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Poultry Research
Unit
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Inside the layer
barn.
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Layers in a conventional
cage.
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Layers in an enriched
cage.
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The
Poultry Research Unit is located on the University of Manitoba
Fort Garry campus about 500 m west of the Animal Science
building. This facility was constructed in 1976 and replaced
two barns which were located on the current premises of the
Freshwater Institute. The facility is operated by the
Department of Animal Science with financial support from
Manitoba Egg Farmers and the University of
Manitoba.
The
research farm consists of two barns. Poultry house no.1 is a
broiler facility which is divided into two equal halves of 32
floor pens each. Each floor pen can house 60 to 80 young
broilers with a maximum of 2560 birds per barn side. The
second barn houses 4200 laying hens in conventional and
enriched cages and a small breeding flock (135 hens and 12
roosters) for the supply of fertile eggs for
research.
Research
in the poultry unit focuses mainly in the areas of nutrition,
metabolism, caging systems and immunology.
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