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Poultry Houses: There are several different types of poultry houses operating on-site for layers <br /> and brooders (Figure 4). Each type of house is designed to function differently and will be <br /> described below. At the present time the facility operates year round with approximately <br /> 540,000 birds. Maximum capacity will be 1.5 million hens. <br /> House(s) 1-5 are approximately 40 years old. They are lath type houses. Houses 1 —6 are no <br /> longer in use. They have been cleaned out and disinfected. Each house is 54,150 square feet <br /> and made of wood lath with metal roofs. There is a single row of hanging cages with a wooden <br /> scrape board beneath the cages. They have concrete path ways and shallow pits directly below <br /> the cages. <br /> Houses 7 & 8 are approximately 6 years old. They are the tow environmental houses and are <br /> 40,915 square feet. Each house holds approximately 120,000 hens and produce 15.71 cubic <br /> yards of manure a day. These houses are air tight and all mechanical. There are conveyer <br /> belts under every row of cages. The manure is cleaned out daily. It is moved to the back of <br /> the building on conveyer belts and dumped directly into a truck. It is then transported to the <br /> composting house for processing. <br /> House 9 and 10 are still under construction. They will be 54,600 square feet when completed. <br /> When these houses are completed and stocked with hens they will follow the same procedure as <br /> houses 7 and 8 for the handling of poultry manure. They will house 150,000 hens and will <br /> produce 20.15 cubic yards of manure per day. <br /> The bunker is a concrete building that sits over by the large manure pond. This building is <br /> 48,670 square feet. <br /> The brooder house is strictly for baby chicks. These will be the replacement hens. There are <br /> approximately 150,000 chicks in this house. The chicks are housed here for approximately 16 <br /> weeks and they produce approximately 7.39 cubic yards of manure for the 16 weeks that they <br /> are in the brooding house. <br /> WIND VELOCITY AND DIRECTION <br /> Historical wind data indicates prevailing wind is from the northwest at approximately 8 miles <br /> per hour. High winds occur infrequently and are usually associated with the passage of winter <br /> storm systems out of the Pacific Ocean. <br /> 6 <br />