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Cool Pig Buildings.

How to Economically Cool Pig Buildings

Published: October 19, 2012
Summary
Introduction Growing pigs produce tremendous amounts of heat (Brown-Brandl, et al. 2004) and when raised in confinement facilities this heat must be removed by the barn's environmental control system (Brumm, 2012). Standard barn ventilation systems that use ambient or outside air to remove this heat has only limited capacity to control rising barn temperaturesduring warm and hot weather. For ...
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Authors:
Larry D. Jacobson
University of Minnesota
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Dave Van Zyl
16 de noviembre de 2016
Is there an sop that would explain step by step how to use and install sprinkler systems in a finishing barn and is there any hard data that shows the benefit of putting them in - thanks Dave
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