Environmental Audit Report: Poultry Housing and Waste Management

This report presents an environmental audit of poultry housing, specifically focusing on Glenhead Farm in Scotland, aiming to expand its market share to the UK. The audit examines various aspects, including resource utilization (wind turbines, biomass boilers), pollutants (ammonia, dust), and waste management. The report highlights the importance of environmental audits for compliance, sustainability, and brand value. It details the farm's operations, materials, and environmental practices. The report also emphasizes the need for waste reduction strategies, such as utilizing poultry feathers and offal. Furthermore, it evaluates the farm's efforts to minimize environmental impact and achieve regulatory compliance, concluding with the significance of environmental audits for organizational growth and sustainability in the poultry industry. The report provides recommendations for pollution control, waste management, and resource optimization to improve the farm's environmental performance and facilitate its expansion into the UK market.

Poultry Housing and
Environment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
1. Introduction.............................................................................................................................1
2. Resources................................................................................................................................2
3. Pollutants.................................................................................................................................3
4. Waste.......................................................................................................................................4
5. Evaluation...............................................................................................................................5
6. Conclusion ...........................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Environmental audit is also regraded as important management tool for every form of
business in order to maintain the brand value among customer and competitors. However, it is
defined as a process or activity that encompasses a systematic, organised, documented, periodic
and objective evaluation to determine how well an organisation perform its managerial and
operation function. With the help of such action within establishment, it enable them to comply
with all sort of market standard with an intent of coping up with internal and external macro
factors. Poultry production is analysed as a leading role in the agricultural industry across the
globe in recent years (Ajayi and et.al., 2015). In regard of this report, Glenhead Farm has been
considered which is one of the well established poultry housing in Scotland. Along with this,
Glenhead Farm desire to expand their market share to UK marketplace for which they are
require to go through the procedure of environment audit. The aspect of environmental audit in
poultry housing farm contains an essential component as it empower them to protect the
environment and also to enhance the potentiality to sustain within competing industry. In this
study, it involves various phases like resources, pollutants, wastage of product related to acquire
environmental audit, Moreover, evaluating the collected content and concluding the whole report
in terms of accomplishing organisational goal or objective in an efficacious and prompt manner.
1. Introduction
Over the past decades, the poultry sector's growth and trends towards intensification and
concentration have given rise to a number of environmental concern. Poultry housing design
plays a significant role in the determination of internal climatic condition of the house for
optimum health, growth and productive performance of the birds. For attaining the sustainable
profitability ratio, the implication of environmental audit within company is viewed as an
integral determinant (Dawood and Büscher, 2014). This is because, EA report render the all
necessary or required details which states that how well the management systems are performing
to keep and manage their place with sustainable level of development. In relation to Glenhead
Farm, it is a Scotland based poultry farm who takes an initiative to explore its market division to
UK industry. As per the analysis, UK market contains a organised procedure for new poultry
housing in regard of establishing the firm. In this, the primal activity which UK regulation
focuses is that acquiring environmental audit form. This form includes an application form of

PPC that give appropriate direction to firm for enriching the sales performance within prescribed
time duration. The Glenhead Farm is owns and governed by James Baxter. They have a group of
8-10 manpower who are highly skilled and capable to handle poultry production in an innovative
or productive style (Broucek, 2018). Along with this, it is established in the land area of 64 Ha in
which external shade shelter has been built in 8m2 and four shelters per hectare and each of these
shelter has a capacity to maintain 1000 birds. Moreover, Glenhead Farm contain 8 poultry houses
and each of them has a facility to keep 16.000 birds in a safe and clean environment.
Additionally, the materials that Glenhead Farm utilised for constructing its building are dwarf
double skim walls with 200mm insulation, concrete flooring, steel frame. The stocking density of
farm is up-to 9 bird per m2 whose pullets age is 16 weeks and for flock depletion requires 76
weeks as it depends upon the flock performance. Glenhead Farm acquires most of its materials
for rendering energy and water is from Scottish Power and Water respectively. The equipments
which Glenhead Farm make use for energy production are wind turbine, biomass boilers,
fluidised bed gasification CHP that empower them to maintain a proper balance between
demand and supply of eggs in an improved mode.
2. Resources
The aspects of resources is regarded as one of the efficacious elements in every
organisation as it enable them to reach its purpose in an amended way. In relation to Glenhead
Farm, its staff members and management make an effort to utilise the available resources at
optimal level in order to obtain maximisation of profit in a stipulated time duration. In recent
study, it has been evaluated that Glenhead's poultry hens are not only render thousands of eggs
but also generate heat and power for the farm. With the help of this heat, farm biomass boiler
burns its manure in a better manner (DeLaune and Moore, 2014). They receive major portion of
their resources from Scottish Power. The materials or equipments which company utilise for its
energy production are wind turbine that works for 225Wh/day and produce a good portion of
heat and electricity. In terms of heat, Glenhead utilises 92% of wind turbine energy for the the
purpose of heating and 8% for electricity generation. The another tool which company uses is
biomass boilers that process for 2* 200 Wh/day and Fluidised bed gasification CHP that work
for 750k Wh/day and give heat and 250k Wh/day form electricity. The overall amount which
Glenhead incur for maintain its overall production is £1.5 million. Among all these resources,
biomass technology is so helpful and effective for Glenhead Farm's hens as it making them more

potential to render both eggs and heat as well as power. In addition to this, Glenhead Farm house
has more than 128,000 free range hens which is situated in remote location of Scotland.
Moreover, it uses chicken manure which get fires in a bed biomass boiler and generate optimal
level of heat and power. Hence, it has been identified that Glenhead is an poultry farm who
always make an attempt to adopt every form of innovative technology that help them to enlarge
their overall productivity and profitability in UK marketplace. Henceforth, by their huge
contribution and effort, it drive them to acquire PPC permit application form from UK
environmental audit.
In addition to this, an innovative technology which enable Glenhead Farm to minimise its
resources and also can decease the unwanted expenses from firm is Organic Organic Rankine
Cycle system, powered by Novec Engineered Fluids from 3M. Moreover, installation of 400kW
biomass boilers help Glenhead Farm to qualify the renewable heat incentive scheme and also can
improve the atmosphere for birds as well as 225kW wind turbine to render enough amount of
heat and electricity. Due to which, Glenhead Farm can reduce inefficiency from operational
division and can encourage continual improvement in a stipulated time period (EWEMOJE,
ABIMBOLA cand OMOTOSHO, 2018).
3. Pollutants
In UK, environmental audit consist of application form i.e. PPC permit application form
which demonstrate how an organisation can achieve their desired objective without harming
environment habitats. In relation to Glenhead Farm, chickens and its waste inside poultry house
create various forms of air pollution that involves ammonia, carbon dioxide, methane, hydrogen
sulphide and nitrous oxide gas as well as dust. Additionally, the level of microbial contamination
is regarded as one of the primal sanitary and hygienic indicators in poultry farm. However,
chicken farming devastating the consequences over water quality, contribution to global climate
change and harms natural habitat in an extreme level (Fahmy, Farghally and Ahmed, 2014).
Additionally, heat stress is viewed as a general problem in the poultry industry especially in the
production of egg. The problem of heat stress can be advance compound in a hot environment
when the humidity rises. Furthermore, runoff from farm carry contaminants such as toxic gas
chemicals from pesticides as well as pathogens and diseases from animal waste. Therefore, the
measure which Glenhead Farm can adopt to reduce the degree of pollution and also can acquire
best position in UK marketplace in an improved or amended way are mentioned below:

Cleaning up the spillages on regular basis and avoid utilising fine grinding of feed,
protein content that help Glenhead Farm to decrease the odour of bad smell and it as them to
enhance its market share or size in an improved way.
For controlling and managing the humidity and level of temperature within poultry farm
by emptying the manure belt on a frequent basis i.e. once or twice weekly and locate manure
storage from sensitive receptors. With the implication of such activity, it enable Glenhead to
prevail wind direction, maintain bird heath and can render sufficient litter to deterrent nitrogen
as well as prevent ammonia (Herron, 2015).
Henceforth, there are many more different ways to protect the environment from getting
pollution like ventilation, monitoring, dusting, destocking and so on. Due to which, proper
allocation of resources and handle the same in a proper level aid Glenhead to receive PPC permit
application without any complexities and can attain sustainable growth or development in an
impressive mode.
4. Waste
Like other industry, poultry division is also regarded as one of the fastest growing
segment in agricultural sector of UK. Along with this, it has been analysed that poultry industry
is produce large amount of solid waste. In addition to this, poultry waste are posing serious
environmental pollution issues such as offensive odours, promotion of fly and rodent breeding.
As poultry market, expanding its market share or productivity it also enhancing the challenges to
them in managing the waste in an efficacious and economical mode. IN regard of Glenhead
Farm, the waste which it incur from its production are excreta, beeding material, waste feed,
dead birds, broken eggs, feathers and offal could impose extreme level of environmental
pollutants. Hence, there is an need for Glenhead Farm to control and manage its entire
production process from overproduction and wastage. This is because, it assist establishment to
place its brand in UK market in an aggressive or competitive position and also to capture the
wide range of population towards the brand (Oliveira, Alves and Gomez, 2014). Thus, optimal
utilisation of resources empower Glenhead to reduce the wastage of its product and also to
maintain its continuous improvement . Some of the essential steps which Glenhead Farm can
utilise is that:

Poultry feathers can be use as a rich source of keratin proteins and amino acid that can be
transformed into valuable products like feather meal, bio diesel, biodegradable plastic and
fertilizer.
Poultry offal is identified as huge amount of nutrients which can be used as a dried
poultry manure and fertilizer as well as raw material for methane production.
By properly utilising the poultry manure is also use as a fertilizer, methane and to
generate electricity and power.
Therefore, these activity enable Glenhead Farm to enrich its sales performance in UK
marketplace among competitors that drive to receive PPC permit application form from UK
environment audit. It improve its productivity and profit margin ratio in competing industry in
desired time duration.
5. Evaluation
From the preceding discussed report, it has been evaluated that obtaining or acquiring
environmental audit from government plays a vital in the enhancement or enlargement of brand
image within prescribed time limit (Powers and Capelari, 2017). It helps in pollution control,
enrich production safety and health conservation of natural habitat. Along with this, it also
motive Glenhead Farm to take appropriate measure for waste reduction or prevention, assessing
compliance with regulatory requirements as well as drive them to place environmental
information among public in an impressive and productive style. By proper management of
resources and equipments help organisation to go through all legal procedure of any particular
geographical region without any hindrance and can attain sustainable growth and developments
among competitors.
6. Conclusion
It has been signified from the above report, environmental audit is one of the important
aspect whose main intent is to control the pollution and also to protect the production safety as
well as to reduce the chemical waste. Along with this, it lead an organisation to take corrective
course of action in order to cope up with all sort of emerging and current challenges or threat in
an innovative style. Moreover, it also help them to enhance the volume of sales as well as to
acquire impressive brand value in a stipulated time duration among competitors.

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