How to keep warm in winter chicken coop

In general, you can take the appropriate increase in feeding density, and closed doors and windows, hanging grass curtains, drinking warm water and fireplace heating and other ways to keep warm.

Chicken coop is a place where chickens roost, according to the feeding object, there are core chicken coop, breeder coop, brooder coop, brooder coop, egg coop, broiler coop, environmentally safe livestock and poultry house chicken coop. The traditional family chicken coop construction is simple, the late 1950s the emergence of factory chicken rearing facilities, not only has the environmental conditions suitable for the growth and development of chickens, should also meet the requirements of mechanization, scientific management and hygiene and epidemic prevention.

In industrially developed countries, some of the structure of the chicken coop using thin-walled steel, and the use of efficient thermal insulation of the roof and walls, with light weight, fast installation characteristics. China's chicken coops are still mainly mixed structure, mostly using brick walls, steel roof frame or reinforced concrete combined roof frame, machine flat tile or asbestos tile roofing.

Types of chicken coops:

Categorized by rearing objects are core chicken coops, breeder coops, brooder coops, brooder coops, egg coops, broiler coops and so on. The layout is closely related to the chicken rearing mode, usually divided into two kinds of flat rearing and cage rearing. Flat raising can be based on the need to separate the chicken, so that the chicken in the house on the ground or flat online activities, the house set up aisles, easy to operate and manage. Cage raising is the use of chicken cages to raise chickens, feeding density of about three times the flat raising, the configuration of the cage has a flat, half-steps, steps, mixed, stacked and high bed type variety.

Flat type is suitable for raising reserve chickens and laying hens, two adjacent rows of cages can be **** with a set of feeding, egg collection and drinking water equipment, the house is well ventilated, the cages of the microclimate conditions are consistent, in addition to manure is simple. However, the rearing density is low, and it is impossible to replace the work with human beings in case of power failure and machine breakdown. Semi-staircase and staircase are suitable for rearing laying hens, with good ventilation and sanitary conditions between cages, and easy to remove manure.