文档介绍：?2000 Poultry Science Association, Inc. SURVIVAL OF F ECAL COLIFORMS IN FRESH AND S TACKED B ROILER L ITTER P. G. HARTEL, 1W. I. SEGARS Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, 3111 Plant Sciences, University of ia, Athens, GA 30602-7272 Phone: (706) 542-0898 FAX: (706) 542-0914 e-mail: ******@ J. D. SUMMER, J. V. COLLINS, A. T. PHILLIPS Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of ia, Athens, GA 30602 E. WHITTLE 2 Cooperative Extension Service, University of ia, Athens, GA 30602 Primary Audience: Researchers, Poultry Growers, Regulatory Personnel S UMMARY Fecal coliforms are indicator bacteria that are used for determining water quality. Poultry growers may be implicated when fecal coliforms are found in surface waters following runoff events from broiler litter-amended pastures and hay?elds. This study determined the numbers of fecal coliforms in fresh and stacked broiler litter. In 1998, 10 of 20 fresh and all 19 stacked broiler litter samples from eight different ia counties contained less-than-detectable numbers of fecal coliforms ( <10 fecal coliforms per g of dry weight litter). In 1999, all 13 interior and 12 of 13 exterior samples of stacked litter from one South Carolina and two ia counties contained less-than-detectable numbers of fecal coliforms. Whenhigh numbers of fecal coliforms ( > 10,000,000 fecal coliforms per g of dry weight litter)