MISSISSIPPI STATE, Miss. — The cold weather ventilation program in a broiler house is designed primarily for moisture removal. With the arrival of cooler weather, growers and integrators must once again address wintertime ventilation management.
Ventilation during cold weather is always challenging because growers do not want to burn any more fuel than necessary, but they do want to maintain a high level of flock performance. For most growers, fuel is their greatest single expense during the year. Therefore, growers tend to reduce ventilation rates during the winter in order to conserve fuel and lower production costs.
However, failure to maintain. . .
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