Ongoing studies to find ways of managing Salmonella Heidelberg loads in poultry litter have suggested that downtime is key to reducing the pathogen’s rates.
“We’ve been doing studies where we take litter from different downtimes, and we found that after 2 weeks of downtime, we see more than a 2-log reduction,” Ade Oladeinde, a research microbiologist with the USDA, told Poultry Health Today.
