Hydrogen Peroxide for Meaties

[Mac in Wisco]

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There are plenty of growers that use chlorine.

http://www.ca.uky.edu/poultryprofit...anagement/Chapter15_Water_line_sanitation.pdf

 

[bigredfeather]

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There are plenty of growers that use chlorine.

http://www.ca.uky.edu/poultryprofit...anagement/Chapter15_Water_line_sanitation.pdf

I stand corrected. Well then.........there must be another benefit to using the peroxide besides sanitation, don't you agree? I had talked to someone that said it helped to bind up the iron and sulfer present in water. Think maybe that's the it?

 

[Neil Grassbaugh]

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Yes, milligrams per liter is the same as parts per million

Look at this way, 35% is 350,000 ppm out of the bottle. To get to 10 ppm you need to dilute it by 35,000. There are 768 teaspoons in a gallon so it would be 1 teaspoon to 45.5 gallons of water.

We use an inline medicator. It injects 1 oz of stock solution into every gallon of water used. We would have to mix 1/2 ounce of 35% peroxide into a gallon of water to create the stock solution and then inject that at a rate of 1 oz per gallon of water to get to 10 ppm.

Thanks for explaining this one before I felt compeled to!!!

If you ever have to replace a proportioner there are 500/1 devices out there that some like better for peroxide. Do you have a reaction tank for the dosed water?

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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The peroxide works over a wide temperature an pH range, but isn't very persistent. The chlorine is more persistent but temperature and pH greatly affects the contact time required for sanitization. Chlorine compounds can combine with organic materials in the water to create other compounds that are limited by the EPA for drinking water use.

Both, being oxidizers, will precipitate iron and manganese out of the water.

There's some differences there, but both are widely used water sanitizers.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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Look at this way, 35% is 350,000 ppm out of the bottle. To get to 10 ppm you need to dilute it by 35,000. There are 768 teaspoons in a gallon so it would be 1 teaspoon to 45.5 gallons of water.

We use an inline medicator. It injects 1 oz of stock solution into every gallon of water used. We would have to mix 1/2 ounce of 35% peroxide into a gallon of water to create the stock solution and then inject that at a rate of 1 oz per gallon of water to get to 10 ppm.

Thanks for explaining this one before I felt compeled to!!!

If you ever have to replace a proportioner there are 500/1 devices out there that some like better for peroxide. Do you have a reaction tank for the dosed water?

No, we pass it through a 5 micron filter to help catch sediment and precipitates and then it's straight on to the drinkers. I usually inject chlorine at around 10-12 ppm and it's down to less than 4 ppm at the drinkers as we have a high demand with iron and sulfur bacterias.

 

[bigredfeather]

Thank you both very much. I have learnt something today about this subject.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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That's neither here nor there. No flock lays perfectly uniform sized eggs. Flock egg size is generally a bell curve with the majority of the eggs falling in the middle. The more protein you feed them the larger the average egg size gets. We control the amount of protein rather carefully to keep the hens growing and the egg weights increasing ever so slightly throughout the year to try to maintain an average "Large" egg weight as long as possible. Right now, they are averaging towards the high end of Large, pushing X-Large, yet I'm sure I could scrounge up a dozen 1/4 lb eggs if somebody wanted them.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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No problem.