Analysis of a hybrid solar brooding facility
Bird density and ventilation rate treatments were studied while brooding chickens 25 days in a solar brooding facility. Bird performance and facility performance were monitored. Birds were grown to mature broilers in a conventional facility and compared to conventionally grown control birds based upon body weight, feed conversion rate and mortality. While several questions remain unanswered or inconclusive, several conclusions can be drawn. First, bird performance was decreased by the added stresses imposed by the ventilation and density treatments and by environmental differences within the facility. Second, the design of the house requiring the series air flow is inadequate as it now exists. Third, the solar facility along with the treatments saved heating and ventilating energy. Fourth, bird density appears more sensitive at current usage levels than ventilation rates, and further reductions of the latter may be possible with special brooding facilities.
- Research Organization:
- Clemson University, Clemson, SC
- OSTI ID:
- 5317008
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8306126-
- Journal Information:
- ASAE Tech. Pap.; (United States), Vol. 83-4033; Conference: American Society of Agricultural Engineers summer meeting, Bozeman, MT, USA, 26 Jun 1983
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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PERFORMANCE
VENTILATION
ANIMALS
BIRDS
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ENERGY SYSTEMS
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GAS FLOW
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INDUSTRY
SHELTERS
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140901* - Solar Thermal Utilization- Space Heating & Cooling