Housing and Equipment Systems

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Housing and Equipment Systems

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

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Beef Housing and Equipment

• Careful planning of facilities is important to
  success
• ___________ ________________
• ____________ is very important
• building requirement
• fence and pen requirement
• ______________

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Beef Housing and Equipment

• Wise planning
• makes __________________ easier
• saves ___________________
• ensures a safe working environment
• cost ____________

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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

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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

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Beef Housing and Equipment
Open Barn and Feedlot, UC Davis Photo
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Beef Housing and Equipment

• 4. Feeding _________ and __________
• Feeding _____________ are in the barn
• offers some protection for cattle
• protects _________ from being damages
• by the _____________

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Beef Housing and Equipment
Feedlot with a feeding barn
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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

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Beef Housing and Equipment
Corral with a loading chute, working chute and
squeeze chute
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Swine Housing and Equipment

• Types of Housing
• _____________ or range
• ______________________ houses
• ____________- no heat, mainly for finishing
  operations
• ____________- heated, used for farrowing and
  young animals

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Swine Housing and Equipment

• Most North Carolina swine farmers use
  _____________ confinement houses
• ___________________ is used to
• control ________________,
• ______________________, odor and airborne
  diseases

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Swine Housing and Equipment

• Location
• _____________________
• _____________ is the main problem

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Swine Housing and Equipment

• Equipment
• ______________ feeding and
• __________________
• more ______________
• requires less _______________
• _____________ watering and feeding
• ___________ cost
• requires more _______________________

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Swine Housing and Equipment

• Equipment
• ___________________ enterprises require small
  equipment
• __________________ knives
• _________________ notchers
• _________________ clippers

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Swine Housing and Equipment
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Swine Housing and Equipment
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Swine Equipment and Housing
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Poultry Housing and Equipment

• Facilities
• ____________________
• __________________ housing
• Confinement has become more ____________ because
  it reduces
• land requirements
• __________________
• ___________________
• protects from ________________

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Poultry Housing and Equipment

• In recent, most poultry operation are confinement
  type houses with
• ___________________ waters
• automatic ________________
• artificial __________________
• ______________________ ventilation

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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

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Poultry Housing and Equipment

• Broiler and turkey houses
• used for ____________ type animals
• _____________ floors
• covered with ____________
• wood ________________
• newspaper
• _________________
• lights are on _____________ per day

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Poultry Housing and Equipment

• _____________ houses
• Confinement with __________ ____________
• saves _____________
• cleaner __________
• Artificial ______________
• __________________ timer
• __________ hours of light per day

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Poultry Housing and Equipment
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Poultry Housing and Equipment
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Poultry Housing and Equipment
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Poultry Housing and Equipment
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Poultry Housing and Equipment
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Poultry Housing and Equipment
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Poultry Housing Bio-security
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Poultry Housing and Equipment
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Poultry Housing and Equipment
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Poultry Housing and Equipment