Checking the dimensions of the small poultry hall and its necessary equipment and estimating the cost is the first step to start this business.
The Dimensions of the Small Poultry Hall and Familiarization with the Necessary Equipment
To remove the mountain, you have to start with pebbles. Setting up an industrial poultry farm involves small and large costs that require a high initial capital.
Small businesses can be a more suitable option to start.
Today, we have reviewed the first options needed to start this work.
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Introduction
Setting up a small poultry farm is often started with the aim of raising native poultry such as native chicken, native turkey, etc.
Sometimes, a small poultry farm raises white meat chickens, and these poultry farms usually sell their chickens directly to the people of the same village.
It is often thought that a small poultry farm does not need to comply with standard breeding principles; But the fact is that even if you intend to start a ten-meter chicken farm, you must follow the necessary standards, otherwise you will definitely not get the best result and maximum profit from your breeding work.
This question may have occurred to you that the villagers breed and produce without complying with the standards, but it is precisely for this reason that they do not comply with the standards that the villagers sometimes have a herd of several hundred animals on it as They don’t open a job and their income is less than if they meet the standards.
Investigating the Main Cause of Profits and Losses of Poultry Farmers
One of the most important factors in determining the profitability or non-profitability of chicken breeding is the correct calculations of the equipment required for chicken breeding in the desired hall.
According to research and visits to industrial poultry houses, the reason for most poultry farms being unprofitable is their old systems.
- Of course, this is regardless of the current economic conditions.
Most of the laying hens still use the pulpit cage system, which is not economical in terms of space and labor costs.
- Another very few standard factors in the ventilation, heating and cooling system.
At the same time, an old poultry house can be unprofitable, and a standard hall can be profitable under the same conditions
How to Start a Small Chicken Farm?
To start a small poultry farm, you can prepare a breeding flock in 3 ways.
- Buying a one-day old chicken
- Buying a pullet
- Buying incubators and fertilized eggs and hatching from them
Usually, forming a flock through hatching from fertilized eggs has a higher profit margin.
Dimensions of a Small Poultry Hall
How much space is needed to set up a small chicken farm?
You do not have any restrictions for this.
The dimensions of a small meat or laying poultry house can be suitable from a 20-meter warehouse to a 100-200-meter shed.
Your income will vary depending on the space you have and the number of chickens you raise.
If you intend to raise chickens in your garden, this garden must be completely safe, that is, you must use a wall or fence to fence the garden.
Because there is a possibility of chickens escaping, it is also necessary to have a warm nest in the garden so that the chickens can go to the nest when they need to rest or lay eggs.
Poultry Hall Height
The height of the hall is more than 3 meters for hot areas and 2.4 meters for cold areas.
To study the suitable dimensions for industrial chicken farms, read the following article.
What is the necessary equipment for small breeding halls?
To set up a small poultry farm, it doesn’t matter if you raise chickens in a hall, a barn, or a garden, all these places must be equipped with equipment such as feeders, waterers, heaters, cooling systems, and ventilators. Of course, to raise chickens in the garden, you will also need a place like a barn because it will be absolutely necessary in the winter season.
The First and Most Important Poultry Equipment
Feeders
Each laying hen consumes 100 to 120 grams of grain per day, which should be given three times.
If you don’t have more than 10-15 chickens, you can feed them with your leftover daily food.
Just be careful not to give them fatty food because it will prevent them from laying eggs.
We need 7 cm of feeding space for each domestically bred adult chicken.
The edge of the feeder should be level with the chicken’s back
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Tips on feeding management
If your intention is to start a small poultry farm, you can earn a lot by selling live chickens.
Each live chicken costs about 0.7$. If you sell 50 broilers to the market every month, you will have an income of $35.
Drinkers
Normally, in the first days of breeding, sugary water troughs are used.
As the chicken gets older, the height of the waterers should also change.
For a small chicken farm, you can use bell waterers that can be adjusted in height.
But for industrial chicken farms, you need more mechanized waterers.
In the following article, we will introduce you to how to adjust the height of drinking fountains.
Adjusting the height of the drinking bowl
Cooling and Ventilation System
Buying these two devices will be mandatory when your breeding hall is more than 200 meters.
The use of evaporative coolers is in the hot season of the year.
Also, in addition to airing the indoor environment, the poultry fan will also help to cool the indoor area in the summer season.
Cooling is more important in laying hens and ventilation is more important in broilers.
The ventilators are installed at a distance of 50 cm from the floor.
If your breeding hall is about 10-15 meters, the presence of a medium fan will help to ventilate and cool the hall.
At temperatures above 35 degrees, the ventilation system without a cooling pad can make the hall hotter.
The application of evaporative cooling system is for temperatures above 28 degrees.
For better functioning of the ventilation system, it is suggested that the length of the hall should be 4 to 5 times the width.
Calculation of poultry ventilation
Heating System
On average, you will need 40 kcal of heating capacity per cubic meter.
For example, you will need a heater with a capacity of 9600 kilos for a poultry house with dimensions of 3x8x10.
How to calculate the number of heaters
Lighting Small Poultry Farm
Our suggestion is one 60-watt filament bulb or one 15-watt LED bulb for every 9 square meters.
List of poultry products and equipment
