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Lecture 09 Poultry Housing

The document outlines the essentials of good housing for poultry, emphasizing comfort, protection, and convenience. It details various types of poultry houses, housing requirements, and different housing systems such as free-range, semi-intensive, and intensive systems, including cage and deep litter systems. Additionally, it provides specific floor space requirements for layers and broilers based on their age.

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Lecture 09 Poultry Housing

The document outlines the essentials of good housing for poultry, emphasizing comfort, protection, and convenience. It details various types of poultry houses, housing requirements, and different housing systems such as free-range, semi-intensive, and intensive systems, including cage and deep litter systems. Additionally, it provides specific floor space requirements for layers and broilers based on their age.

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Housing of Poultry

Course Title- Introductory Animal Science


Course Code- ANS 1201
BS Agriculture, Year-01, Sem.-02
DR. Jahangir Alam
Lecturer
Department of Animal Science
Faculty of Agriculture

EXIM Bank Agricultural University Bangladesh


Essentials of Good Housing

• Comfort
• Protection
• Convenience
Location of Poultry House

• Relation to other building


• Exposure
• Soil and drainage
• Shade and Protection
Different type of Poultry House

• Brooder / chick House - 0 to 8 weeks of age.


• Grower House - 9 to 18 weeks of age.
• Brooders cum grower House
• Layer House - up to 72 weeks of age.
Brooder House

Chick Guard
Canopy

Feeder
Waterer
Grower House
Layer House
Housing requirements

• Floor space
• Ventilation
• Temperature
• Dryness
• Light
• Sanitation
Floor Space
Ventilation
Temperature
Light
Why
16
Hours?
Egg Formation Process
Foot Bath
Housing Systems of Poultry

1.Free-range or extensive system


2.Semi-intensive system
3.Folding unit system
4.Intensive system
Housing System of Poultry
Intensive system

1. Cage system
2. Deep litter system
Cage system
Cage system
Advantages-
1. Greater number of birds is reared per unit of area
2. Facilitates correct maintenance of records
3. Helps in identifying poor producers and prompt culling
4. Control of vices of poultry (cannibalism and egg eating)
5. It helps in production of clean eggs
6. Easy control of parasitic disease
7. Prompt steps to control feed wastage.
Cage system
Disadvantages:
1. Difficulties in ensuring proper ventilation to
birds especially in summer season and under
very high densed conditions.
2. Incidence of leg problem, cage layer fatigue,
fatty liver syndrome, flies
Conventional Cages

N.B. Each cage should be used for 3-4 birds only


Cage System
Deep litter system
Litter Materials
Deep Litter System
Advantages:
1. It is economical
2. Built up litter supplies vitamin B12 and
Riboflavin to the birds
3. It increases the efficiency of production
4. Materials such as paddy husks saw dust, dried
leaf, chopped straw and groundnut kernels
depending upon the availability can be used as litter
materials.
Deep Litter System
Point should be noted….
1. The deep litter system should always kept dry.
2. Only right numbers of birds should be housed
3. The house should be well ventilated
4. The litter should be stirred at least once in a
5. Placing of water should be given due attention to
keep litter dry.
Floor space requirement for layers

Age (weeks) Deep litter (ft2) Cages (ft2)

0-8 0.60 0.20

9-18 1.25 0.30

18-72 1.50 0.50


Floor space requirement for broilers

Age Floor space/ bird

Up to 18 days 450 cm2 (0.5 sq.ft.)

From 19 days to 42 days 1000 cm2 (1.1 sq.ft.)

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