The Rural Voice, 1998-04, Page 15Scrap Book
Ozone boosts
animal health
Ozone, a problem for growers
of crops like white beans, may
actually improve the health of
animals in intensive livestock
operations, preliminary results
of an air-quality improvement
project in Regina show.
Envron Environmental Ltd.
installed an ozone generator in
one 25,000 -layer barn at an 0 &
T Poultry Farms Ltd. operation
near Regina in September. By
early January, the results were
noticeable.
"We've seen better shell
quality and our bird health is
better," said Leonard
Underwood of 0 & T.
Each bird is laying, on
average, three to four more
eggs. The number of cracked
and rejected eggs received at the
grading plant is 1.5-2 per cent
less than previous years.
"It's a smoother egg and the
shells are stronger and more
consistent," Underwood says.
Al Finney of Envron
Environmental said the
improvements are a result of the
ozone generator removing one
pound of ammonia gas from the
barn air each day. "We
decreased the ammonia in the
barn by 60 per cent."
Ozone cleans the air by
oxidizing substances, breaking
down pollutants like ammonia
and killing germs, bacteria,
viruses and fungi.
Ozone has been used to
reduce odour and treat water in
Europe for 100 years and has
been used in the U.S. for about
10 years. Finney first
experienced the benefit of
ozonation in a hog barn in Iowa.
There's a danger, however,
since having too much ozone in
the air can irritate eyes and
lungs and an unrestricted flow
would kill animals.0
—Source: Western Producer
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