6 Top Tips for Best Tunnel Cooling
This newsletter (PDF download) outlines the six key points, based on both research and field experience, that are the most important things a grower can do to help birds stay cool in extremely hot and...
View ArticleNighttime Cooling Pad Operation During Extremely Hot Weather
It is generally recommended that evaporative cooling pads should not be operated at night because the relative humidity of the air outside a poultry house tends to run 80% or higher at night. Operating...
View ArticleHot Circuit Breaker? A Fan is NOT the Solution
This month’s Poultry Housing Tip from the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Cooperative Extension discusses how using a circulation fan to cool a hot breaker does...
View ArticleBrooding for Performance
From “Brooding for Performance” (PDF download): Extra care should be taken that the chicks do not go hungry or thirsty and that the birds do not get cold during this critical period of life. If the...
View ArticleNPTC Poultry Farm Generator Service Tip
This is a short educational video outlining the top-three generator-service tips that can help keep standby generators running or help revive them during periods of extended generator runtime due to...
View ArticleGet Ready for Hot Weather Now
After last summer, we all know how bad hot weather can get. We can hope that this summer won’t be so bad – but it would be foolish not to do everything we can reasonably do to be ready for another...
View ArticlePTC Poultry House Lighting Tips – Energy Efficient Bulb Dimming
This video explains how to properly set your poultry house dimmers for Cold Cathode and Compact Fluorescent bulbs to insure bulb longevity and energy savings.
View ArticleTesting Poultry Houses for Tightness
Short video on how to test modern negative pressure ventilated poultry houses for voids in the building envelope.
View ArticleHurricane Isaac — Standby Generator Preparation
Standby Generators – PDF Download Hello All, As some of you in the poultry belt (especially East Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Alabama) prepare your homes and poultry farms for the effects...
View ArticleIs Poor Drinker Management Costing You Fuel Dollars?
We all want to figure out ways to save on heating fuel this winter, and one method we often see overlooked in the field is poor drinker management. Wetting floors as a result of poor drinker management...
View ArticleWill Your Standby Generator Stand Up?
By Jess Campbell, Dennis Brothers, Gene Simpson, and Jim Donald National Poultry Technology Center, Auburn University Most growers are confident in their generator’s ability to run for 30 minutes to an...
View ArticleAvoiding Snow Disaster
By Dennis Brothers, Jess Campbell, Jim Donald and Gene Simpson National Poultry Technology Center, Auburn University Since heavy snow is a seldom occurring event in the deep Southeast, the question of...
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Winter is coming! Get ready NOW…
By Dennis Brothers, Jess Campbell, Jeremiah Davis, Jim Donald and Gene Simpson, National Poultry Technology Center, Auburn University As the season starts to change and the cool fall air refreshes us...
View ArticleBrooding for Performance
From “Brooding for Performance” (PDF download): Extra care should be taken that the chicks do not go hungry or thirsty and that the birds do not get cold during this critical period of life. If the...
View ArticleEvaporative Cooling vs. Dry Floors: A Balancing Act
Hello All, Our latest Auburn NPTC Newsletter titled, Evaporative Cooling vs. Dry Floors: A Balancing Act, is attached for your use and distribution as necessary. Also, there are still seats available...
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