Sunday 28 June 2015

Advantages Of Installing Poultry Fountain

By Ruthie Calderon


Having chicken at your backyard can be a very good idea to economically utilize your free space, but the cleaning and refilling of chicken bowls can be a tiresome job. Especially during summer times when the chicken need more water it can be a hard work to do. This is the reason why one should consider poultry fountain, they are easy to use and install, they always give clean water and finally they did not need any maintenance.

All types of chickens require housing that will shield them from the adverse weather conditions such as rain and wind in order for them to survive. A chicken fountain will provides effective control for spread of diseases and also enables the handler to feed the pullets in a controlled manner. Poultry foundation should be well built and provide enough space for the chicken.

Since the system has internal valves, they hold water and they are not well drained and stored in freezing conditions they result to malfunctioning of your system. The other solution is replacing these valves regularly. Leaving your system unattended during winter periods can damage it by causing it to crack.

Some of the benefits associated with this system include, considered easy to buy, are common and of low maintenance expenses. Extremely cold temperature makes them useless but do not destroy them. Freezing conditions make these systems to split.

The constant refilling found in the tradition methods of chicken watering does not exist here, the system stainless steel which never rusts, corrode or clog. It allows water when needed, it can allow water on drop by drop basis or a stream flow.

Many systems come in galvanized metal or plastic forms. Plastic are considered affordable since they are cheap but they break so easily and do not last long. Metal systems are very expensive but they have a long life span. This type is cheap making it common, and is suitable for small scale people.

There are different types of hen houses. A pullet house is where chicks from zero to eight weeks of age are reared. Grower house is used to rear birds up to eighteen weeks of age. Other types comprise, brooders house, layer house, breeder house and environmentally controlled house. All this different types of structures need different types of spray or water supply system.

Small sized hen farms do not require special layouts for the poultry houses since they usually have only one hen house on a farm. However, large and medium poultry farms must consider having specific layouts on their farms.

Chicken houses are of different types. They are such as breeder houses, grower houses, layer house, brooder house each of which are used to rear the chicken in different stages of growth. Environmentally controlled houses are constructed to facilitate the manipulation of the in house environmental conditions.

The loads applied on the structure are eventually transmitted to the ground through the establishment of the poultry house. In choosing the type of establishment to put up one must consider the magnitude of the loads that will be applied on the structure. The soil should be well drained, free of organic matter and must have uniform bearing capacity. It should be compacted and must be able to withstand the stresses applied by the equipment and the structure itself with minimal compression.




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