PROJECT SPECIFICATIONS

HOUSING
The original Poultry Farm project includes the construction of 4 independent types of buildings:
The Brooder House, a Feed store, a culling House and 5 rearing Houses.
A brooder is a building or room, which has the following features it can conserve heat being
generated; i.e. it should not get cold quickly and can be sealed to keep out cold; will have adequate
ventilation; e.g., windows and ventilators which can be opened and closed when necessary; it is leak
proof; and the room allows for expansion as the chicks grow. The use of the brooder room will
prevent rodents, the contact with vermin. The specific measures for this building will be
405cm2/per bird up to six weeks (for the laying chickens).
Rearing Houses: (Five Houses)
The ideal Rearing Houses of the project will be built to half walls and the rest to eaves made of wire
netting. It is made of good roofing materials such as iron sheets to avoid leakage. They will be
constructed in such a way that we minimize wetting on the inside by rain when the wind blows. The
windward side will be the one where the short sides of the buildings face.
However, we can even fix there an extra overhang or some material like gunnysacks, which we can
draw down in case the rain is going to fall. Therefore, the above features form a Rearing House;
Roof; solid Walls made of block; Foot Bath at the entrance, and a Wire Netting system.
Culling House/Isolation Room
Only 1 Culling Room on the farm will be constructed on each Rearing House so that the birds are
not mixed from the five different houses. This is for disease control measure when some birds are
suspected to be unproductive, injured for pecking, and sometimes sick. The birds in the latter
conditions are kept in an isolation room/Unit or sickbay where they are closely watched and
treated, unless otherwise destroyed in case of a contagious disease.


FARM STRUCTURE AND EQUIPMENT
The farm structure and equipment of the project will include the following: nest boxes, feed
troughs, water troughs, chicken handling crates, chick crates brooding equipment (as brooding
shades) chick guards, de-beakers, rakes and others. This is part of the Project’s inputs. However,
some of those equipments are only applicable to Layers.

10 | P a g e

Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13