Chicken Barn

[BayPointArchitect]

Applicable Codes:
2012 IBC
2000 NFPA
2012 IFC

I have a few people asking me about the applicable codes related to a 22,000 square foot chicken barn.
If the type of occupancy were a multiple choice question, then I would say a large chicken coupe would be either F1, F2, or U occupancy.

And for the NFPA 101 Life Safety analysis, I would think that this falls into the category of "Special Purpose Industrial Occupancy".

Anyone else have an opinion?

Thank you!

ICC Certified Plan Reviewer
NFPA Certified Fire Plan Examiner

 

[mtlogcabin]

"U" occupancy

 

[Paul Sweet]

What state will this be in? Several states don't regulate agricultural buildings.

 

[fatboy]

Chicken barn for laying? Or, raising for processing?

 

[PJC89]

Agreed for both IBC and NFPA.

https://up.codes/viewer/general/int...hapter/3/use-and-occupancy-classification#312

312.1 General

Buildings and structures of an accessory character and miscellaneous structures not classified in any specific occupancy shall be constructed, equipped and maintained to conform to the requirements of this code commensurate with the fire and life hazard incidental to their occupancy. Group U shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
Agricultural buildings

Aircraft hangars, accessory to a one- or two-family residence (see Section 412.5)

Barns

Carports

Fences more than 6 feet (1829 mm) in height

Grain silos, accessory to a residential occupancy

Greenhouses

Livestock shelters

Private garages

Retaining walls

Sheds

Stables

 

[tmurray]

How does ICC and NFPA have codes for everything but agricultural buildings?

 

[cda]

How does ICC and NFPA have codes for everything but agricultural buildings?

Shhhhhhh

Don't need the International agricultural code

Or

International Barn Code

Section 1 All Barns Shall Be Painted Red

 

[SCBO1]

Thought the the "Chicken Barn" was a restaurant?

IBC 2012, Appendix C may help?

We call them poultry buildings here.

 

[mark handler]

Chicken barn for laying? Or, raising for processing?

 

[ICE]

There's a store in Whittier that sells live chickens. You can get them dead as well. The chickens are stored in a walk-in cooler......in cages the size of a shoebox. Too cold to move but not quite suspended animation.

 

[ADAguy]

MH, your "city" is showing. Back in the day SFV was full of what we called chicken coops, raised cages with dirt floors.

It is/continues to be un-American to restrict farmers. Old time dairys and chicken farms are proving to be environmental time bombs.
By definition coupes may be cages vs barns which contain cages or not.

The Whittier "store" is just that, a retail facility.

A chicken ranch (which they used to be called - ever try to saddle a chicken!?) raises birds for eventual processing or shipping live to processors.
So, is it a: hatchery, a laying facility, contain a processing plant ( a separate use) or other? Could also be a free range facility too with the barn/coupes only for weather protection.

 

[mark handler]

MH, your "city" is showing. Back in the day

Back in the day......

 

[mark handler]

There's a store in Whittier that sells live chickens. You can get them dead as well. The chickens are stored in a walk-in cooler......in cages the size of a shoebox. Too cold to move but not quite suspended animation.

There will soon be one in my city....Still in plan check.

 

[ADAguy]

Back in the day......

 

[ADAguy]

You never fail to "make my Day" Mark

 

[tmurray]

Shhhhhhh

Don't need the International agricultural code

Or

International Barn Code

Section 1 All Barns Shall Be Painted Red

Actually, I find our farm building code very useful at 31 pages long.

 

[cda]

Another thread gone down hill, off the tracks, lost in the ozone, on vacation,


Sorry Bay Point

 

[mark handler]

Another thread gone down hill, off the tracks, lost in the ozone, on vacation,
Sorry Bay Point

Never got the answer to Fatboy's questions ......"Chicken barn for laying? Or, raising for processing?" "fatboy"

 

[SCBO1]

.

 

[Yikes]

If we don't have an International Barn Code for chicken coops, maybe we can make one up...
from "scratch".

*rimshot*