Poultry & livestock
Wireless monitoring of the four things that decide a flock's day - Temperature, CO₂, Humidity and Ammonia - across poultry houses, broiler and layer barns, dairy and livestock sheds. Catch heat stress, poor ventilation and rising gases before they cost you birds.
What to monitor & why
Air quality is one of the most underestimated drivers of bird performance - poor conditions cause stress, respiratory disease, uneven growth and higher mortality. These are the four CropWatch tracks, and the numbers the research says to hold.
target Target 64-75 °F (18-24 °C) for adult birds · age-specific for chicks
Birds only convert feed to weight efficiently inside a narrow comfort zone. Stray above it and heat stress quietly cuts growth and feed conversion and drives up mortality - long before birds visibly pant. Brooding chicks need precise heat to build immunity and stay unstressed.
target Target ≤ 3,000 ppm · chicks tolerate ~4,000 ppm
CO₂ is your single best proxy for whether the house is actually ventilating. It climbs fastest in cold weather and during brooding, when gas heaters run and operators throttle airflow to save heat - exactly when a sealed house can starve birds of oxygen. Rising CO₂ is the early warning that minimum ventilation is too low.
target Keep 50-70 %RH · the best overall air-quality indicator
Relative humidity is the most telling single measure of house air quality. Above ~70 %RH litter turns wet - driving footpad dermatitis, coccidiosis and respiratory problems - and CO₂ and ammonia climb with it. Below ~60 %RH those gases tend to stay in check. Watch RH and you see trouble coming.
target Keep below 25 ppm
Ammonia irritates birds' lungs, weakens immunity and slows growth and egg production. The danger is that you can't trust your nose - workers acclimate to the smell within about 20 minutes, so harmful 50-100 ppm levels go unnoticed. A continuous NH₃ reading catches what people can't.
lightbulb These four move together: when humidity rises past 70 %, CO₂ and ammonia climb with it. CropWatch surfaces all of them on one screen so a single trend warns you before any one crosses the line.
Security & biosecurity
The same CropWatch network that tracks your air also tracks your doors. A wireless contact sensor on any barn, feed store or medicine room logs every opening and closing with the exact time and duration - and can raise an alert the moment a door opens when it shouldn't.
Every door event is recorded with open and close timestamps and the minutes in between, kept right alongside your climate history.
A door that opens at 2 a.m. triggers an SMS, email or call the moment it happens - to as many people as you like, with no per-recipient fees.
A propped-open door bleeds heat in winter, lets vermin in and breaks biosecurity. Set a time limit per door and get warned before it costs you.
Timestamped door history doubles as a visit record for biosecurity audits: which rooms were entered, when, and for how long.
Why timing matters
By the time birds are panting, performance is already dropping. Early temperature and humidity alerts give you time to react.
A stalled fan or stuck inlet sends CO₂ and ammonia climbing across an entire house in minutes. Per-zone monitoring tells you exactly where, fast.
Nobody's walking the barn at 3 a.m. Continuous monitoring and a phone alert mean you don't have to be.
Per-zone visibility
One sensor at each end (and the middle) shows you the real climate gradient - not a single thermostat's guess. Battery-powered and wireless, so you place them where the birds actually are.
Built tough, built honest
Swap sensors yourself between flocks - no service call, no downtime.
NIST Traceability as well as RESET® CO2 certifications bring our food grade safety to the barn.
Sensirion SHT40 and SCD41 digital sensors - calibrated and tested at an accredited lab.
A protective board coating shrugs off humidity, dust and temperature swings for years of maintenance-free service.
Recommended sensor
Questions
Most operators run one at each end and one mid-house to capture the climate gradient. Because the sensors are wireless and battery-powered, you can add or move them at any time without rewiring.
The board is conformal-coated and the electronics are potted in resin for high-humidity, high-dust houses. The enclosure is IP66-rated and washdown-ready. If a sensing module ever degrades, you swap it yourself in the field - no return shipment, no downtime.
Temperature tells you comfort; CO₂ and ammonia tell you whether the air is actually safe to breathe. CO₂ is the earliest sign a house is under-ventilated, and ammonia harms birds long before workers can smell it. Watching all four - with humidity as the early indicator - catches problems a thermostat never sees.
Yes. Alerts can go out by SMS, email and webhook to as many recipients as you like - included, with no per-recipient fee.
Ready when you are
Tell us how your houses are laid out and we'll map the sensors and alerts to match.
