Source: Michael Fielding, MEATINGPLACE, 3/13/17



USPOULTRY and the USPOULTRY Foundation have completed a research project at the University of Georgia in which the researchers found evidence of a new tool to reduce ammonia emission from broiler litter.

Researchers evaluated the addition of nitrocompounds to broiler diets to minimize the emission of ammonia from the broiler litter. They found that adding nitroethanol or nitropropanol into broiler diets influences the degradation of uric acid to ammonia and does not have negative effects on broiler performance.

The observed effects on ammonia emission may be due to the inhibition of uric acid-utilizing bacteria in the poultry manure by the nitrocompounds, the researchers found.

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