Water: quality at source, analysis, treatment, wastewater
A chicken drinks almost twice what it eats. A flock of 6,000 finishing broilers swallows more than 2,000 litres a day: if that water carries microbes, the whole flock drinks them, three times an hour. Many farmers look at the water once, on the day of the borehole, and never again. This lesson teaches you to judge a source, to have the water analysed and read the result, to disinfect it without getting it wrong, to protect the water point, and not to discharge wash water where it comes back into the well.
13 min read · 5-question quiz at the end
By Abdul Hussein ChoumanFounder of NEXTEKCI · Agnibilékrou hatchery since 2006This lesson is part of Level 14 — Environment, regulation and sustainability. It opens to registered students who have passed the level 13 exam. Levels 1 to 5 and the tracks remain readable by everyone.
- ✓Calculate a flock's water needs and the reserve to plan
- ✓Judge a water source (borehole, well, mains, river, rain) and protect the water point
- ✓Have the water analysed, read the results and decide
- ✓Disinfect drinking water correctly and manage wash water without polluting