How to use our bedding?
Use this simple tool to calculate the optimal amount of bedding for your needs.
Additional recommendations
Below are additional tips that will help in effectively using our bedding:
Floor preparation:
Pre-heating the poultry house before spreading the bedding to ensure the right temperature.
Application:
Spread manually or using a spreader, ensuring even coverage.
Management:
For uneven floors, consider filling cracks with cement before application, which is more cost-effective. After breeding, the bedding can be composted or used as fertilizer for fields.
Floor preparation:
Pre-heating the poultry house before spreading the bedding to ensure the right temperature.
Notes:
If the floor is very clean, disinfected, and pre-heated, a smaller amount of bedding can be considered, but with caution.
Recommended values
In the table below, we've collected suggested bedding coverage values for poultry houses. They take into account the type of poultry, floor specifications, and season.
Poultry type | Season | Floor type | Coverage (kg/m)² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broiler | Summer | - | 2.4kg/m² |
| Broiler | Winter | - | 3.2kg/m² |
| Turkey rearing | Summer | Warm | 2.5kg/m² |
| Turkey rearing | Summer | Cold | 5.75kg/m² |
| Turkey rearing | Winter | - | 5.85kg/m² |
| Turkey fattening | Summer | - | 6.65kg/m² |
| Turkey fattening | Winter | - | 8.45kg/m² |
| Laying hen (free range) | Summer | - | 1.5kg/m² |
| Laying hen (free range) | Winter | - | 2.5kg/m² |