Patent ID: 6860236

Claim:
A method for poultry farm to do business comprising the steps of: (A) placing clean litter on the floor of a poultry house; (B) raising a first plurality of birds in the poultry house, during which the birds defecate on the litter, thereby soiling the litter; (C) removing the first plurality of birds from the poultry house; (D) removing substantially all of the soiled litter from the poultry house; (E) processing the soiled litter on-site at the poultry farm by compressing the soiled litter and heating the soiled litter to at least a predetermined temperature; (F) placing the processed litter on the floor of at least one poultry house on the poultry farm at a time when the processed litter is still warmer than the at least one poultry house; and (G) introducing at least a second plurality of birds into the at least one poultry house no later than two days after the processed litter has been placed therein and thereafter raising the second plurality of birds in the at least one poultry house.