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- Equipment used to provide warmth and light and to rear the baby chicks during the first few weeks of life are called brooders.
- The brooders consist of some heating source, reflectors to reflect the heat and light towards the chicks, light and heat adjustment devices such as stands, thermostats and other accessories, depending on the model.
- Different equipment used for brooding are
1. Charcoal stove / kerosene stove
- These are used in places where electricity is not available or costly and where power failure is quite common.
- These stoves are covered with plates or pans to sustain the heat in the brooding area.
2. Gas Brooder.
- Natural gas, LPG or methane is connected to heating element which is hanged 3 to 5 feet above the chick to provide heat.
- It is attached with canopy type reflectors to reflect the heat towards the chicks.
3. Electrical Brooder.
- It is also thermostatically controlled heating system that spread required amount of heat uniformly above large area, this avoid crowding of chicks under brooder directly.
- One electrical brooder can be used for 300 to 400 chicks.
4. Infra-red bulbs.
- It is a self-reflecting bulb and hence no need of reflector over the bulbs.
- 150 and 250 watt bulbs are available to provide sufficient heat to 150 and 250 chicks, respectively.
5. Reflectors/ Hovers.
- These reflectors are called Hovers.
- These are reflectors of heat and light.
i) Flat type hover
- These hovers are flat provided with heating element, heating mechanism and pilot lamp and in some cases thermometer are also there in order to record the temperature.
- Generally they are mounted with stands on all four corners, instead of hanging from the roof.
ii) Canopy type hover
- These reflectors are in concave shape consisting of ordinary electrical bulb, thermostat mechanism and in some cases thermometer.
6. Brooder guard / chick guard.
- These are thin sheets of metal, hard board, or bamboo mat of 1 to 1.5 feet height and varying in lengths.
- They are used to restrict the movement of chicks, so that the chicks will be kept closer to the brooders and prevent them from chilling.
- They are used to prevent chicks from straying too far away from heat supply until they learn the source of heat.
- We have to provide brooder guard with a diameter of 5 feet, height of the brooder should not exceed 1.5 feet.
- For this purpose, we can use materials like cardboard sheet, GI sheet, wire mesh, and mat etc. depending upon the season of brooding.
- During summer season, brooding is done for 5-6 days. In winter season it is 2-3 weeks.
7. Electrical heaters (heating rods or coils).
- This type of brooder is provided with heating elements and pilot lamps and in some cases thermometer is provided to record the temperature.
- They used to have a reflecting device over the heating rods or coils.
- The temperature can be adjusted depending on the requirement.
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Dr.Rahulpreet Singh
( M.V.Sc Scholar ) |
Dr. Pranav Kumar
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Dr. Amandeep Singh
(M.V.Sc Scholar, IVRI ) |
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| Division of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, R.S. Pura, SKUAST Jammu |
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