A covering for the inside and outside of poultry houses giving a clean, hygienic and crisp finish. Artificial lights are required to compensate for the lack of natural light in darker, winter months.
Power-generated heating for the correct running of flock management including watering and normal usage of the entire floor space. Planned airflow system for the poultry house, helping flock obtain good quality of air aiding performance.
Nests, hoppers and drinkers — anything that would be provided to enable normal bird behaviour and facilitate performance. Perhaps a computerised automated house capable of housing , birds, with a control shed and all the motorised and programmable help possible.
Pictures of an automated, environmentally controlled poultry house are actually quite easy to find online. This is why I have included this next section a reference to www. I wrote this example budget calculation for a 1, bird pen. They are estimated to lay eggs in a year. They even lay some strained eggs, i. The meat-producing chicken is called broilers. These are very soft and tasty. These are used for cooking purposes. The commercial rate for this breed is very high. The average weights of all the breeds are 2 — 2.
They will be ready for the marketing within 8 weeks. The plan of poultry farm should be started on a small scale. We get an idea of getting more improvements and consequences on the existing system after a few days of establishment.
In the first stage of planning the environments where the farm is decided to be constructed should be good and population free and the management systems should be proper.
The estimation of the cost of materials and labours should also be calculated. The attitude of the local population should also be observed as some people refuse farm construction and rearing.
We should plan the waste disposable methods. The equipment required for the labours and spare parts also has to be procured. The economics are most important for the establishment and operations of the venture.
The most important capital investments are:. When you start the farm on small scale any special layout is not required as it involves the construction of the house. The temperature required for rearing birds in the poultry farm:. The direction of the farm is oriented to the east-west as this provides good light and heat to the farm. Each broiler requires one square foot of floor space.
The layers need two square feet of space on the floor. So the size of the farm depends on the number of birds reared. As per the land occupancy, the length of the farm can be of any extent. Depending on the number of birds reared it should be a comfortable space for the birds. The width should not be more than 22 — 25 ft in the tropical countries, so as to allow ventilation and aeration at the mid-portion of the farm. Hello, Am in Ghana looking to establish a dual poultry farm.
Would be very happy if you could send me any pdf on poultry cost and revenue. I have layer birds and I just bought them at point of lay , how many times must I feed them per day ie if you can give me the specific times , please help.
I am kindly requesting for your free PDF poultry farming eBook. Kindly send me the EBook the below link; gawngmagam gmail. Good day Pls I am planning on starting a poultry farm pls kindly help me with the e-book so that I can have some ideas about the process. Thank you. Hello Temi Cole, I want to start a poultry Broiler farm. Kindly send me the e-book so that I can have some ideas about the process. After filling out the form above, you will be directed to a page with the link to the poultry eBook.
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Speak soon. I want a copy of the ebook on poultry farming. This article focuses on the poultry pen house layout and designs, providing critical insights into what is necessary for setting up a poultry house. Their housing should be constructed in a way that the birds are not directly exposed to sunlight.
The movement of the sun is crucial in choosing how to construct the poultry house. The size of the poultry house is an important aspect of its layout and design. Typically, 1 square feet of floor space is required to raise a broiler.
A broiler requires twice the space the broiler needs for optimal development. Entrance into the poultry farm should be such that the door is opened outward. This is especially true for the deep litter system of poultry farming. This is a measure to limit or avoid accidents.
Birds might be mistakenly crushed when the door is opened inward. Also to be located at the entrance to the poultry house is a foot-bath.
Open side house II. From this, administrative block and feed mill unit should be kept away from sheds on farm. For which brooder and grower houses are preferably. Located at far end of site, away from administrative block and mill unit. In our country for major part of year, west is the upwind flow side. Temperature Zone 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Comfort zone Types of roof Lecture Housing and rearing systems, their advantages and disadvantages, space requirements for different age groups Total views , On Slideshare 0.
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