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“Ventilation Alone Is Not The Answer To

Control Ammonia Gases In Confinements”

Research from the University of Illinois has concluded that ammonia is one of the biggest problems facing confinement operation today.

Major cause of dysentery and pneumonia today.

Ammonia gases increase rhinitis problems in swine

Surface and pit levels in confinements are usually high. Increasing ammonia gases viruses, bacteria, yeast, fungus and protozoa’s. Ammonia damages the respiratory system and causes degradation of enzyme activity.

Ammonia gas is the most common irritant to membranes that line the eyelids and eye sinuses and dissolves in the fluid of the eyes and mucus membranes to produce ammonia hydroxide, an irritating alkaline compound causing inflammation, decreasing eyesight.

Ammonia gas attacks the circulatory system and breaks down cell metabolism (reduced energy levels), opening up to bacterial outbreaks.

Ammonia can kill a flocks health and performance at 20 ppm- Dr. Terick (DVM) University of Pennsylvania.

Ammonia levels cause health and performance problems by damaging the respiratory system.

Ammonia destroys the (cilia) hair-like projections in the trachea that traps and eliminates dust and airborne bacterial pathogens. The birds natural defense system is impaired, allowing viruses, mycoplasmas, and bacterial to cause infections that lead to declining bird health. Cost of high ammonia levels!

E coli is significantly increased in the lungs, air sacs and livers of birds exposed to ammonia.

Tracheal damage and subsequent E coli infection is not always detectable during grow out, but becomes apparent when condemnations show up at the processing.

Ammonia damages respiratory systems, weakening their defenses; specific disease conditions increase along with E coli infection.

Ammonia has its worst effect early in a flocks life.

(American society of Agricultural Engineers, American Journal of Veterinary Research, Poultry Science, Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory)

Researchers have concluded that the presence of ammonia gas at 10-20 ppm, can cut daily average gain by 12%.

Humans usually cannot detect ammonia gas at these levels!

Food For Thought - Agriculture

In order to sustain life on earth food must be grown locally.

Diversifying crop production into small family farms and utilizing predatory selective insects, birds, insects, worms to open up hardpan soil and increase minerals to roots of plants.

Food should be grown locally fostering sustainability on every community through the small organic family farm.

Every living thing is supported by another living thing, even what farmers refer to as pests.

Let the dairy cows live as cows, pigs be pigs, chickens be chickens, etc., in uncrowded conditions, foraging on the seeds, grasses, insects and even some weeds which are natural to their historical evolution.

Agriculture and domestic drinking supplies are now being structured rather than stripped of their life content.

Gone is the need for growth hormones, and antibiotics fed to animals and birds.

A well diversified production of organic farming, feed animals naturally, structuring water reduces animal fatality, increases growth and health of animals, nurtures the root system of crops and their vitality for those who consume both crops and animals.

We are producing our food with insufficient mineralization at deep levels to the root systems.

The root of a plant is indicative of the health of our planet to the end consumer.

What attracts what we call pests is not genetically modified seeds but our own insistence on monoculture on large commercial farms and sick plants which the pests are designed to eat.

Our children are eating more and receiving less protein than we did 100-200 years ago.

The cause of wars and strife in many parts of the world is due to inefficient farm production lack of fertile land on which to sustain their people.

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