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The UK Poultry Research Facility, located
on the College of Agriculture's Coldstream Farm, is a vital
part of teaching, research and extension programs in poultry
science. It also provides support for other programs in Animal
Sciences and other university departments.
The facility includes three layer-cage
rooms with a combined capacity of 2,600 laying hens and two
grower-cage rooms that hold 2,800 pullets. The cage rooms
are equipped with a unique direct-cage ventilation system
that provides a very uniform environment through each room.
The cage rooms have heating, air conditioning and evaporative
cooling to provide a high degree of environmental control
throughout the year.
The facility also has two floor-pen rooms
for maintaining chickens on litter in a total of 100 pens.
The pens sizes can be varied and can be equipped with nests
to accommodate laying or breeding hens to meet different experimental
needs. The floor pen units can house approximately 2,400 growing
chickens (broilers or pullets) or 800 breeder hens.
The laboratory section of the facility
includes an egg storage room, equipment for processing eggs
and poultry, and feed mixing equipment. This section also
includes the incubator room and a meeting room.
This modern building provides excellent
facilities for faculty and graduate students to conduct research
aimed at improving poultry production. The facility also provides
opportunities for interested undergraduate students to gain
hands-on experience working with poultry. |
