Water

Adequate water supplies of suitable quality is essential for breeding, growing and processing meat chickens.

The ‘Industry best practice manual for water quality management and sterilisation ‘is a key guide for all chicken farmers and processors. This manual is available to download or can be viewed as an online version.

Fact sheets from this project are:

• Top 10 tips to get the best water for your chickens
• How to take water samples

Research

Water-related research final reports and summaries for the chicken meat industry, funded by the AgriFutures Australia Chicken Meat Program, include:

• Water security for the chicken meat industry – final report (PRJ-012274), published July 2021
• Industry best practice manual for water quality management and sterilisation – final report summary (PRJ-011587), published December 2020
• Effect of an in-shed sprinkler cooling system on temperature, relative humidity, water usage, litter conditions, live weight and mortality – final report (PRJ-010245)

Another key industry guide is the National water biosecurity manual poultry production (PDF, 1.83MB), a report commissioned by the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, published in August 2009.

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This website is administered on behalf of the AgriFutures Chicken Meat Program by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland through the ‘Training and extension for the chicken meat industry’ project (PRJ-011920). This project is funded by the AgriFutures Chicken Meat Program.

For more information about the AgriFutures Chicken Meat Program, click here.