Facilities: Unit for broilers on litter

  It is a prefabricated unit measuring 12 x 21.2 m.

  Day old chicks are grown in 24 pens, divided by 2 aisles of 1.5 m width, in 3 groups of 8 compartments each. Each pen is 2.35 x 3.00 m.

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  The building is well insulated and has computerized forced ventilation. In summer, a cooling system is being operated by means of nozzles. The thermostatically regulated heating system is double: by infrared heaters and hot air, both by propane gas. Artificial lighting is supplied with a timer to any photoperiod required, with an intensity of 5 lux.

  Total capacity is 2000 birds till marketing, at 40-45 days of age. The real bird density in the pens is 11.8 broilers/m2, with 83 birds per pen.

  Growing is done on a bedding of wood shavings. Each pen is equipped with 2 hoppers and 6 nipple drinkers.

  Each year 6 batches of broilers are grown, thus allowing a period of 2 weeks between crops, when the premises will be cleaned and disinfected.

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