Excrement-drying device

An excrement-drying installation for livestock barns such as poultry barns, comprising:

• an excrement transportation belt or a drying belt, respectively for conveying excrement along a conveying direction, wherein the excrement transportation belt extends across a conveying length and has an upper side for receiving the excrement;
• and
• a drying unit having at least one dispensing element which for drying the excrement has at least one air nozzle or a multiplicity of air nozzles for spraying air onto the excrement lying on the excrement transportation belt,
• wherein the upper side of the excrement transportation belt for receiving the excrement is divided into a plurality of excrement transportation belt portions which lie behind one another in the conveying direction, wherein each excrement transportation belt portion occupies a sub-area of a total upper side, and
• wherein the at least one dispensing element is disposed in such a manner that said dispensing element acts on an operative region which in terms of area corresponds to said sub-area
• wherein a length of said excrement transportation belt portion, when viewed in the conveying direction, is chosen in such a manner that in one complete revolution of the excrement transportation belt within 24 hours, at a dwell time of 1 to 6 hours, each excrement transportation belt portion comes to lie below the at least one dispensing element.