Method and apparatus for the reduction of ammonia, carbon dioxide and pathogens in poultry farms.

摘要

Installing poultry (10) comprising a closed growth chamber (11) including walls (12, 14, 18, 20), a roof (22, 24, 26, 28), a ventilated floor (64) a ventilated floor component (65; 120), an upper surface being configured to support chickens and their manure directly thereon in the absence of a litter, said floor comprising (64) flow passages having dimensions that allow the passage of air and fluids therethrough while preventing passage of manure a lower pressure chamber closed (66; 150) provided beneath the ventilated floor (64) and air moving blowers (44, 72 ) and create a pressure differential in the air between the growth chamber (11) and the pressure chamber (66; 150) enough to make the air flow from the growth chamber (11) through the ventilated floor ( 64) and any manure deposited thereon, and into the chamber pressure (66; 150) for drying manure and resultant reduction of ammonia production in the manure, said lower pressure chamber closed (150) comprising a plurality of bottom floor modules (100) provided with a component flat (102) and a plurality of upstanding spacers (104) base and said ventilated floor comprising (64) a plurality of sections of rectangular ventilated floor (120) having a flat rectangular shape substantially equal to said flat base component (102 ).