The Calcium-Silicate Powder Application on Broiler Litter to Improve Poultry Health

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10.2991/isessah-19.2019.9How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Calcium Silicate, dairy cow, bedding, mastitis

Abstract

Mastitis is still a serious problem in dairy cows industry because mastitis cause farmers will decrease milk production. This paper described the Calcium Silicate (CaSi) powder application as dairy cow bedding and their impact to dairy cow health. Indirect somatic cell count test (IPB-1 test) has applied to inform the prevalence of mastitis in dairy cow population on farm and to diagnose mastitis in experimental dairy cows. Experimental dairy cows were average 5 year-old and in 3rd lactation. The results showed that manure moisture on flour cage was reduced significantly with application of 500 gram CaSi powder on flour cage, but milk production was not. Mastitis prevalence in farm is 54.29% and 8 from 9 experimental dairy cows was diagnosed mastitis. Experimental dairy cows with application of 500 gram CaSi powder on flour cage showed fewer dairy cows were diagnosed mastitis. The conclusion is the application of CaSi powder can reduce water in manure so that it interferes the growth of pathogenic microorganisms that can cause udder inflammation

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Arman Deskiharto
AU  - Asep Rakhmat
AU  - Deddy Sutarman
AU  - Eko Pribadi
PY  - 2019/12
DA  - 2019/12
TI  - The Calcium-Silicate Powder Application on Broiler Litter to Improve Poultry Health
BT  - Proceedings of the Conference of the International Society for Economics and Social Sciences of Animal Health - South East Asia 2019 (ISESSAH-SEA 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 106
EP  - 108
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/isessah-19.2019.9
DO  - 10.2991/isessah-19.2019.9
ID  - Deskiharto2019/12
ER  -