Module 15

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Module 15

• Animal Housing

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Animal Housing

• Designed to provide
• animal comfort
• animal health sanitation
• automation labor saving, feeding, milking, egg
  collection, animal movement, waste removal
• Bedding conservation

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Animal Housing

• Housing Types
• Confined
• animal is constrained to one spot
• worker to animal
• Unconfined
• animal is constrained to an area
• animal comes to worker

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Buildings

• roof/walls/floor
• Modifies the environment
• lighting (intensity, length)
• temperature
• humidity
• air flow/turn over

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Lighting Influences

• Reproduction
• Short day breeders
• Long day breeders
• Egg Laying
• 14 hr/d .5 to .9 ft candles
• Milk Production
• Broiler Growth

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Temperature

• Hogs
• Baby pigs 80-90 F
• Weaned pigs 70-75
• Finishing pigs 60-70
• Sows 50-60
• Poultry
• Chicks 90-95 F
• ?5 each wk
• Layers 55-75 F
• Dairy Cow
• Lactating 35-75 F
• Temperature X wind Wind Chill Factor
• Temperature X humidity Heat Index

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Ventilation
VIP Removal of heat, H2O, odor Provide
Oxygen Dairy cow 3,000 BTU/hr 3,000 BTU x 300
cows x 24 hr 216 gal heating oil 100,000
BTU Dairy cow water vapor 2 gal/d 2 gal (300
cows) 600 gal H2O
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Dairy Industry
Time Motion Study 60 of time spent
behind cow 15 of time spent in front of cow
25 of time spent in other parts of housing
system Milking Design Tie stall Cows
face in or out Parlor type
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Milking Parlors
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Feeding Area
Golden Rule Dont mix animal vehicle
traffic Need 2 ft bunk space/cow 300
cows fence line ? 600 ft. feed bank ? 300
ft. Feed bunk side view 5'
wide Purpose of curb -cows stand to
bunk -allows feed mixer to be positioned
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