Poultry heaters for chicken houses


The best poultry heater for a chicken house is a gas heater. A gas heater gives instant heat and with a proper gas brooder the rheostat controls the temperature for you, switching on and off as required. In South Africa there are several brands of chicken heatersdo not think that a gas heater from a hardware store is the same – as attractive as the price is.

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M8 gas brooder from Gasolec

These heaters are not for commercial use and will soon stop working due to dust and wear and tear. In fact poultry heaters, due to their versatility and long life are a much better option than any other gas heater – the public often buy the gas heaters for their stoep or veranda. Gas heaters are generally used inĀ  poultry houses that raise broiler chickens – the day old chickens need to be kept warm for the first weeks, having no mother hen to provide heat. They are also used in poultry houses with battery cages – but only in very cold places. These heaters should be used in conjunction with a Min Max thermometer and a Wet Dry Thermometer to maintain the correct temperatures for raising broilers.

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Bell drinkers for poultry

Bell drinkers are plastic bell shaped items that automatically dispense water for chickens to drink. As the chickens drink water from the bell drinker – so the weight decreases. A valve opens and allows more water into the bell drinker.

Bell drinkers South AfricaThis is great if you have many chickens and you do not want to be continually filling up water fonts – you will need a header tank and a manifold system to allow the bell drinkers to work. The other upside is that you can medicate all your chickens at once by adding the medication to the water source. The height of each bell drinker is adjustable – so as the chicken grow you can raise the bell drinker – this means a lot less mess and no wet litter or shavings. You can also adjust the flow of water into the bell drinker. Bell drinkers are available from most poultry equipment suppliers in South Africa. For a very large chicken house a nipple drinking system is better. Bell drinkers, nipple drinkers, poultry drinkers are all ways to give your chicken water. Watering chickens is a very important aspect of chicken farming – giving chickens water or broilers water in a chicken house is critical – and can waste a lot of time – which means money!

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