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The effect of a slurry additive on odour and ammonia emissions from pig buildings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2017

R.M. Kay ,
B.F. Pain ,
C.R. Clarkson  and
T.H. Misselbrook
R.M. Kay
Affiliation:
()ADAS, Terrington E.H.F., Terrington St. Clement, King’s Lynn, Norfolk PE34 4PW
B.F. Pain
Affiliation:
()I.G.E.R., North Wyke Station (Grassland Division), Okehampton, Devon EX20 2SB
C.R. Clarkson
Affiliation:
()I.G.E.R., Hurley, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 SLR
T.H. Misselbrook
Affiliation:
()I.G.E.R., Hurley, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 5LR
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Approximately 500 Justifiable complaints of offensive odours from pig farms are received annually. Slurry additives for odour control, if successful, would be of considerable public good. Earlier work at Institute of Grassland & Environmental Research (I.G.E.R.) Hurley on the efficacy of slurry additives for controlling odour emission from pig slurry, showed one product (Homogen; containing brown algae, calcium and magnesium alginates and substances to selectively support the multiplication of facultative anaerobes; Mycatec Laboratories) to give promising results on small scale stores (80 litre) of pig slurry. This experiment was designed to test the efficacy of the slurry additive Homogen on a commercial scale on pig finishing pens with slurry stores.

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Pigs
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1992 , March 1992 , pp. 138
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1992

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