Evaluation of relative humidity of air in prototypes of poultry facilities for Brazil in winter conditions

Abstract

Brazil possesses the third largest aviculture industry in the world and one of the smallest production costs of chicken meat, but little attention has been given to the planning phases and architectural conception of the poultry facilities. The quantification of alternatives for improvement of the thermal comfort, studied in reduced models, as well as the ideal scale for those prototypes, is still incipient for poultry facilities in the Brazilian conditions, since most of the research on this subject has been developed for temperate climate areas. The objective of this work was to test three different small scales prototypes of poultry facilities and three different types of coverings, and its influence on the relative humidity of the inside air during winter conditions.