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Poultry house guides

Ammonia, water, feed, ventilation and brooding: practical guides to monitoring a poultry house.

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A farm manager in a dark jacket standing at the open door of a lit poultry house at night, holding a phone, with rows of birds visible inside

Poultry house alarms: what should wake you at night

How to design the alarms for a poultry house: which readings deserve a 3 a.m. call, where to set limits, who gets woken and how to keep the team answering.

Ventilation and alarms 6 min read

Worker walking the centre aisle of an open-sided broiler house with lowered yellow curtains, white broilers resting on the litter and palm trees outside

Broiler houses in hot climates: what to measure

Broilers in hot climates: open-sided or tunnel house, why air speed cools birds, when humidity stops panting from working, and what to measure at bird height.

Ventilation and alarms 7 min read

Worker walking the aisle of a caged layer house between tiers of brown hens, with eggs on the egg belts

Layer house management: temperature, light and water

What to watch in a laying hen house: temperature, the light program, water intake as the first warning and ammonia, and how each one reaches the lay curve.

Ventilation and alarms 7 min read

White broilers stretching up to drink from the nipples and red drip cups of a drinker line, with the rest of the flock behind them

A drop in water intake as an early warning sign

Broilers often drink less before they look sick or eat less. How to track water per house, what a drop can mean, and why to compare against the same flock.

Water and feed 5 min read

Day-old chicks on fresh shavings and paper under glowing gas brooders in a closed poultry house, with feed trays and drinker lines lowered to chick height

CO2 during brooding: warmth without stale air

Brooding closes the house to hold heat, and gas heaters add CO2 to it. How to keep chicks warm without letting CO2 build up, and what to measure.

Air quality 4 min read

A bulk feed truck with its boom raised over one of two galvanized feed silos at the end of a poultry house, the driver standing beside it at sunrise

Why feed silos run empty and how to see it coming

Why silos run out even on well-run farms, why bridging makes the level hard to judge, and how a radar sensor on the silo roof shows what is left.

Water and feed 5 min read

A poultry farmer in a work shirt and rubber boots walking down the aisle of a full broiler house on his daily check, seen from behind, with tunnel fans at the far end

Poultry house monitoring without a new controller

How to add sensors, history and phone alerts to a house that already has a climate controller, what an independent layer adds, and what to ask a vendor.

Choosing a system 5 min read

A farm worker in grey coveralls crouching at bird height among white broilers on wood-shaving litter, with feeder and drinker lines running down the house

Safe ammonia levels in a poultry house

What ammonia limit to work to, where to measure it, and why the night reading on minimum ventilation matters more than the one you take at the door.

Air quality 5 min read

The end wall of a tunnel-ventilated poultry house with six exhaust fans, five spinning and one standing still behind closed shutters

What happens when ventilation fails in a poultry house

A fan that is switched on is not always a fan that is running. How ventilation fails in a full house, and how current sensing and a cellular alarm catch it.

Ventilation and alarms 5 min read

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