Building a chicken house is an investment that you want to get right the first time. Chicken housing is one of the most important components to consider before starting chicken farming. It is a long term investment thus should be prioritized.
A new chicken house should be built with years of service in mind. It is easy to forget the level of detail required in the design stage or the complexity of the infrastructure and engineering once the project has been completed and all that is seen is the house with a concrete floor. The highest standards must be maintained at all levels of livestock care to ensure a strong foundation for a lifetime of use.
Chicken houses should not be expensive. However, durability, comfort and safety should not be sacrificed at the expense of cost, it does not pay to buy or build a poorly designed house. An understanding of functional planning and design from an architectural and engineering perspective provides the knowledge needed to address the challenges of rural and urban chicken housing.
Having an appropriate and suitable chicken house design should be part of your farm growth strategy. Chicken are very sensitive to environmental conditions, such as heat stress. Therefore, they can’t survive in environments that a human can typically survive. An appropriate house design will help you escape uncertainties related to sudden deaths of your poultry or even low production due to stress from the environment.
When selecting an appropriate housing system for chicken, it is important to determine the needs of both the chickens and the people operating. A system that is labor efficient, reasonable in investment and easy to manage can be designed after considering the factors that affect the comfort, protection, efficiency and production of chickens.
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