2024 Hot Weather Poultry House Management Workshop

The Workshop on "Hot Weather Poultry House Management", organized by the Department of Poultry Science at the University of Georgia, UGA, will be held April 9-11, 2024, at Flinchum's Phoenix, Athens, Georgia, USA.

The Workshop on “Hot Weather Poultry House Management”, organized by the Department of Poultry Science at the University of Georgia, UGA, will be held April 9-11, 2024, at Flinchum’s Phoenix, Athens, Georgia, USA.

This intensive training program has been specifically designed for those who want to learn more about poultry house environmental management during hot weather.

• The workshop consists of lectures as well as hands on group exercises designed to help attendees gain a firm understanding of the principles behind hot weather poultry house management.

Topics to be covered

• Poultry temperature regulation
• Determining poultry house air exchange rates
• Bird cooling methods
• Simplified tunnel ventilation system design
• Group exercise – Using Poultry411 Tunnel ventilation system design app
• Factors affecting air speed in tunnel houses
• Factors affecting air speed uniformity in tunnel houses
• Bird health issues during hot weather
• Tunnel ventilation and static pressure
• Tunnel fan selection
• Bird density Vs. Bird heat stress
• Variable speed tunnel fans
• Tunnel fan maintenance
• Static pressure/Fan selection – spreadsheet
• Evaporative cooling principles
• Group exercise – Using Poultry411 Pad cooling app
• Commonly asked questions about evaporative cooling
• Evaporative cooling system maintenance
• Basic tunnel house operation
• Evaluating tunnel ventilation system performance
• The importance of nighttime bird management during hot weather

Presenters