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Loose Housing Construction is a low-cost, easy to build housing solution for livestock. The three loose housing systems proposed in this work correspond to the needs and possibilities of most livestock raisers of young cattle in the developing countries.
After a concise description of these housing systems, the standards which have to be respected and the circuits called for, users need a more detailed description of how this housing is built, and that will be the topic of this second part of the work.
Whichever system is selected, housing is made up of a certain number of components, such as the manger, the drinking-trough, the fencing, and so forth, which fill highly specific functions. Each component can be thought of as an identical standard module, unvaried no matter which kind of housing is finally selected for its installation.
Strict standards have been formulated for the construction of each of these modules. The builder does, however, have great freedom with regard to building materials, which can be chosen in accordance with availability and price.
The “roof module”, for instance, can be tile, eternit, sheet iron, puddled clay or thatch; the frame, wood, iron or reinforced concrete.
With “modular” design, standard building components are possible for whichever kind of housing is selected. The manger module, for example, is identical for completely open, combination and fully roofed loose housing.
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