-treatment
  • Disinfection
  • Shed drinking pipes maintenance
  • Flushing
  • Drinking system cleanout between flocks
• 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
  • Operating procedure: Water sampling
  • Operating procedure: Biofilm swabbing
  • Operating procedure: How to measure water flow
  • Operating procedure: Water line sanitation
  • Operating procedure: Solution dilution
  • Operating procedure: Estimating appropriate contact time for disinfection
• 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
  • Common conversions
  • Disinfection calculation
  • Abbreviations
  • Volume calculations
  • Nutrient conversions
• References