How to Clean Automated Drinking System for Poultry

In the process of raising chickens, we must pay attention to the role of water, ensure the supply of drinking water for chickens, and pay more attention to the quality and hygiene of drinking water. To create a good drinking water environment for chicken production can improve the production performance of chicken flocks. In the drinking water management of chicken farms, it is generally believed that the chicken watering line of the chicken house is closed, which can effectively prevent external pollution. Therefore, daily management often only pays attention to the use of its water supply, and ignores cleaning and disinfection. Therefore, the pollution of drinking water by water lines has become a prominent problem in chicken house management.

The main reasons for drinking water pollution in chicken house water lines are as follows:

1. Because the waterline is a closed water pipeline, it is difficult to observe its internal conditions, and people's concept of waterline purification is not strong, and it has become normal not to clean the waterline.

2. The warm environment in the waterline provides a hiding place and conditions for the rapid reproduction of pathogens. The biofilm of a sticky matrix produced by the accumulation of microorganisms in the pipeline also provides a protective place for the host of bacteria. The killing effect of disinfectants. Therefore, once the biofilm is formed in the water line, there is a danger of the drinking water being polluted.

3. The drugs or vitamins added at the drug inlet of the waterline dosing device form many precipitates on the inner wall of the tube, and these viscous substances increase the difficulty of flushing the pipeline.

Why do farms need to clean up the poultry drinking line?

1. Regular cleaning of the water line during the breeding period can ensure the cleanliness of the drinking water system during the entire breeding period. Because of long-term non-cleaning, a lot of dirt, drug residues, algae and other substances will often accumulate in the water pipeline, drinking fountains, and water tanks. It is full of mucus and breeds microorganisms and bacteria, which seriously affects the health of chickens. Therefore, regular cleaning of the water line can keep the water clean, so as to ensure that the chickens can drink clean drinking water every day and reduce the incidence of chicken diseases.

2. Regular cleaning of the water line during the breeding period can avoid the uneven drinking of the chickens caused by clogging the nipple drinker, leakage of the nipple drinker, etc. Especially in hot summer, insufficient drinking water will cause serious stress to the chickens, so it should be cleaned regularly The water line ensures the feeding and water intake of the chickens, so as to ensure the health of the chickens and improve the uniformity of the chickens. 

3. If the water line is not cleaned for a long time, the nipple drinker is blocked, and the nipple drinker cannot be closed normally, causing the nipple drinker to leak, causing the litter to become moldy, and it is easy to cause enteritis and other diseases after the chickens eat. 

4. If the water line is not cleaned for a long time when the freeze-dried vaccine is immunized with drinking water, drug residues, algae and dirt in the water line will seriously affect the vaccine effect, resulting in immunization failure or greatly reduced immunization effect.

Providing chickens with clean drinking water every day is a must for flock health and optimal economics. Because the lines that deliver drinking water are opaque, we can't see what's inside, so it's easy to overlook this important part when we clean and sanitize the chicken house during the empty chicken house period. After each batch of chickens is eliminated, the drinking water system should be carefully cleaned and disinfected. According to recent reports and measured results, the comparison of well water samples from some chicken farms and water samples at the end of the water line shows that the number of coliform bacteria has increased several times to dozens of times, proving that there is indeed a relatively large number of bacteria in the water line pipeline. Serious drinking water pollution problem. The cleaning method of the waterline system In view of the different degrees of pollution in the drinking water of the chicken house, the awareness of drinking water safety must be enhanced in the management of the chicken farm. A successful large-scale chicken farm should be formulated and formulated according to the requirements of drinking water hygiene management and farm conditions Implement a reasonable set of cleaning and disinfection procedures for drinking water systems. The drinking line have a variety of structures and their status is constantly changing, all of which present challenges for waterline hygiene.

How to clean the water line?

1. It can be used with a waterline-specific disinfectant and a waterline brush.

At night, pour the disinfectant into the waterline before turning off the lights in the chicken coop, and start soaking the waterline. Wait until the next morning to start draining the sewage in the waterline in an orderly manner, and then use a brush to remove the water from the waterline. One end enters and brushes back and forth repeatedly until there is no turbidity on the inner wall of the water line. I think this method is more suitable for small chicken coops with a length of 100 meters. It is easier to clean and the effect is more thorough.

2. Use the special disinfectant for the drinking line and the high-pressure water pump to clean up. 

The specific method is to pour the disinfectant into the water line before turning off the lights at night and wait until the next morning to discharge the sewage in the water line, and then use the prepared high-pressure water pump to connect the water line. After that, the water line is repeatedly cleaned with clean water so that the high water pressure provided by the water pump can be used to clean up all the pollutants on the inner wall of the water line. I think this method is more suitable for medium and large chicken houses with a waterline length of more than 100 meters.

3. The drinking line cleaning cycle

The drinking line used in the chicken house should be determined according to the actual situation of the local water quality, but I think it should be kept at a normal time of one to two weeks to clean the water line. If the local water quality is really poor, the water line should be cleaned every week. once. If the water line is used for more than this time, a biofilm will form on the inner wall, providing a breeding ground for many pathogenic bacteria. Here, poultry farmers must pay special attention.

4. Other matters needing attention

When our farmer friends clean the water line, we must purchase qualified disinfection preparations with guaranteed quality through regular channels to soak the water line. If it is a preparation containing chlorine or peracetic acid, do not configure it in advance, configure it when you want to use it. In addition, the soaking time must be selected after the lights are turned off to the next day before dawn, so as to avoid the chickens drinking contaminated water by mistake. The power of the water pump must be suitable, if it is too large, it will increase the pressure of the water line and cause damage.

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