Failure of drinking water sanitisation to reduce the incidence of natural salmonella in broiler chickens.
The addition of a sanitiser, containing a mixture of organic acids and other approved additives, to water offered to broiler chickens was effective in eliminating salmonella from the drinking water. However, it failed to influence salmonella carriage by the chickens which were still shedding salmonella at market age (seven weeks old).
D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D002432:Cecum / Q000382:microbiology; D002645:Chickens / Q000382:microbiology*; D002988:Cloaca / Q000382:microbiology; D004202:Disinfectants; D004326:Drinking; D011201:Poultry Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D012475:Salmonella / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012481:Salmonella Infections, Animal / Q000382:microbiology*; D013045:Species Specificity; D014871:Water Microbiology
D004202:Disinfectants