Air Quality and Livestock Farming – eBook PDF Air quality has a direct effect on the health, welfare, and production performance of livestock as the high quantities of noxious gases, dust, and airborne microorganisms are likely to lessen production efficiency and the overall welfare of farm animals. Long-term exposure to particulates in livestock buildings might also impact the respiratory health of farmworkers. Dust in animal buildings includes many biologically active substances like fungi, bacteria, endotoxins, and residues of antibiotics (as a result of veterinary treatments) that are believed to be hazardous to human health. Moreover, air pollutants emitted from livestock...
Air Quality and Livestock Farming – PDF
