Title: Process for improving the health of animals

Abstract: A process which involves treating animal or poultry waste contained in a dropping pit or sedimentation tank of an animal or poultry confinement or holding pen with a sufficient amount of an acid to achieve and maintain the animal or poultry waste at a pH of about 4. Also, animal or poultry bedding material can be treated with acid (and after usage treated as above). The treatment eliminates the problems of the giving off of unhealthy gases and the growth of pathogens in the environment. The acid-treated waste material can be used as an animal feed or fertilizer ingredient.

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Inventors: Katzen, Sol (Hanasi #62, Herzliya Pituach, IL)

Application Number: 05/909189
Filing Date: 1978-05-24
Publication_date: 1983-01-18
Assignee: Katzen, Sol

Primary Class(es): 426/641 426/807, 426/644, 426/626
Other Classes: A01K1/01; A01K1/015; A23K1/10; A23K1/12; C05F3/00; A23K1/00; A23K1/00
US Patent Ref:

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3767416	October, 1973	Lee	426/636	PAUNCH MANURE TREATMENT PROCESS
3776188	December, 1973	Komakine	426/2	METHOD FOR INHIBITING THE FORMATION OF MALODORS FROM POULTRY FARMS
3875317	April, 1975	Ferguson	426/495	Waste conversion process
3950562	April, 1976	Senior	426/431	Process and apparatus for removing ash and inorganic compounds from cattle manure
3968254	July, 1976	Rhodes et al.	426/623	Method of preparing feed grain compositions
3971720	July, 1976	Swanson et al.	210/196	Method of and apparatus for processing cattle excrement
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4078094	March, 1978	Katzen	426/807	Process for producing an animal feed and fertilizer ingredient from animal manure
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Other Refs: GB12679ofGB558889

December, 1898
January, 1944

Other References: Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, McGraw Hill Book Co., 4th Edition, 1969, pp. 314, 315, 452 and 453.
Celofos, A New Process Bulletin, Granot, Tel Aviv, Israel, Nov. 1976.

Primary Examiner: Penland R. B.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Fisher, Christen & Sabol

Claims: