The most important poultry equipment
Suppose you are the owner of a chicken farm and you keep and raise a thousand chickens in it. You drown in fantasies and see yourself in a position where the chickens are grown up and the time to sell them will coincide with your getting rich. You are happy in this fantasy that suddenly...! When you enter the poultry farm, you see the carcasses of chickens that were supposed to fill your pockets with money, but in a moment, all the threads became cotton. In a moment of negligence and not using proper poultry equipment, all your dreams were destroyed. Preparing the most important equipment for poultry farming is one of the important measures that, if not paid attention to, will cause a lot of damage.
Basically, the activity of breeding and producing poultry (especially the industrial production of broilers and egg-laying chickens) is not a simple and effortless activity and has its own details, principles and basic prerequisites and of course its own challenges. This issue is more true for setting up and starting a broiler or egg-laying chicken farm, so that all your steps and necessary equipment should be carefully selected in advance in order to prevent sometimes huge losses in the same. It should be taken at the beginning of the work and during employment.
It is in this direction that the introduction of the basic equipment needed to start and continue the activity of broiler and egg-laying chicken breeding is of special importance. This issue is more vital and more important when novices and beginners are the audience of the discussed topics.
effective factors in the selection of poultry equipment
Factors such as breed or strain, type of production and final product of the farm, dimensions and production capacity of the poultry farm, the extent of the farm activity (it can start from rearing the ancestors or mother flock to the production of chickens and up to packaging and supply to the final customer to include) and other cases in the scope of the required equipment and the amount of technology used in them to be effective. For example, in small poultry farms, manual and non-automatic equipment can meet most of the needs, but in large commercial farms and poultry production chains (huge and multinational companies or holdings in the poultry industry), complex equipment and a large number Workers with high or selected technical knowledge are required.
basic poultry equipment
Feeders
The feeding and feeding system for farmed poultry is a basic system that can be from silos or storage of raw materials and feed to mill, mixer and feed transfer system to include the hall and the canteens themselves. It is possible that a poultry farmer decides to produce feed using the inputs purchased in the poultry unit itself or buy ready feed (complete feed) from reliable collections and only use the feed transfer system to the hall and feeders in Use the hall.
Drinkers
It is clear to everyone that one of the primary and basic needs of farmed poultry includes easy access to fresh and clean water. It is recommended that there should be easy access to drinking water for indoor poultry, considering the creation of minimum wetness, and that indoor poultry can easily take the water they need from the drinker with their beaks. This matter is of great importance to maintain suitable conditions for the health and life of poultry in their rearing environment and especially their bedding. According to this issue, different types of drinking fountains and manual or automatic drinking systems are available.
Another important point is the health and safety of drinking water, which must be provided in drinking water systems. Today, things like the accumulation of microbial colonies in the channels of drinking systems are among the main concerns of poultry farmers; Also, ease of delivery of poultry medicines and drinking supplements through drinking systems can be another important advantage for these systems. For example, organic acids and some types of probiotics or prebiotics can be added to drinking water to improve the function and health of the digestive system.
Heating and cooling systems
As mentioned before in other articles, especially for one-day-old and young chickens, regardless of the type of breeding system they are kept in, the appropriate temperature in the environment should be maintained. Cultivation should be created before they enter the hall; Therefore, the heating system, especially in cold climates and cold seasons of the year, should be considered with a sufficient degree of confidence in its operation and creating a suitable temperature from the surface of the bed to the space above the poultry's head. This system complements a suitable building with proper ventilation and insulation conditions to create a uniform and controllable temperature in the hall with minimal energy consumption.
To achieve these goals, heating systems Different types can be used according to the budget and access to facilities and of course the most available energy sources in each region. For example, in Iran due to more access to fossil fuels and especially natural gas, heaters and gas heating systems and then other fossil fuels are considered more. Also, artificial mother devices and other local heating heaters can be used for young chicks who are unable to maintain their body temperature and do not benefit from their mother's heating support.
Thermometers
Creating heating-refrigeration or ventilation systems that perform their functions correctly requires the use of the facilities and methods of continuous measurement of the indoor environmental conditions. . Especially in the automatic and modern ventilation and temperature supply systems that have minimized the need for human supervision with the help of computer systems and artificial intelligence. There are a set of different sensors, including thermometers, hygrometers, harmful and useful gases in the environment, etc., which are vital for the proper and accurate operation of these systems.
< b> Timers and other sensors or gauges
Timers or timers also have their own use in poultry farming systems, the most significant of which are the setting of the lighting system and the setting of the ventilation systems. It comes back with a fan. In these systems, fan settings and air inlets can be in three main forms. In the transient and tunnel form, the basis for detecting the need to activate or deactivate the heating or ventilation system is the detection of temperature sensors or thermostats; But in a minimal form, the basis of the operation of the heating and ventilation system is based on the time set for them, which requires the presence and use of timers. Sensors or other environmental sensors can also be used in poultry breeding halls. be taken, which include things such as sensors for ammonia and carbon dioxide gases, etc.