MASBATE POLYTHECNIC DEVELOPMENT COLLEGE INC.

BALENO, MASBATE

Sector: AGRI - FISHERY

Qualification Title: ANIMAL PRODUCTION (POULTRY – CHICKEN)
Unit of Competency: MAINTAIN POULTRY HOUSE
Module Title: Module 9.3 Maintaining farm area

Masbate Polytechnic and Development College, Inc.

Poblacion, Baleno, Masbate
 Information Sheet 1.1-2

Types and Uses of Farm Tools, Materials and Equipment

Learning Objectives:

After reading this INFORMATION SHEET, YOU MUST be able to:

1. Enumerate different kinds of farm equipment.

2. Classify farm equipment according to their functions and uses.
3. Identify farm equipment based on their functions.

Poultry Farming Equipment and their Uses

Poultry farming is very lucrative aspect of agriculture under livestock farming.

● Machinery and equipment can be used to help producers care for and
manage their livestock.
● Milking machines, automated feeding and watering systems, incubators,
egg candlers, tractors, computers, and many other types of machinery and
equipment can be used by the producer to improve efficiency and quality
of products.

Automated
Feeding System
 Incubator

Egg Candler

▪ Water Equipment

● Pan and jar type – this type of

waterer is circular in nature, having
two compartments.

Example: jar for filling water and

pan for delivering water

● Water basin made of

plastic/wood/GI with grill
– basins of different diameters are
available (10”, 12’, 14” and 16’
diameter).
A separate grill is available to
prevent the entry of birds inside the water.

● Bell type automatic waterer

 - These are made of high-impact plastic in a bell shape usually
suspended from separate pipeline for the purpose.
- These type of waters has
control over the water flow and
maintains the required water
level always.
- There will be a continuous flow of
water so as to ensure water
available for the birds
throughout the day.
- Height at which the water is
available can be easily
adjusted by simple clamp mechanisms and rate of flow water is
adjustable by a valve (spring-mounted). Plastic drinkers will be
brightly colored (red, blue) and hence are expected to attract
layers, especially chicks to water.
- No. of bell-drinkers = 1.3*
(circumference ÷ drinker space)

● Nipple drinker
- It can be used both in deep-
litter and in cage system.
- When used in deep-litter
system, it is attached with cup
under the nipple to prevent
wetting of litter material.
- These drinkers look like a nipple
and water drops comes out when
they are pressed.
- They can be used for all types and classes of birds, but most
commonly used in laying cages.
- One nipple drinkers in each cage housing 3 layers is
sufficient.

● Manual drinker
- In case of chicks during first
week of brooding, manual
drinkers are popularly used.
- They also referred as
“fountain drinkers” because
water comes out of the holes
like that in case of a
fountain.
- The main advantage of manual
drinkers is the ease of giving
vitamins and other
probiotics/medicines vaccines through water.
- Manual drinkers with stand mad of high-impact plastic in
bright colors (red or blue) are available.
 - Arrangement of drinkers at an equal distance of 0.6m between
any two feeders and feeder and a drinker.

▪ Feeding Equipment

Feeders are equipment used in feeding poultry birds. The food is deposited
in the feeder and the birds feed from it. The amount of feeders provided for
a poultry farm should be according to the amount of birds available. It is
important that you always keep the feeders clean to ensure the health
safety of the birds.

● Linear feeder
- Different sizes of linear
feeder with guards are
available.
- No. of linear feeders
= (2* length of the feeder)
÷ feeder space with all
measurements in cm.
POULTRY TOOLS

Hand Tool & Functions Illustration

Bolo is used for cutting tall

grasses and weeds and
chopping branches of trees.

Crowbar is used for digging big

holes and for digging out big
stones and stumps.

Pick-mattock is used for

digging canals, breaking hard
topsoil
Grab-hoe is used for breaking
hard topsoil and pulverizing
soil.

Spade is used for removing

trash or soil, digging canals or
ditches and mixing soil media.

Shovel is used in removing

trash, digging loose soil, moving
soil from one place to another
and for mixing soil media

Rake is used for cleaning the

ground and leveling the topsoil.

Spading fork is used for

loosening the soil, digging out
root crops and turning over the
materials in a compost heap.

Light hoe is used for loosening

and leveling soil and digging out
furrows for planting

Hand trowel is used for

loosening the soil around the
growing plants and putting
small amount of manure
fertilizer in the soil.

Hand cultivator is used for

cultivating the garden plot by
loosening the soil and removing
weeds around the plant.
Hand fork is used for inter row
cultivation.

Pruning shears is for cutting

branches of planting materials
and unnecessary branches of
plants.

Axe is for cutting bigger size

post

Knife is for cutting planting

materials and for performing
other operations in horticulture

Sprinklers – for watering

seedlings and young plants

Water pails – for hauling water,

manure and fertilizers
Sprayers are for spraying
insecticides, foliar fertilizers,
fungicides and herbicides

Wheel barrow is used for

hauling trash, manures,
fertilizers, planting materials
and other equipment

Sickle is a hand-held
agricultural tool with a
variously curved blade typically
used for cutting weeds
 Self – Check 1.1-2

Instruction: Complete the table below by giving the name and uses/functions
of the tools and equipment illustrated on the right side of the
table.

Hand Tool & Functions Illustration

 Answer Key 1.1-2

Hand Tool & Functions Illustration

Bolo is used for cutting tall
grasses and weeds and
chopping branches of trees.

Spade is used for removing

trash or soil, digging canals or
ditches and mixing soil media.

Shovel is used in removing

trash, digging loose soil, moving
soil from one place to another
and for mixing soil media

Rake is used for cleaning the

ground and leveling the topsoil.

Spading fork is used for

loosening the soil, digging out
root crops and turning over the
materials in a compost heap.

Feeders are equipment used in

feeding poultry birds. The food
is deposited in the feeder and
the birds feed from it.

Hand trowel is used for

loosening the soil around the
growing plants and putting
small amount of manure
fertilizer in the soil.
Knife is for cutting planting
materials and for performing
other operations in horticulture

Sprinklers – for watering

seedlings and young plants

Water pails – for hauling water,

manure and fertilizers