Chapter 1
Chapter 1
One plant used to process animal wastes or manure to produce biogas and sludge consisting of a biogas plant inlet/mixing tank, digester, gas chamber and outlet/sludge tank.
Two biogas plant where the digester and gas chamber form one unit.
Three digester and gas chamber form separate units.
Four plant with series of digesters.
Thirty-one settled portion or precipitate of the slurry; a mud-like, semi-solid mass.
Integrated plant.
Split type plant.
Multi digester.
Sludge.
Thirty-two residue that comes out at the outlet after the substrate is digested/processed inside the digester.
Effluent.
Thirty-three area with its physical facilities used for carabao fattening.
Feedlot.
Thirty-four Philippine water buffalo or swamp buffalo.
Carabao.
bull.
Thirty-five breeding male of any age.
Mechanical ventilation.
sixty-five ventilation of greenhouse which occurs through controlled openings due to natural pressure variations inside and outside the greenhouse.
Natural ventilation.
sixty-six materials that are placed around the brooder stoves to prevent the chicks from straying too far away from the heat supply until they learn the source of heat.
Brooder guard.
sixty-seven process of supplying heat to the chicks after hatching up to the time that their natural heat regulatory mechanisms becomes fully functional.
Brooding.
Ninety-seven average number of farrowings of one sow per year.
Litter index.
Questions.
Questions.
Ninety-eight number of days an animal stays in a pen.
Occupancy.
Ninety-nine any breeding female pig that has farrowed.
One hundred piglet that has been recently separated from its mother.
Weaner.
One hundred one any premise or yard used for the confinement of animals awaiting to be slaughtered which include unloading ramp, pens and detention pens.
Lairage.