Read this article carefully. It is a dream of every poultry farmer that his flocks go treble free, disease free, and and providing maximum profit. I am sure that this dream can be true to life. The question will be HOW ?.

It is SIMPLE, give them a good environment. The right thing can give you good results. Having the right environment for birds should not be taken lightly. Our goal is to maximize the utilization of feed's calories and minimize the amount of body energy spent on body maintenance, to achieve maximum production.

There are a lot of things to be monitored for a better environment in side the sheds of a poultry farm. We can monitor oxygen, carbon di oxide, carbon mono oxide, relative humidity, ammonia level, air temperature variations, air flow, wind speed, litter temperature, litter moisture and dust level in the sheds etc.

CAN WE CLOSELY MONITOR ALL THE ABOVE-MENTIONED FACTORS ? YES! WHY NOT?

But it will cost you a lot of fortune and off course an increase in production cost too. Keeping an eye on every factor is difficult, so you should go for the major ones. First of all take care of TEMPERATURE. There is a direct relationship between air temperature and performance, and there is also a direct relationship between litter temperature and performance. Temperature variation cause heat stress in birds. Just remember that it is the temperature at bird level that matters most. Secondly keep an eye on AMMONIA Ammonia can produce many serious problems for your flock. There is a direct relationship between ammonia exposure and performance of the broiler flocks.

Our target is to keep ammonia at 20 parts per million or less. A recent study said that ammonia at less than 25 PPM had little effect on seven-week flock's body weight. Ammonia at 50 PPM had as much as 10 percent effect on the seven-week flock's body weight and ammonia level as high as 200 PPM could effect body weight as much as 25 to 30 percent.
Keeping ammonia at it's minimum is a manager's task. Ventilation is a tool to control ammonia. The ammonia should be monitored at the BIRD'S BEAK LEVEL i.e. 2 inches off the litter for a baby chick Third: RELATIVE HUMIDITY As a rule of thumb you are doing a good job if you are keeping relative humidity between 45 percent and 75 percent. Relative humidity is related to litter moisture and to ammonia production. The lower the relative humidity, the lesser ammonia will be a problem. Fourth and final; AIR FLOW Airflow is our major tool for controlling temperature and relative humidity, along with ammonia.