Water Is More Than Just Water
As is commonly known, water is the most important nutrient for animals, and ensuring access to clean and safe water is primordial to ensuring the animals’ optimal performance, growth, and health. In the poultry industry it is known that water in broilers, water is essential for metabolism, nutrient transport, body temperature regulation and joint and organ lubrication. Research has also shown that there is a strong relationship between feed and water consumption, in some cases water consumption being used as an indicator for general flock performance. Although water is crucial for healthy flock development, water receives little to no attention, compared to other factors like nutrition and the environment.
How Does Water Quality Affect Poultry?
Negative water properties can greatly affect the performance of poultry operations. High levels of contaminants, like bacterial, minerals, or other pollutants in the animals’ drinking supply can have detrimental effects on normal physiological properties, resulting in an inferior performance of the operation. Some non-pathogenic bacteria and algae can also modify the waters taste or odor, which results in water refusal, which drops the feed intake and negatively affects broiler performance. In a 2006 survey, 66% of U.S broiler growers responded that improving water parameters was one of the most effective ways of controlling microorganisms in poultry operations, higher than the effectiveness of vaccines and direct fed microbials.
What Can Engeenuity Offer Your Poultry Production?
Faster Growth Times
Having stated the importance of water for poultry, water treated with BioPhoton-X™ by Engeenuity provides the animal with optimized water, which contains improved organoleptic and physicochemical parameters. One example of how we can achieve said effects is by reducing water’s surface tension and neutralizing chemical compounds in water. Using our all-natural, non-chemical, innocuous treatment, we can ensure animals not only obtains added benefits, which is unthinkable from otherwise un-treated water, but also reduce exposure to detrimental water parameters. Instead of the animal using its energy to defend itself against harmful factors, we can control said factors and allow for the animal to use its energy to convert more weight and grow healthy. In a poultry farm, we were able to prove this concept by increasing total weight by approximately 5-10% and reducing sacrifice age by 2-3 days.
Better Quality
Providing poultry with water treated with BioPhoton-X™ correlates to an increase in quality of the products derived. We are also able to use our BioPhoton-X™ treated water in processing of, for example, chicken breast. By rinsing chicken breasts with our treated water, and analysing organoleptic properties like color, smell, sliminess, we were able to extend shelf-life to 10 days, compared to the company’s standard of 7 days. In a separate broiler test done in the year 2019, we were also able to increase the average weight of chickens from 4.92 lbs to 5.18 lbs, an approximate 5% increase in weight.
Mortality Reduction
One of the main requirements for an effective immune response is efficient hydration. The parameters which we can modify and add into water allow for the animals to be hydrated at an optimal level, which translates to a better immune response against external factors which may hinder the animals’ growth. Not only do we limit the potency and number of external factors which may interfere with the animals’ physiological processes, yet we provide the animal with an increased capacity to defend itself, without the use of chemicals. In a poultry farm, data proves our effect in significantly reducing animal mortality upwards of 30%, from an original 5.23% to 2.47%, and in another case from 5.15% to 3.44%.