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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