Service Room The service room of a chicken barn contains the Environmental Control System, which controls the heaters, fans, air vents and lighting. An alarm system indicates sudden changes in temperature or power failures. Adjustments to the controls can be made from the computer terminal in the home.

	Tractor The tractor has many uses on the farm. It is used to operate the straw chopper; transport bales of straw and spread manure on the fields.

	Producers There are over 1,000 Chicken Producers raising chickens in Ontario.
	Storage & Equipment Shed The storage and equipment shed stores the tractor, combine, straw chopper, bales of straw and other equipment used on the farm. Barn In between crops of chickens, the barns are cleaned and disinfected.

			Straw Bedding can be made from straw or wood shavings. Straw is used most often as it is more absorbent than the wood shavings.

	Combine The combine is used to harvest wheat, corn and soya beans. A combine can cost as much as a house.

	Feed bin Feed bins can store 18-21 tonnnes of chicken feed. It takes approximately 1.9 kg of feed to produce 1 kg of weight on a broiler chicken.

	Chicken Broiler chickens mature in 6 to 8 weeks. The female is called a pullet and the male is a cockerel. At 5 weeks they are fully feathered.