Farm: Copperfield Farms Ltd
Location: Vauxhall, Alberta
Broiler Barn 430’ X 74’
This is Copperfield’s 3rd barn with SCLE. Copperfield’s building has concrete walls (Copperfield makes their own) and wood trusses and ceiling lined with EZ PVC liner panel. This barn has chimney ventilation with a combo of end wall fans. Two rows of inlets on either side of the ceiling one row for winter ventilation and combined with another row for summer ventilation accompanied by a misting system with the summer inlets. A doghouse is built on the end of the building to protect the 72” exhaust fans from back pressure and to soften the light. This barn has the capability to move about 400,000 CFM and can exchange the air in barn in roughly 1 minute about 8 CFM per bird. This current operation includes the following:
- Argos P1 ventilation control
- 25” ziehl chimney fans with belimo
- 72” max air exhaust fans
- Cumberland hi-lo pan feeding
- Cumberland nipple watering
- Vari-Flame forced air heaters
- Meridian bins
- Ap flex flo auger
- Wheat blending
- Misting
- 18” stir fans
- Feed and water line power winch system
- Once ag lighting
