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
Poultry house guides
Ammonia, water, feed, ventilation and brooding: practical guides to monitoring a poultry house.
Guides
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
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
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
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
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 4 min read
Turn the guide into a reading on your phone
Tell us how many houses you run and what you want to watch. We will come back with the sensors each house needs and a quote.