DANVEER SINGH YADAV

Assistant Professor
Livestock Production Management
College of Veterinary Science & A. H. (NDVSU), MHOW
 Poultry house are deigned to protect birds from

 Extreme weather

 Parasite

 Predator

 Thieves
Factors/ housing requirements

1. Temperature

 Birds are warm blooded

 Comfortable zone (10 – 20 C)

2. Ventilation

 To provide sufficient O2

 To remove NH3, CO, CH4

 To keep the temperature

 To Remove undesirable gases

3. Humidity

 High humidity is harmful to birds

 Low humidity in dry, dusty litter and may lead to

respiratory problem

 Rang of humidity is 40-60%

4. Feeder, water, floor space

 Age

 Size

 Type of breed to be maintain

5. Orientation of house

 East – West

 Rectangular house

 Maximum gain of solar energy in winter and

minimum in summer
5. Light

 Day old chick should be provided 23 hours

 Layer it should be 16 hours

 Breeder male it should be 10 hours

1. Free range

 No shortage of land

 Seeds, insects, herbages

 Protected from predatory

 Protected from infection diseases

 Stock density of birds is 250/hectare

2. Folding unit system

 Portable folding units of birds

 Position change in each day

3. Semi – intensive system

 Free space available is limited but it is necessary to

allow the birds 20 – 30 square yards/birds of out side

run

 The greatest danger is from ground immediately

around houses called “Foul-patch”

 750 birds/ hectare

4. Intensive system

 Birds are totally confined to houses which bedding

material on floor or on wire netting in cage.

 Modern commercial poultry production

A. Deep litter system

 Rearing birds on floor spread which litter materials

 To rear broilers and breeders

 Floor space/ bird is 2-3 times more than cage

rearing

 Eggs are dirty, soiled and breakage

 Deep litter management
 Depth of litter 6-10 inches

 Remove wet and caked litter by replacing which

fresh litter

 Adopt daily raking of litter

 Check leakage and spoilage of water from waterers

 Dress the litter which hydrated lime water powder/

5% ammonium sulphate/gammexene which dose of

1 kg/3m2 at least 1 months

 Reduce depth of litter 5 inches summer and increase

in winter to control heat production in it by bacterial

decomposition
 Advantage of deep – litter
1. Build-up litter supplies animal protein factor and

Vit-B12 and also natural thrust of birds

2. It avoid cage fatigue problem

3. The egg are safe

4. Labour saving

5. Litter value is 3 time more than cattle manure

6. Safe guard birds against extreme weathers

 B. Cage system
 Rearing the birds on wire floor in wire netting

compartment

 Commercially egg production

 Advantage of cage system
 Clean eggs

 Breakage is reduce

 Day to day management are easy

 Feed consumption is less/birds

 Saving of floor space/birds

 (i) Battery cages
 The compartment of cages are arranged one above other

in 3 – 4 tiers on stands and dropping tray is kept

underneath of each tier.

 3 time less space, floor, house requirement than deep-

litter system.

 Dropping tray are to cleaned daily or on alternate days

 (ii) Californian cages
 This is most popular system

 The compartment of cages are arranged stepwise on

both sides of cage row in 2 – 3 tiers on stands in flat

formed house. Become of this design droppings from all

compartments fall on ground in ditch or pit under cages.

 The system houses about twice the number of birds than

deep-litter
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