sambo Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Hi Guys I was looking into the various options to heat the rearing shelters with the price of gas being so much as was wondering if any of you have gone down the electric heating option? Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyBaz Posted June 7, 2011 Report Share Posted June 7, 2011 Where is the option for wood chip boiler? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sambo Posted June 7, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2011 Where is the option for wood chip boiler? never even heard of them being used? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PheasantMan Posted June 7, 2011 Report Share Posted June 7, 2011 Gas is the best option i would say. Do you already have gas heaters? I think electric would be very costly to set up and run. We have electric to all of our big sheds already for lighting ect but we still use gas heaters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devon Fox Posted June 7, 2011 Report Share Posted June 7, 2011 Gas all the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highseas Posted June 7, 2011 Report Share Posted June 7, 2011 gas next for us.. next door shoot has elecie hens but has 20 or so heaters on standby incase power goes out kinda says it all eh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sambo Posted June 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 im after setting up a rearing field for next year so my boss has asked which is the best option as gas is so expensive now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyBaz Posted June 8, 2011 Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 How big a setup, number of birds, size of sheds? If small scale the gas is by far the cheapest and wool always be the cheapest even if costs go sky high. As an investment and on large scale take a look into wood pellet/chip boiler and generators you can be quite cleaver with it but does require big investment and/or more hard work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sambo Posted June 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 We are looking at doing 25,000 pheasants the first year in 10'x10' sheds but we want to do it righ so its less money spent in the long run Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highseas Posted June 8, 2011 Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 We are looking at doing 25,000 pheasants the first year in 10'x10' sheds but we want to do it righ so its less money spent in the long run best way! we use 12*12 sheds with 900 in each with 2 small heaters in ( thats what we had in the small sheds) and they do fine. we stopped putting hard board surrounds in this year too whitch was a brave move and ment sleeping in a empty shed and wakeing up every half hour to look at them for the first couple of nights ime keeping a photo diary of this years rearing season with the veiws of doing a wright up at the end for pw! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nats Posted June 12, 2011 Report Share Posted June 12, 2011 Gas for me too. Have you got sorted with any equipment yet as i may well be packing up rearing after this year.. PM me if you want any details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screwie Posted July 22, 2011 Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 if it was me i would get your boss to go down the big rearing shed way like the 19'x24' pukka pens or sedgeborrow ones they are insulated so use less gas in that size shed you can rear 2000 its quicker when you come to daily feed/check ect they are easy maintence if you have a telehandler they can me moved wholesale the only prob is if something does go wrong it really does with more birds. that is the way i would go everytime if i had the choice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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