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GROWING BROILERS

GROWING BROILERS. Which has more square footage? Football field Modern day broiler house Which is longer? Football field Modern day broiler house. Chicken map. HATCHERY. BROILERS. CORNISH. LAYERS. 8 WEEKS. EGGS. 4 WEEKS. PROCESSING.

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GROWING BROILERS

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  1. GROWING BROILERS

  2. Which has more square footage? Football field Modern day broiler house Which is longer? Football field Modern day broiler house

  3. Chicken map HATCHERY BROILERS CORNISH LAYERS 8 WEEKS EGGS 4 WEEKS PROCESSING

  4. List the steps to raising broilers with 85% accuracy. • Accurately describe a method of heating with 100 % accuracy. • Accurately describe a method of cooling with 100% accuracy. • Describe a ventilation method orally with 90% accuracy. objectives

  5. Hand water/feed • chain feeder • windows • Side/end curtains, houses ran N to S • Curtain machines connected to thermostat • Manual wenches • Breaker boxes Evolution of chicken houses

  6. 4 - 40/400 1985-86 • 80,000 chickens • 250,000 ++ chickens today • 32/300 – 9,600 ft2, 10,000 4 # 12 – 14 weeks • 40/300 -15,000 • 40/400 - 20,000 • 43/500 – 27,000 • 66/600 – 40,000 ft2 50,000 6# 7-8 weeks statistics

  7. Tunnel fans --------- 54” • Remove ammonia • Vent boards(bring in fresh air) • Stir fans – no vents on, stagnant air • Attic vents • Blow heat down in winter, fresh air trapped in attic ventilation

  8. Power mode (vent boards) • Tunnel mode ( tunnel fans) with or w/out cool cells • Size of bird, outside conditions • Cool cells- swamp coolers (radiator)85 deg. • Foggers – misters 100 deg + cooling

  9. Propane / natural gas • Attic vents • Radiant brooder stoves • $60,000 to $30,000 / year propane (200,000 birds) heating

  10. LED $40 each- $5000 / house • Min 3 years • Use less energy • Money saved on energy cost will pay for the bulbs lighting

  11. Feeder trays/lids • Chick mate • 7-10 days • Feed pans • 14” apart • Augers Feeding

  12. Shavings/rice hulls • Paper under feeder lids • Feeder lids • Up to temp 24 hours before chicks, to heat floor and equip • Lower water, feed lines, stoves • Ventilation and light programs • Migration panels/tubes Set up

  13. Chickens are hatched the day of • Brought in on climate controlled truck • Used to be school busses • Brought into houses on forklift on a pallet • 120 trays on a pallet, 12,000 birds • pallet pulled back as trays are dumped • 12,500 birds per section Getting chickens

  14. Pick up dead and record numbers • Water pressure • Feed • Air quality • Temperature • Comfort • Equipment repair Daily

  15. Catch crew • 5,000 / truck • 50,000 birds in 8 hours • Growers must raise feed, water, and stoves to be out of the way selling

  16. Decake • 2” deep • Windrowing • 103 deg in 24 hours • Litter saving • Top-dress with shavings or rice hulls • Clean out can be contracted out where everything is cleaned out and new shavings or rice hulls are hauled in • Litter is hauled out of state to row crop farmers- mainly due to high regulations to be spread here. preparation

  17. Amount of feed compared to the average weight of chicken determines performance • 4# 1.75/lb of body weight • 6.5# 1.9 Feed conversion

  18. There are no steroids/hormones in the chicken feed. Restrictions do not allow anything to be put into the feed, the growers will have to sign a contract abiding by this rule. Myths

  19. What new technology is used in modern chicken houses • How many chickens can a single person raise with todays technology. • What job opportunities are there with a broiler operation. Reflection

  20. Why is chicken important to agriculture. • What new technology is used in modern chicken houses • How many chickens can a single person raise with todays technology. • What job opportunities are there with a broiler operation. ? To answer

  21. Job opportunities in nwarkansas • Simmons • Cobb Vantress • Tyson • Georges • Knowledge of where food comes from Reasons to learn

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