Drying poultry manure to protect the environment

Many poultry farmers are looking for solutions to reduce ammonia and fly problems caused by their layer operation. Others are looking for options to make money from the litter by selling it as fertiliser. Both can take advantage of a new poultry drying system.

Poultry litter can be a nuisance, especially when you do not treat it well and leave it wet on a pile in or outside your poultry house. It releases high levels of ammonia causing poor environmental conditions for the birds and the workers inside the house as well as for the neighbours. In addition, ammonia is seen as a gas which harms the environment and for that reason governments insist on minimising the release of this noxious gas into the atmosphere.

It is for these reasons that there is increasing interest by medium and large scale poultry producers to dry poultry droppings in as well as outside the poultry house. Most poultry housing systems choose to dry the poultry droppings at the manure belt inside the house. These systems however have limited capacity and tend to create a lot of dust. Therefore, more and more poultry farmers opt to use poultry manure rotary dryer machine to dry the manure outside the house. This poultry litter drying machine reduces the release of ammonia and the production of dust and moist in the poultry house. By drying the manure in a conditioned environment, where ammonia and dust can be captured, less energy is required.