Controlling Water Temperature During Brooding
Published: September 1, 2022
Summary
Though there is a wide range of opinions on the optimal drinking water temperature for young chicks, the fact is farm managers actually have a very limited ability to control the temperature of the water their chicks are drinking because, for all practical purposes, it is determined by house air temperature. If the air temperature is 90°F, the water will be around 90°F. If the air tempera...
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1 de octubre de 2022
When building our first broiler house I gave much consideration as to how to provide cool drinking water for brooding chicks. All I could come up with was storing and transporting water underground and constantly flushing the lines with the return to source also underground. Plus insulating the lines. We came to the conclusion that it was not worth doing and that it is more important to regularly flush the lines (every 4 hours) to maintain palatability of the water. The addition of vitamin when flushing also improves palatability.
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