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  • From: Burke Farm <burkefarm AT gmail.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Poultry brooding
  • Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 03:05:17 -0400

Hi folks,

I know many of you raise poultry for market, like us.  We are considering upgrading our brooder, it is the limiting factor right now in our broiler batch size.  We use a 10 x 12 cement block building but can only brood about 125 broilers because the ventilation is not very good. So, we can either..
1) move the broilers to something else between 2 and 3.5 weeks, or 2) improve ventilation in our building ( not sure how, it is already hard enough to keep it warm enough in spring ) or 3) use something else entirely. 

Any ideas?  Our main reason for wanting to do a larger batch is so we can just do 1 batch per summer instead of 3. Outdoor temps in brooding season range from 25 to 105... Lows in the 40s are normal.

Lisa Burke
Farming engineers 
Central IN z5b


  • [Market-farming] Poultry brooding, Burke Farm, 06/01/2013

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