My post today is on a broiler chicken farm known as a control shed.
First of all, let me explain to you what is a controlled shed?
There is a farm of controlled chickens where everything from food to water etc. is delivered to the chickens sitting in a control room. Even medicines and everything is delivered to the chickens automatically.
I took some pictures and made videos so that everyone could understand easily. Below you can see the first picture. And I will try to explain the whole thing with pictures. So let's get started and learn with photography.
This is the first image above of the scene inside the control shed. In which you can see the young broiler chicks who are just one day old. These chickens are packed in cardboard boxes and brought from a hosiery store. And the cans are brought in and the boxes are opened and they are partitioned inside the shed because the shed is too big and when the chicks are small they fit inside the partition. One of the reasons for keeping chickens inside the partition is to maintain the temperature of the partition area. They are very fragile souls so they can neither tolerate too much cold nor too much heat. Temperature inside is always kept normal. The control shed is usually 30,000 chickens, meaning it can hold up to 30,000 broiler chickens.
A meter is placed inside the shed to keep its inside temperature normal and there is a huge heater throughout which the heat is brought inside through the pipeline. Also there is a separate cooling arrangement for summer. The cooling system is as powerful as an air cooler. The control shed is 360 feet long and has eight fans on the front side which are quite large and cooling pads on the back of the control shed on which water keeps falling through the motor and the fans when the wind blows. The air passes through these cooling pads and cools the entire shed.
There is a separate room for food outside with a food supply motor. The food is transported inside by this motor and the food baskets are connected to the pipeline inside. The food falls through the pipeline into the baskets from which the chickens eat. From day one, they are fed twice a night and twice a day.
And for water, two large water tanks are placed on the roof of the shed through which the water enters the pipes inside the shed. And on a pipe there is a nipple at a distance of one foot. When a broiler hen bites on the nipple, water comes out to the chickens mouth. And when they have to give medicine, it is also given through water.
When the chicks are small, they are given food manuals and separate containers are kept for this purpose. Because the chickens' mouths could not reach the basket. And these little chicks are so cute and innocent to look at.
These chicks are ready in forty days to become a hen and then the work of selling them begins. In forty days it weighs one kilogram or more. It is sold in markets at hole sale rate.
When these chicks are one day old, on the first day thirty thousand chickens are given one hundred kilograms of food. Their food is full daily. According to one estimate, a hen that weighs as much as forty days later eats as much food as it weighs in forty days.
Let me finally show you a video inside the control shed.
