DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY BUILDINGS Open sided poultry houses cow sheds floor roof walls sheds for young stock ventilation

1. DESIGN AND
CONSTRUCTION OF
LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY
BUILDINGS
UNIT 5
Dr. P. Ravikanth Reddy
MVSc, PhD
Guest Faculty
KBR College of Agriculture and Horticulture
Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University
Dr. YSR Horticulture University

2. 1. Environmental controlled house
 To protect from environmental condtions
 Tropical building – Loose housing system and measures
in preventing heat radiation (floor, wall, roof)
 Maintenance of air velocity and ventilation
Designing the animal building
Air velocity and ventilation

3. 2. Quality of products
 Housing should depend on quality of products
 High quality eggs – Cages with slatted floors
 High quality milk with low bacterial counts – Parlour
system of milking

4. Deep litter system with layer birds – Soiled eggs

5. Cage system with layer birds – Good Quality eggs

6. Milking the cows in milk parlour

7. Parlour system of milking

8. 3. Labor control
 Costliest
 Double row arrangement of animals
 Construction of alleys
(Milk alley, feed alley, egg alley)
Decreasing labour requirement

9. 4. Disease control
 Washable and easily drained floors
 Suitable drainage systems
 Dampness resistant surfaces (to reduce humidity, which
will cause respiratory infections)
 External loose box –
For isolation of sick animals
Drainage system

10. 5. Standard height of the building
 Differs according to the roofing material and
agroclimatic condition
6. Length of the building
 Depends on the total stock to be used

11. 1. Site plan
 Site location
 Building arrangement and road formation
Preparation of housing plan
2. Floor plan
 Aerial view of different structures
 Dimensions of building, location of ventilators, and
door ways – Scaled drawing of a building.
3. Elevation
 Appearance and view of the whole building
4. Cross section
 Details of building foundation, type of flooring, walls
and roof, internal fittings, partition, feeding and
securing devices

12. Floor plan

14. 5. Master plan
 Rough plans should converted into master plan
6. Van-Dyke print
 Negatives of the original drawing
7. Blue print
 Negatives are exposed to blue print papers and
fixed in potassium dichromate
8. Orientation
 Long axis: East-West direction

15. Van-Dyke print picture – Negative for blue print

16. Blue print of a typical Human house

17. East-West direction

18. ARRANGEMENT OF
BUILDING
UNIT 7

19. 1. Farm houses or homestead
 Buildings for persons working in the farms
 Never be placed to leeward side of the house (To
prevent flies and dung smell)
 Farm office should be at prominent places (Center of
the farm)
 Manager’s house at entrance for effective supervision
 In mixed farming – Piggery should be away from
dairy and managers office.
Farm buildings can be grouped into 5 major categories

20. 2. Farm buildings or Farmstead
 For animals housing
 Should be away but not too away from the farm house
 Workers cannot turn out at night or bad weather
3. Farm store
 For preserving feed materials

21. 4. Quarantine shed
 At the entrance of the farm
 To quarantine new animals purchased
5. Isolation shed
 Away from the healthy animal shed

22. Aerial view of Sheep farm, LRS, Palamaner, SVVU, Chittoor district
ENTRANCE
Manager house Quarantine shed
Isolation shed
Farm store