- Author
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Von Wachenfelt, E.
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Garmer, H.
- Title
- Fire Protection and Animal Rescue in Poultry Stables. Brandskydd och djurraddning i fjaderfastallar. [Fire Protection and Animal Rescue in Poultry Stables.] (Abstract in English)
- Coporate
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Lund
- Report
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Special Report 163
1988
70 p.
- Keywords
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animals
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farms
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fire protection
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building fires
- Identifiers
- laying hens
- Abstract
- It is almost impossible to rescue poultry from burning buildings or buildings which are threatened by fire. We found in a study of fire injuries that all poultry died when the house was burning down. Special for this type of animal keeping is that the buildings are big and keep several thousands of animals. If there is more than one building, the buildings are often close to each other. In structures with more than one building for laying hens, the buildings are often connected to each other with one or two culverts. The culverts are for common egg collections and dunging out. The laying hen stables have expensive equipment and if there is an egg packing machine, this has a great value. The grat number of animals and the possibility to reach the animals make the rescue and the caretaking of the animals very difficult. It takes a lot of manual work. From time studies when a poultry building was cleared from animals, we found that it took more than 2.5 hours for 10 men to empty a building with a 6,800 laying hens in cages. Trucks with transport cages were at the farm when the time study started. In buildings with laying hens on floor when all equipment was taken away and the department was put in order to take out the hens, nine men can take out 2,000 hens per hour. The speed is about 5,000 animals in hour for eight men in a broiler house. It is generally considered that when a house is burning there are about 60 minutes time available to save the animals.