Housing and Equipment Systems

Objective: Describe the housing and equipment used in the beef, swine and poultry industry.

Beef Housing and Equipment

• Careful planning of facilities is important to success

– ___________ ________________

• ____________ is very important

– building requirement– fence and pen requirement

– ______________

Beef Housing and Equipment

• Wise planning

– makes __________________ easier

– saves ___________________

– ensures a safe working environment

– cost ____________

Beef Housing and Equipment

• Types of facilities:• __________-__________ facilities require the

simplest facilities

1. Confinement barns

• ___________- open on one side

• ____________- closed, insulated and temperature controlled. Most expensive to build

Beef Housing and Equipment

2. _________ feedlot

• no ___________• windbreak fences and sunshades

• limited __________________

3. Open barn and feedlot• open front barn and feedlot

• provides some ___________________ for animals

Beef Housing and Equipment

Open Barn and Feedlot, UC Davis Photo

Beef Housing and Equipment

4. Feeding _________ and __________

• Feeding _____________ are in the barn

• offers some protection for cattle

• protects _________ from being damages

by the _____________

Beef Housing and Equipment

Feedlot with a feeding barn

Beef Housing and Equipment

• ___________– Needed for all __________ of beef cattle

enterprises– Holding pen, working chute and headgate

• easier to ___________• reduces _________• saves ___________• reduces ___________• safer for the _______________ and cattle

Beef Housing and Equipment

Corral with a loading chute, working chute and squeeze chute

Swine Housing and Equipment

• Types of Housing:– _____________ or range

– ______________________ houses

• ____________- no heat, mainly for finishing operations

• ____________- heated, used for farrowing and young animals

Swine Housing and Equipment

• Most North Carolina swine farmers use _____________ confinement houses

• ___________________ is used to

control ________________,

______________________, odor and airborne diseases

Swine Housing and Equipment

• Location:– _____________________

– _____________ is the main problem

Swine Housing and Equipment

• Equipment:– ______________ feeding and __________________

• more ______________

• requires less _______________

– _____________ watering and feeding

• ___________ cost

• requires more _______________________

Swine Housing and Equipment

Equipment

– ___________________ enterprises require small equipment

• __________________ knives

• _________________ notchers

• _________________ clippers

Swine Housing and Equipment

Swine Housing and Equipment

Swine Equipment and Housing

Poultry Housing and Equipment

• Facilities– ____________________

– __________________ housing

• Confinement has become more ____________ because it reduces:

• land requirements• __________________• ___________________• protects from ________________

Poultry Housing and Equipment

• In recent, most poultry operation are confinement type houses with:

• ___________________ waters

• automatic ________________

• artificial __________________

• ______________________ ventilation

Poultry Housing and Equipment

• ________________:– ____ to ____ degrees F– Temperature taken ___________ off the floor– Temperature reduced _____ degrees per

__________– Temperature no lower than ______ degrees

F– __________ guards keep chicks from

wondering away

Poultry Housing and Equipment

• Broiler and turkey houses:– used for ____________ type animals– _____________ floors– covered with ____________

• wood ________________• newspaper• _________________

– lights are on _____________ per day

Poultry Housing and Equipment

• _____________ houses– Confinement with __________

____________• saves _____________• cleaner __________

– Artificial ______________• __________________ timer• __________ hours of light per day

Poultry Housing and Equipment

Poultry Housing and Equipment

Poultry Housing and Equipment

Poultry Housing and Equipment

Poultry Housing and Equipment

Poultry Housing and Equipment

Poultry Housing Bio-security

Poultry Housing and Equipment

Poultry Housing and Equipment

Poultry Housing and Equipment