Canada - Organic broilers are raised in the Klompmaker family's barn in Ontario Canada. When raising broilers, creating a healthy indoor climate, and perfectly balancing air temperature and air quality will help to deliver maximum results and healthy birds. Regularly checking, adjusting, and ensuring the ideal temperature for the comfort, wellbeing, and development of broilers is a vital component of high-quality poultry. Mitch Klompmaker, who operates the farm alongside his brother and father, provides valuable insights into how they achieve this.
Mitch Klompmaker: “With the ECO unit heat exchangers and fans, we manage all air distribution within the barn. The fans help circulate the air and ensures that the air is evenly distributed in the middle. While the ECO unit recirculates the air to warm the barn, which effectively lowers humidity levels and creates a healthy climate for our animals. This system provides ventilation even during the winter months for my entire flock. It operates efficiently and consistently.”
Minimum ventilation
The barn of family Klompmaker features a layer of natural material on the floor. Since it is a free-range barn, the animals have access to the outdoors. Therefore, maintaining a healthy climate inside the barn is essential. The ECO Unit is a perfect solution for minimum ventilation in a poultry house. The ECO Unit is an air-to-air heat exchanger which heat up fresh air from outside with warm air taken from inside the poultry house, resulting in healthy birds and improved performance. Especially the different life stages of the broilers require adjustments of the indoor climate, finding the right balance between air temperature and air quality.
Mitch Klompmaker: “The system runs about 11.000 cubic feet per minute (CFM), that’s almost 1 CFM per bird. The birds grow more rapidly, the conditions are significantly improved, and they are easier to manage. Feed conversions are pretty good in this way, bird quality is amazing and mortality is definitely low.”