Poultry Farming and Chicken houses

Gas Heaters for chicken houses - called brooders or gas brooders are the most efficient way to warm a poultry house in South Africa. Electricity is now very expensive and is not reliable. If you lose power in your chicken house you will lose your chickens.

There is no in between - no heat - no chickens. Day old chickens need warmth - even on a hot day your baby chickens will need to be in an environment that has a temperature of about 34 degrees C. Even if your chicks do not die from the drop in temperature, your growth and weights will suffer down the line. The answer is a gas brooder, and the best on the market is the Gasolec brooder - available in 2 sizes, these are by far the best way to heat a poultry house.

Gas heaters give instant heat where you need it. The chicks can move in and out of the warm spot as they need to. There is no need to heat the whole house - just where the chicks are. The other ways to keep your chicken warm both rely on electricity - radiant heaters and coal powered heaters called heatcos - heatcos need a fan to distribute heat - and because hot air rises - you will need to heat the whole house.

The G12 Gasolec gas brooder is a large heater - mostly used in large poultry houses. The smaller version for small poultry houses i the M8 gas brooder. Both these heaters are imported. This is such a good design that a South Africa company is copying it - unfortunately the quality is just not the same - and when it come s to heating a chicken house you should take no chances - even if you can save a few Rands. Gasolec brooders have a thermostat - you can regulate the temperature automatically - as the house temperature rises the gas heater will move to a low setting and as the temperature drops it will kick in again. Supplied with a dust filter to ensure no blocking of the jets (poultry houses are very dusty) the gas brooder is hung from the roof of the poultry house.

Make no mistake - as electricity price rise in South Africa the cost of heating a poultry house is going to become a huge factor in the cost of raising broiler chickens. Breeder houses are totally dependant on heat to survive in the first few weeks, and in cold areas even older chickens need heat. Heating a chicken house with a gas heater or gas brooder is going to become the only form of heating that chicken farmers use in the future. Heating a chicken house with a gas heater or gas brooder is the best form, and the cheapest way to way of heating. Gasolec is the best heater on the market today.

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