By Marvin Brubacher Cumberland District Manager
Proper ventilation is well recognized as one of the most important aspects of poultry production in promoting bird health. A main contributor to high bird stress and low bird weight is an overheated or...
Taking the time now to clean and adjust your cool cell system will save time later and improve the system’s performance during the season.
1) Remove the top pad retainers.
2) Remove the pads and prop them against the building. Using...
This publication focuses on important aspects of evaluating and troubleshooting farm animal housing environment and ventilation system performance.
Hand-held instruments are used to document conditions and performance of environment in animal facilities
Good air quality leads to healthy animals and...
Ventilation fans are no different than any other piece of equipment on the farm...they perform better with annual maintenance. Doing that maintenance now means you will not be doing it in the summer heat.
Dirty fan shutters can reduce...
Automated ceiling inlets offer a time-saving alternative to gravity inlets.
While the fans are our ventilation system’s visible, noisy engines, the air inlets play a larger role during cooler weather. Before reaching the animal level, incoming air should enter at...
With the return of spring weather, proper maintenance of an evaporative cooling system is essential for providing an optimal poultry house environment. Jamie Walker, district manager for Cumberland, recommends the following steps to help protect birds from heat stress...
IRIS Fillet Inspection secures food quality
Today, good food quality is on every consumer’s mind. Everybody wants to know exactly what’s on their plate and that it is of high quality. As the global leader in food processing solutions, Marel...
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Uninterrupted electrical energy is critical to optimising incubation and other hatchery processes.
Protecting supply
Should power from the grid be interrupted or fail, a back-up generator with Automatic Voltage Regulator and auto switch-over will protect normal hatchery operations.
Generators typically...
Analysis of the economic contribution of a single 25,000-square-foot (50-by-500-foot) broiler house.
A new 25,000-square-foot (50-by-500-foot) broiler house in Mississippi results in an increase in economic activity in the state, in terms of both the construction of the house and...
Barn fires are horrific events, threatening both human and hen life and causing significant financial damage. Though the incidence of layer barn fires does not appear to be higher than those in other animal agriculture operations, they account for 94%...