Commercial Poultry Production and Hatchery Management

DIFFERENT TYPES OF POULTRY HOUSES

• Brooder/chick house
  • It is used to brood and rear egg-type chicks from 0 to 8 weeks of age.
• Grower house
  • It is used to grow egg-type birds from 9 to 18 weeks of age.
• Brooder cum grower house
  • Here, the birds are reared from 0 to 18 weeks of age (entire brooding and growing period of egg-type chicken).
• Layer house
  • In which birds over 18 weeks of age are reared, usually up to 72 weeks of age.
• Broiler house
  • In which broilers (meat-type birds) are reared up to 6 weeks of age.
• Breeder house
  • In which both male and female breeders are maintained at appropriate sex ratio.
• Environmentally controlled (EC) house
  • In which, entire environment is manipulated in such a way that is optimum for the birds growth.