- Watch that Iron
Excessive iron can cause problems for watering systems. Article presents some ways to avoid that, including best practices for keeping watering systems clean.
- Five common poultry watering myths
Many times the roadblocks to better profits are misconceptions about watering
- Upgrading for a successful poultry operation
To remain competitive, producers need to address aging equipment.
- Managing your watering system to promote poultry health
The watering system, and how you manage it, can impact almost every aspect of a poultry operation.
- Protecting water supply crucial for any poultry operation
Most producers understand the importance of having a backup generator; however, some don’t realize they also need to back up the watering system
- Watering system advances can save time and money
Poultry equipment manufacturers seek innovations that can save producers time and money.
- Pressure Pro Installation Manual
For proper and complete installation of the Ziggity Pressure Pro for Floor Watering System please read and follow the illustrated instructions found in this manual.
- Corrosion poses a major threat to poultry operations
A number of factors can negatively impact return on investment, but corrosion is probably the most serious.
- Chemicals that can damage poulty watering systems
Poultry watering system components are primarily comprise of various types of plastic. The use of plastics in the watering systems has many advantages, including the abililty to withstsnd the corrosive atmosphere common to poultry operations.
- Poultry farmers gain new option for filtering water
Parker-Hannifin Corp. recently developed the first water filter made specifically for poultry applications.
- Understanding how a regulator functions
This article examines the very basics of how a nipple-type watering system, especially the regulator, works.
- When was the last time you checked your watering system?
This article discusses what elements of the watering system need examining and gives a time table for those examinations.
- Sand in your watering system: best to stop it at the source
This article provides the procedure to clean a watering system that has a sand problem.
- Use acids in poultry production with caution
Will the gain in production outweigh the costs of replacing equipment damaged by acidifiers?
- Don’t let your watering system become the fatal flaw in your biosecurity program
Any biosecurity program that is truly successful will include extensive prophylactic measures involving the water supply and the watering system.
- How to combat wet litter
Ziggity has developed a series of protocols to help you determine the cause of your wet litter
- Managing heat stress with your watering system
This article discusses tactics producers can take with their watering system to manage heat stress
- Biofilm Basics
This is a short summary of the basics of biofilm.
- Water can be a friend or foe to a poultry operation
Maintaining a good environment inside your poultry barn is necessary if you are to hae healthy and profitable flocks, growout after growout.
- New brochure series highlights ways to improve poultry performance
Poultry producers can learn how to improve bird production through three educational brochures published by Ziggity Systems Inc.
- Clearing the air: the difference between water usage and water consumption
More than a few experts in the poultry industry assume they can determine how much water a flock is consuming by looking at the water meter. That unfortunately is not true, and that assumption can lead to faulty practices.
- Floor Watering Installation Manual
For proper and complete installation of the Ziggity Floor Watering System please read and follow the illustrated instructions found in this manual
- Slope Neutralizer Floor Installation Guidelines
Follow these simple instructions for proper installation of Ziggity Slope Neutralizers in floor applications.
- Managing poultry barn environment key to controlling respiratory disease
Strict adherence to good management practices throughout the poultry operation, especially the watering system, is the only way producers can reduce the impact of respiratory disease on their flocks and profit.
- Managing your watering system to improve feed conversion
Many producers are not aware of the important role the watering system has in the feed conversion process.
- Product bundling not in producers’ best interests
Product bundling may provide producers with a one-time savings when building a new poultry house. However, that bundle of products may result in loses over the long term.
- Ziggity focuses on maximizing system, litter and bird performance
Ziggity is the only company whose sole focus is on poultry watering.
- Ammonia in the poultry house sabotages production; can impact poultry workers’ health
Elevated levels of ammonia in the poultry house can result in a wide range of problems for poultry producers
- Poultry farmers often overlook biofilm growing in watering system
Biofilm is an often overlooked and misunderstood threat to poultry flocks
- Solutions to the five most common challenges found in gravity-controlled water tanks
Gravity-controlled water tanks provide an excellent solution to the challenges of unreliable electric power and intermittent water supply
- Ignore your well at your own risk
Water quality from wells plays an important role in flock performance.
- It may sound like a good idea, but is it really?
Many of the decisions a poultry farmer is asked to make can carry unintended consequences that can hurt the bottom line