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Ways to Minimize Nitrogen Emissions in Agricultural Farms

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Sustainability of Agricultural Environment in Egypt: Part II

Part of the book series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry ((HEC,volume 77))

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The overwhelming scientific unanimity is that gases produced by a different agricultural system including poultry farms are affecting the climate of the globe. One of the ecological defiances is poultry manure elimination and/or utilization. Chicken manure and its nitrogenous compounds could be a prospective pollutant rising eutrophication, nitrite or nitrate impurity of water, acid precipitation in the air, and ammonia volatilization. Thus, lowering nitrogen excretion in fowl litter is necessary to keep an immaculate environment. Appropriate nutrition is a significant first step to optimize growth and performance in animals and to lower the negative effects on the environment. Amino acids are components of fowl nutrition that largely affect animal growth. However, deficient or surplus amino acid supplementations in diets elevate nitrogen emission. One way to lower this emission is to prohibit uricase vigor in the microflora in chicken manure. Egg yolk antibodies are economic alternates for supplementation in the diets of chickens. Administration of feed grade antibodies into poultry feed could be a probable program to reduce bacterial uricase action and minimize ammonia excretion from chicken manure. To utilize this dietary strategy efficiently, a well-balanced ration formulation and a more feasible method of delivering the antibodies in feeds need to be improved.

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  1. Department of Poultry, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

    Mohamed E. Abd El-Hack

  2. Department of Histology and Cytology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Damanhour University, Damanhour, Egypt

    Ahmed E. Noreldin

  3. Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

    Samir A. Mahgoub

  4. Department of Animal Sciences, University College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan

    Muhammad Arif

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Abd El-Hack, M.E., Noreldin, A.E., Mahgoub, S.A., Arif, M. (2018). Ways to Minimize Nitrogen Emissions in Agricultural Farms. In: Negm, A., Abu-hashim, M. (eds) Sustainability of Agricultural Environment in Egypt: Part II. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 77. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2018_293

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