Hydronic system provides safe and warm heating year-round at Ontario farm
Opting for a hydronic heating system instead of the radiant tube or furnace heaters that chicken farmers typically use, Haverkamp chose to install hot water boilers.
Hugh Haverkamp has 35 days to take a barn full of baby chicks from a weight of less than 2 ounces to 5 pounds. That not only takes a lot of chicken feed, it takes a lot of heat, especially when you raise more than 500,000 chickens a year.
As a chicken farmer in Listowel, Ontario, Canada, Haverkamp knows all too well how difficult, costly, and even dangerous a challenge that can be. In recent years, Ontario livestock fires have resulted in as much as $35 million in losses per year, not including loss of equipment, agricultural products, or livestock.