{"id":1608,"date":"2013-05-20T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joneshamiltonag.com\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2022-08-20T14:51:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T18:51:39","slug":"quick-tips-for-poultry-house-clean-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joneshamiltonag.com\/quick-tips-for-poultry-house-clean-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Tips for Poultry House Clean Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it&#8217;s time for poultry house clean out and litter replacement, keep these <em><strong>6 easy tips<\/strong><\/em> in mind to maximize success with the next flock.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em><strong>Remove all litter down to the dirt pad<\/strong><\/em> as close to the time the last flock leaves as possible.<\/li>\n<li>Remove litter from <em><strong>corners and under sidewalls<\/strong><\/em> by hand if necessary.<\/li>\n<li>Be sure to remove ALL litter from the house during clean out.\u00a0 Any litter left in the poultry house generates ammonia for the next flock.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Let the dirt pad dry<\/strong><\/em> for several days before putting in replacement litter.<\/li>\n<li>Consider acidifying the pad with PLT<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> if the houses are more than 5 years old or if it has been more than 2 years since your last pad acidification. The dirt pad absorbs ammonia that is released during brooding.<\/li>\n<li>Apply at least <em><strong>4 inches of wood based bedding or 6 inches of rice hulls<\/strong><\/em> on the pad. Skimping on litter depth causes multiple problems and headaches that are easiest to prevent with sufficient bedding at the beginning.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Want to know more?<\/strong> Learn more about good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneshamiltonag.com\/poultry-house-management-when-to-clean-out\/\">poultry house clean out practices<\/a>\u00a0and the importance of pad acidification. Still have questions? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneshamiltonag.com\/contact-us\/locate-a-representative\/\">Contact<\/a> your local Jones-Hamilton rep to discuss your questions about house clean out and litter management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it&#8217;s time for poultry house clean out and litter replacement, keep these 6 easy tips in mind to maximize success with the next flock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joneshamiltonag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608"}],"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=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joneshamiltonag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joneshamiltonag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joneshamiltonag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joneshamiltonag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joneshamiltonag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}