Drinking water hygiene: the key to success
Clean drinking water is important for humans and especially for animals. Cleaning the drinking water system is essential for good hygiene in the poultry house. At Kanters you will find products that make it easy to start every cycle with clean drinking lines. After all, water tastes best out of a clean glass.
How do you get clean drinking water in a farm environment?
The quality and availability of drinking water are very important in every poultry house. Animals drink twice as much as they eat. More and more farmers understand the importance of clean drinking water, but encounter practical problems. High temperatures in the barn and a low flow rate, for instance, quickly lead to polluted drinking water. How do you prevent problems in the barn? Kanters explains.
Contaminated drinking water is easy to recognise
It is quite easy to check whether water is clean. Take a glass and fill it with water from the stable. Would you drink this water? Would you dare to give it to your children? If the answer is ‘No’, you know enough. It is time to clean the drinking water lines. Want to check the drinking water even faster and more efficiently? That is possible with our Optimixx. Clogged drinking nipples are a sign that the drinking water system is dirty.
Contaminated drinking water leads to higher mortality rates
High temperatures in the poultry house at the beginning of the rotation and a low flow rate are an ideal environment for contaminated drinking water. This contamination consists of biofilm. This is a slimy layer that attracts bacteria, yeasts and moulds. Lime, present in hard water, is also a pollutant that causes clogged nipples.
The bacteria, yeasts and moulds in the biofilm are harmful for chickens and cause sick animals and a high drop-out rate. Clogged nipples can also cause wet litter. This causes leg problems for chickens, which in turn can lead to rejection at the slaughterhouse. This costs the farmer money. Fortunately, there is a solution!
Aqua-clean and Cal-clean: the solutions for clean water lines
Aqua-clean is a drinking water cleaner that removes biofilm from the waterlines and makes the drinking lines completely clean again. As soon as the young chickens enter the house, they have immediate access to clean water.
Do you have problems with calcium deposits in the system? Then use Cal-clean. A cleaner that removes limescale from the drinking system.
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Tailor-made solutions for you as a poultry farmer
Aqua-clean®
Powerful disinfectant for a hygienic clean result
- Removal of pollution and biofilm in drinking systems
- Optimal effect of medication, vaccines and additives
- through clean drinking systems
- Lower corrosivity than other disinfectants
- Environment friendly: dissolves in water and oxygen
Cal-clean
Drinking water systems free of lime and iron deposits
- Removes calcium and other mineral deposits
- Prevents sediment and residues in drinking water lines
- Widely applicable on drinking water lines, fogging systems and cooling pads
- Prevents clogged drinking nipples due to limescale deposits
Products for clean drinking water
At Kanters you will find products to improve the health of your animals for every animal species and housing environment. Click below for more information on the products and download our research reports for more background information on their use and effect.
