{"id":11494,"date":"2024-04-11T12:54:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T16:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joneshamiltonag.com\/?p=11494"},"modified":"2024-04-11T14:07:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T18:07:53","slug":"spring-pad-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joneshamiltonag.com\/spring-pad-treatments\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Clean Out Starts with the Pad"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column width=”2\/3″ column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]In the United States, the majority of poultry houses are constructed on top of a dirt pad. Many growers notice that their performance begins to slip as more and more flocks are raised in a house even though the houses are still well managed. Growers also observe that no matter how thoroughly they clean and disinfect a house after a disease outbreak, the disease challenges tend to linger on.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″ column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_single_image image=”10076″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”When Disease and Performance Challenges Linger, Start with the Pad” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column width=”1\/3″ column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_single_image image=”10287″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″ column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Why do lingering issues exist? <\/em><\/strong>The dirt pad in a poultry house will absorb ammonia, increasing pad pH to 8-10. This high pH is very favorable to bacterial and viral growth and survival. In addition, most disinfectants are very high in pH and are inactivated in the presence of organic material so they are unable to disinfect the dirt pad in the house contributing to these lingering problems.\u00a0 One way to combat these problems is by using same litter acidifier you use at brooding in a new way\u2014directly on the dirt pad itself.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PLT can lower pH and eliminate ammonia on the pad just like it can on the litter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,45],"tags":[50,89],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joneshamiltonag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joneshamiltonag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joneshamiltonag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joneshamiltonag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joneshamiltonag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11494"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/joneshamiltonag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11502,"href":"https:\/\/joneshamiltonag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11494\/revisions\/11502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joneshamiltonag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joneshamiltonag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joneshamiltonag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joneshamiltonag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Proper Steps to Pad Acidification with PLT\u00ae<\/sup><\/h3>\n
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