Design, Fabrication And Testing Of A Hand Operated Poultry Deep Litter Waste Removal Machine
ABSTRACT
The manually operated
poultry litter removal machine was fabricated to address the challenges
associated with the local method of poultry litter removal in a deep litter
system of poultry housing/management applicable to both small and medium scale
poultry production farms. The machine was put to test for three different
bedding materials (sawdust, wood shavings and rice hulls) conditioned at three
different moisture contents 30%, 25% and 28% as that of the poultry dropping
plus the litter materials. The machine productivity, removal efficiency, power
and cost criterion were investigated to evaluate the machine performance. The
results obtained from the physical properties test conducted (moisture content
and bulk densities) of the litter materials used showed that sawdust retains
the highest moisture and bulk density, followed by wood shaving, with rice hull
having the least. Also, there is a significant difference between the machine
packing method and the local packing method (using shovel and broom), thus the
average litter removal efficiency of the machine of 78% was achieved at the
above stated moisture contents,
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EGBUKICHI, J (2021). Design, Fabrication And Testing Of A Hand Operated Poultry Deep Litter Waste Removal Machine. Repository.mouau.edu.ng: Retrieved May 18, 2024, from https://repository.mouau.edu.ng/work/view/design-fabrication-and-testing-of-a-hand-operated-poultry-deep-litter-waste-removal-machine-7-2
JEREMIAH, EGBUKICHI. "Design, Fabrication And Testing Of A Hand Operated Poultry Deep Litter Waste Removal Machine" Repository.mouau.edu.ng. Repository.mouau.edu.ng, 02 Nov. 2021, https://repository.mouau.edu.ng/work/view/design-fabrication-and-testing-of-a-hand-operated-poultry-deep-litter-waste-removal-machine-7-2. Accessed 18 May. 2024.
JEREMIAH, EGBUKICHI. "Design, Fabrication And Testing Of A Hand Operated Poultry Deep Litter Waste Removal Machine". Repository.mouau.edu.ng, Repository.mouau.edu.ng, 02 Nov. 2021. Web. 18 May. 2024. < https://repository.mouau.edu.ng/work/view/design-fabrication-and-testing-of-a-hand-operated-poultry-deep-litter-waste-removal-machine-7-2 >.
JEREMIAH, EGBUKICHI. "Design, Fabrication And Testing Of A Hand Operated Poultry Deep Litter Waste Removal Machine" Repository.mouau.edu.ng (2021). Accessed 18 May. 2024. https://repository.mouau.edu.ng/work/view/design-fabrication-and-testing-of-a-hand-operated-poultry-deep-litter-waste-removal-machine-7-2