Non-Corrosive

Corrosion of valuable equipment can be the most serious factor that ruins a poultry operations bottom line. Each poultry house contains thousands of dollars of valuable equipment that is susceptible to corrosion. Corrosion can happen anywhere in a poultry operation and current practices in broiler operations only increase the opportunity for corrosion.

Corrosion is simply the deterioration of materials through a chemical reaction with environmental condition. Perhaps the most noted corrosion occurs with the rusting of iron or other such metals. Corrosion is not confined to just metal as it affects plastics, concrete, wood and other materials. The single most deconstructive chemical created by a poultry operation is ammonia. Ammonia will always be produced in a poultry house as it is a reaction between manure, moisture and microbiology. Typically the higher the moisture of a poultry house the greater ammonia levels become. Ammonia is well noted for its detriments to the welfare of the birds but we rarely hear about the its deterioration of metal components in a poultry house. This includes valuable fasteners, heaters, walls, ceilings and any other metal object.

Many poultry farmers combat ammonia by applying an acid product for poultry litter treatment. The purpose of acid products are to lower the Ph value of the litter. The ends of the spectrum on the Ph scale are ammonia and acid. A very rudimentary thought would be "where there is ammonia lets apply acid to make it neutral." This solution has not been thought out. It would take as much acid as ammonia to make an equal play and truly offset the ammonia. That would be extremely expensive not to mention dangerous.

Use such products lead to elevated acid levels that in turn create an even more corrosive poultry house environment. Acid products or products that convert into acid materials lead to groundwater contamination and are creating government restrictions how used litter is disposed of.

Litter Life is completely safe and is NOT CORROSIVE. Litter Life is made up of completely organic constituents and imposes no problem when contacted with skin or animals.

By implementing a complete poultry management system with Litter Life a farmer is extending the life of his equipment among other things and is improving his return on investment.