2025 Hot Weather Poultry House Management Workshop

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

Michael Czarick

Agricultural Engineer - UGA Poultry Science

2025 Hot Weather Poultry House Management Workshop
April 15 – 17
Flinchum’s Phoenix – Athens, Georgia

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
• Drinking water supplements
• 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

• Mr. Michael Czarick – UGA Poultry Science
• Dr. Brian Fairchild – UGA Poultry Science
• Mr. Jack Ellison – Eagan Manufacturing
• Mr. Isaac Singletary – Munters

Dates

The workshop will begin at 8:00 AM on April 15 and will conclude at 12:00 PM April 17th.