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New Newsletter #75 -"Choosing Sidewall Insulation " - Download Newsletter Here
 How important can sidewall insulation be? Wall insulation directly affects fuel usage. If you get it wrong to begin with, it will affect the cost of operating the house for the life of the house. There are about 8,000 square feet in a 40x500 ft poultry house; which is a lot of area to lose heat through. The goal is to choose a wall insulation system that will insure tightness, have good R-value to keep heat in the building during cold weather, be reasonably priced, and deliver good value over a long enough expected lifetime. Whether you are considering installing wall insulation as a retrofit upgrade or improving new house construction insulation methods, it has to be done right the first time. For more information on insulation click here.
New Newsletter #74 -"Will Your Standby Generator Stand Up?" - Download Newsletter Here
Most growers are confident in their generator's ability to run for 30 minutes without problems because they are cycled once a week. But what if they needed to run for a week? The tornado devistation that occured in April of this year in Alabama caused power outages for a large number of poultry farms lasting 10 days or more. For growers who had chickens, this meant running on generator power until utility power was restored. Many growers were able to keep their generators working flawlessly to maintain power throughout the outage; but others were not so fortunate. The cost of an annual generator service is money well spent on what is hard to see as the most important piece of equipment on the farm - until the real test comes. For more information on generators click here.
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Mission: Improve bottom line profitability of the live production sector of the US poultry industry by providing timely applied research and education resulting in increased efficiencies in housing, equipment, energy and environmental control. Poultry housing, energy, ventilation, economics, and management problems are usually intertwined and very complex. In trying to find solutions to these major grower and industry problems, we at Auburn University have successfully used a teamwork approach for several years. The Auburn Poultry Housing Team collaborating in this work includes Jim Donald - Ag Engineer, Gene Simpson - Ag Economist, Jesse Campbell - Poultry Housing Specialist, and Dennis Brothers - Extension Poultry Housing Specialist. Feel free to contact any team member if you have questions relating to their areas of expertise. Please note, however, that team members cannot provide design recommendations or diagnose specific problems through email.
Last Updated: January 27, 2012
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