Ventilation and cooling systems in the poultry sector are not only recommended, but they are even essential for the well-being and survival of the flock.

For proper air conditioning within poultry farms, it is essential to install ventilation, cooling and heating systems that ensure all the necessary requirements for animal welfare.

For chickens and hens, dispersing excess heat is a very difficult process. Due to their plumage, most of the excess temperature is expelled through breathing.

In this way, these animals spread large quantities of carbon dioxide and ammonia through their breathing.

Thus, it is clear that ventilation and cooling systems help maintain a correct temperature inside poultry environments and carry out frequent air changes, which are essential for optimal farm management.

Starting from the design phase of the poultry shed, many structural and environmental factors must be taken into account in order to properly start the breeding of birds.

 Normally the chickens reach the maximum productivity peak and a general situation of well-being when the temperature settles between 11 and 26 ° C. With the progressive increase of the heat in the environment and of the relative humidity beyond the thermoneutral zone of the bird, its heat dispersion capacity drastically decreases, undergoing the so-called “heat stress“.

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