This document discusses different types of poultry housing systems including free-range, semi-intensive, folding unit, and intensive systems. The intensive system includes battery and deep litter systems. It also describes different types of roofs for poultry houses such as shed, gable, monitor, and semi-monitor roofs. Poultry houses can be classified based on the number of rooms/pens, portability, and style of roof. A sample plan and design of a poultry house is provided.

1. INTERPRET
DRAWINGS AND
DESIGN
POULTRY HOUSING SYSTEM

2. TYPES OF POULTRY HOUSING
1. Free – range or extensive system
2. Semi - intensive system
3. Folding unit system
4. Intensive system
•a. Battery system
•b. Deep litter system

3. FREE-RANGE / EXTENSIVE
SYSTEM
•It is the oldest one and has
been used by farmers where
there is no shortage of land.
•Birds are protected from
predatory animals and
infectious diseases including
parasitic infestation.

4. SEMI-INTENSIVE SYSTEM
•allow the birds 20-30
square yards per bird of
outside run.
•space should be divided
giving a run on either side
of the house of 10-15
square yards per bird,
thus enabling the birds to
move onto fresh ground.

5. FOLDING UNIT SYSTEM
•birds being confined to one
small run, the position is
changed each day
•gives them fresh ground
and the birds find a
considerable proportion of
food from the herbage are
healthier and harder

6. INTENSIVE SYSTEM
•the birds are confined to the house entirely,
with no access to land outside.
•This has only been made possible by
admitting the direct rays of the sun on to
the floor of the house so that part of the
windows are removable, or either fold or
slide down to permit the ultraviolet rays to
reach the birds

7. TYPES OF INTENSIVE SYSTEM
BATTERY SYSTEM
• most intensive type of poultry
production and is useful to those
with only a small quantity of floor
space at their disposal.
• each hen is confined to a cage just
large enough to permit very
limited movement and allow her
to stand and sit comfortably.

8. DEEP LITTER SYSTEM
•the poultry birds are kept
in large pens up to 250
birds each, on a floor
covered with litters like
straw, sawdust, or leaves
up to a depth of 8-12
inches.
•Deep litter resembles to
dry compost.
TYPES OF INTENSIVE SYSTEM

9. POULTRY HOUSES MAY BE
CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO:
1. The number of rooms or pens they contain
2. Their portability or permanence
3. The style of roof
4. It has been observed that a greater number
of layers thrive well and produce more in the
open type of laying house. The layer eats
less and lays more eggs than those layers
housed in a closed type.

10. TYPE OF ROOFS FOR POULTRY
HOUSES
1. availability of materials
2. amount of investment
3. size of operations

11. TYPE OF ROOFS IN USED IN
POULTRY HOUSE
Shed or single span type. This type of roof is
used in small construction which makes use
of the simplest materials.

12. TYPE OF ROOFS IN USED IN
POULTRY HOUSE
Gable or double span. This type of roof is the
most common type of roof system.

13. TYPE OF ROOFS IN USED IN
POULTRY HOUSE
Monitor type. This type of roof is ideal for
big establishments especially in commercial
farms. It is a double span with an outlet of
air at the top of the roof.

14. TYPE OF ROOFS IN USED IN
POULTRY HOUSE
Semi-monitor type. This type of roof is
similar to the monitor type except that the
outlet of air is made on one side only.

16. A SAMPLE PLAN AND HOUSE
DESIGN OF A POULTRY HOUSE

17. ACTIVITY
Draw an example of poultry house.