Reducing ammonia emissions in poultry

Ammonia emissions can be reduced by up to 50% through nutritional strategies that reduce nitrogen in excreta and prevent ammonia from being released into the environment. The formulation of diets to more closely meet the bird’s amino acid requirements and the addition of fibre are key. Poultry manure and its nitrogenous compounds can be a potential pollutant causing eutrophication, nitrate or nitrite contamination of water, ammonia volatilisation and acid deposition in the air. Therefore,