Poultry litter definition

Poultry litter means the fecal and urinary excretions of poultry, including wood shavings, sawdust, straw, rice hulls, and other bedding material for the disposition of manure.
Poultry litter or “litter” means all by-products associated with the confinement
Poultry litter or “litter” means all by-products

Examples of Poultry litter in a sentence

  • Poultry litter and grazing animal waste effects on runoff water quality.

  • Poultry litter contains significant amounts of nutrients essential for plant growth.

  • The Power Projects based on Industrial Waste such as Poultry litter, Palm Oil Waste, Starch Waste etc are also promoted in the State of Andhra Pradesh.

  • Poultry litter and other materials shall be stacked at least 6 feet high and peaked to prevent precipitation from soaking into the pile.

  • Complete an “application for Shared Leave” and file it with the Human Resources Department.

  • Poultry litter accounts for a large share of long-haul manure transfers, with wetter slurry and lagoon waste more typical of dairy and hog operations tending to shorter within-county hauls.Manure was applied on approximately 1.6 million acres across the Chesapeake Bay watershed in 2007, including 1.1 million acres on AFOs and 0.5 million acres on non-AFOs (altogether 36 percent of the 4.4 million cropland acres in the CBW) (USDA, NRCS, 2011).

  • Poultry litter has been successfully used to fire boiler units on farms which provide space heating.

  • Poultry litter (manure and bedding) is routinely used as fertilizer to cropland and pasture.

  • Poultry litter is a heterogeneous feedstock, therefore the chemical composition of the poultry litter is dependent on the feeding, bedding material, batch cycle and moisture content.

  • Guedes, et al., Poultry litter ash characterisation and recovery, Waste Manag., 2020, 111, 10–21, DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2020.05.010.


More Definitions of Poultry litter

Poultry litter means bedding material, such as wood shavings, sawdust, or straw, that has been used in a chicken coop or broiler house floor and consists mostly of the bedding material, poultry manure, feathers and spilled feed. (University of Kentucky Poultry Production Manual) “Food Scraps” means organic waste material resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.

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