Michael Czarick

"El Sr. Czarick ha sido el líder en el desarrollo del uso de ventilación de túnel para mantener frescas a las aves en climas cálidos. La industria avícola en los EE.UU. e internacionalmente lo considera el padre de la ventilación de túnel. La ventilación de túnel permite una rápida ventilación en las naves y proporcionar una brisa constante que proporciona un efecto de enfriamiento por viento de diez grados o más y facilita el uso de paneles evaporativos de refrigeración. Antes de la introducción de la ventilación de túnel, la industria del broiler de EE.UU. perdía millones de aves cada verano debido al estrés por calor. Además del costo de las aves perdidas, se perderían cientos de millones de dólares cada verano debido a la reducción de las ganancias de peso y al aumento de los índices de conversión.

En 1985, cuando el Sr. Czarick comenzó su carrera en la Universidad, la ventilación de túnel era un concepto no probado. La ventilación de túnel se usó en solo un par de granjas en Georgia, cuyo diseño se realizó mediante prueba y error y, como resultado, los beneficios variaron ampliamente. Algunos productores encontraron beneficiosa la ventilación de túnel, pero muchos otros pensaron que sus beneficios eran menores que los de las naves con ventilación convencional. Gracias a la investigación y numerosas pruebas de campo, el Sr. Czarick aportó una perspectiva de ingeniería a la ventilación de naves avícolas y desarrolló la ciencia de la ventilación de túnel. Se determinaron las pautas de velocidad del aire, así como las pautas de selección, instalación y operación de los ventiladores. Desarrolló unas guías de uso de gestión de la ventilación, de entradas de aire y paneles para la ventilación de tipo túnel. Estas guías son utilizadas en la industria avícola de todo el mundo. A través de la guía del Sr. Czarick, el rendimiento de las aves en naves con ventilación de túnel ha mejorado hasta el punto de que nadie considera seriamente construir una nave de broilers que no tenga ventilación de túnel, ya sea en el sur de Georgia, Pensilvania o Australia.
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Mr. Czarick has become a world leader in the movement of the poultry industry to modernize controlled environment housing. The modern broiler house is designed to allow the producer to precisely control the environment throughout the year. Through the use of tunnel ventilation during warmer weather, and negative
pressure/inlet ventilation during the remainder of the year, producers can provide optimal growing conditions within a house regardless of outside weather conditions.

Mr. Czarick has worked with every major poultry company in the U.S. as well those in dozens of countries on the development of poultry house specifications to insure a proper level of environmental control. In order to properly control the environment throughout the year, an environmental control system is required. A house needs a heating system, a minimum ventilation system, a transitional ventilation system, tunnel ventilation, and an evaporative cooling system. These systems must be properly designed and coordinated in order to maximize bird performance and keep energy costs to a minimum.

Mr. Czarick’s knowledge of controlling poultry environments is widely recognized by the scientific community. Mr. Czarick designed the environmental control systems for UGA’s five-million-dollar Poultry Research Complex expansion. He has also designed the environmental control systems for new research facilities for the USDA Lab in Beltsville, Maryland, University of Arkansas, Auburn University, two of the industry’s primary poultry breeder companies, four poultry companies and for a major poultry pharmaceutical company.

With ever-increasing energy costs, energy usage is a major area of concern for most poultry producers. Mr. Czarick has spent a large percentage of his time over the years working to keep poultry house energy usage to a minimum. He has conducted numerous field studies on various energy conservation techniques, many of which are used in poultry houses around the world today. Mr. Czarick has conducted numerous programs across the state as well as across the nation on educating poultry producers on how to keep their operating costs to a minimum.

Mr. Czarick is considered by the poultry industry and the academic community as the leading authority on the design and operation of poultry house environmental control systems. Since 1985, Mr. Czarick has written over 190 monthly Poultry Housing Tip newsletters. Each newsletter covers a different aspect of poultry house environmental control and energy conservation. Over 3500 copies of the newsletter are distributed each month to poultry producers, county agents, and poultry companies around the world. Most of the people that receive the newsletters are poultry company managers/supervisors that are responsible for hundreds of growers. The managers/supervisors copy the newsletters and distribute them to their growers increasing the actual distribution into the thousands. Countless other individuals download new as well as past newsletters from Mr. Czarick’s UGA Poultry Sciencey Website, www.poultryventilation.com.

Mr. Czarick’s website is a very popular source of information on poultry house ventilation and energy conservation. At the site users can find over 350 past Poultry Housing Tips as well as Powerpoint notes from many of the presentations he has given at recent educational meetings.

Mr. Czarick’s unique ability to explain relatively complex ventilation concepts in an easy to understand way has made him a highly sought after speaker world round. Over the past 36 years Mr. Czarick has given presentations on poultry house environmental control and energy conservation in 56 different countries on six different continents.