Principles of Ventilation in Poultry Facilities

Ventilation in a poultry house supplies fresh air that is essential to sustain life. It also helps reduce the extremes of temperature, humidity and air contamination to tolerable limits. Providing proper ventilation to poultry houses and hatcheries is an art to increase productivity and decrease the incidences of respiratory diseases in the poultry houses. Mechanical air movement is required to properly ventilate a house in all extreme climatic conditions. Here, you will find a wealth of knoweldge about principles, types, stages and functions of ventilation, tunnel & transitional ventilation, ventilation requirements for broiler, layers as well as for hatchery and slaughteting plants.