1. GROWING
BROILERS

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

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

4. objectives 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. Evolution of chicken houses
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. statistics 4 - 40/400 1985-86 80,000 chickens
250, chickens today
32/300 – 9,600 ft2, 10,000 4 # 12 – 14 weeks
40/ ,000
40/ ,000
43/500 – 27,000
66/600 – 40,000 ft2 50,000 6# 7-8 weeks
statistics

7. ventilation Tunnel fans --------- 54” Vent boards (bring in fresh air)
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. cooling 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. heating Propane / natural gas Attic vents Radiant brooder stoves
$60,000 to $30,000 / year propane (200,000 birds)
heating

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

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

12. Set up 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. Getting chickens 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. Daily Pick up dead and record numbers Water pressure Feed Air quality
Temperature
Comfort
Equipment repair
Daily

15. selling 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. preparation Decake Windrowing Litter saving
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.
Decake
removal of hard layer under feed and water lines
2” deep to remove crust off of top
Windrowing
Bring litter into windrows- kills bacteria/bugs 130 deg in 24 hours, turn and repeat
Litter saving
Chopped the litter up – not highly used now
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.

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
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. Reflection 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. ? To answer 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

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Cobb Vantress
Tyson
Georges
Knowledge of where food comes from
Reasons to learn