Minimum ventilation brings fresh air into the house and exhausts stale in-house air, while maintaining in-house air temperature. This poster gives best practice management recommendations for effective minimum ventilation of broilers in environmentally controlled housing. Read more
Ensuring that chicks have the correct environmental conditions during brooding is key to a good chick start. Temperature must be modified in relation to RH% to ensure chick comfort. One of the best ways to evaluate whether or not the correct temperature is being achieved is … Read more
This document presents advice for producers who aim to minimize antibiotic use in parent stock production and is based on the experience and expertise of those with practical knowledge of this situation. It is intended to provide information that allows parent stock to be gr… Read more
This document presents advice for producers who aim to minimize antibiotic use in broiler production and is based on the experience and expertise of those with practical knowledge of this situation. It is intended to provide information that allows good-quality broiler chick… Read more
In the absence of antibiotics, strategies that decrease the bacterial challenges in the hatchery need to be put in place and aseptic application of vaccines must occur. Decreasing the bacterial challenges can be achieved by following agreed and proven best practices on the g… Read more
This is an interactive PDF providing information in the form of a checklist that the farm manger can work through to identify broiler performance issues. As an interactive PDF, it can be used on any device which has a PDF reader installed (smart phone, Mac, PC, etc.). The do… Read more
The broiler house equipment and ventilation spreadsheet is designed to allow the user to enter their current house bird number and equipment set up in clearly highlighted cells. From the information entered, the spreadsheet calculates and compares actual stocking densities a… Read more
The breeder house equipment and ventilation spreadsheet is designed to allow the user to enter their current house bird number and equipment set up in clearly highlighted cells and can be used for either rearing or production housing. From the information entered, the spread… Read more
The broiler house equipment and ventilation spreadsheet is designed to allow the user to enter their current house bird number and equipment set up in clearly highlighted cells. From the information entered, the spreadsheet calculates and compares actual stocking densities a… Read more