Tipologia e conforto térmico em galpões avícolas no Estado de Pernambuco e sua influência no desempenho de frangos de corte

Abstract

This research was conducted with the objective of analyzing quantitative and qualitative aspects of the poultry houses in terms of thermal efficiency and typology of built environments, with emphasis on productive performance. The first step was a survey of the main typological characteristics of the region where it was evaluated 68 sheds on 27 farms in the period May 2011 to April 2012, which allowed the removal of the constructive features of the aviaries in mesoregion of Pernambuco. For the second stage we selected five sheds with different typological characteristics, to determine the thermal efficiency of the system-poultry shed by means of thermal comfort indices (radiant heat load index, globe temperature and humidity and specific enthalpy) and the balance energy (sensible and latent exchanges) based on the performance of broilers. As a result of the first stage, the constructive characteristics were most evident width of 10-12 m (56%), length of 100-120 m (59%), with a slight separation between warehouses (<30 m) below the ceiling recommended (<3 m), eaves between 1 and 1.25 m (40%) low walls and high (> 0.2 m). As for natural cooling, most installations presented coverage natural lawn type (56%), no lining (96%) and louver (100%), cover with ceramic tile (93%), reflective paint on the roof (97%) and oriented east / west (89.7%). For artificial cooling, the primary heating source is wood hoods (71%), positive pressure ventilation (68%), fogging at high pressure (57%). As for the equipment presented to most feeders (54%) and drinkers (65%) commuting, axial fans (100%), the bed was used by most rice straw (56%) and yellow curtain (65%). In the second phase of this work, the thermal comfort indices showed no significant difference between the sheds (P <0.05). Environmental variables showed variations during the day, and the hours of 09 am to 15:00, showed mean values above the thermal comfort zone. As the energy balance, trade sensitive significant difference among the five sheds, as the times the effect was significant (P <0.05). The sensitive exchanges showed variation between the sheds. The data showed an increase in trade latent from the fourth week, but these values were lower than is thermal stress conditions, except for 3 who shed the seventh week exceeded trade exchanges latent sensitive. With respect to production performance, we note that there was no significant difference between 1 and 4 to shed the weight gain, mortality, feed intake and feed conversion. Including this last variable Shed 3. For other sheds the difference was significant at the 5% level of probability. Overall, it can be observed that the values found for the production indices remained below the tracks taken as optimal for cutting poultry industry.