Improving Animal Comfort and Climate Control with Destratification Fans for Livestock & Dairy
Livestock and dairy facilities must maintain stable environmental conditions despite large open buildings, high ceilings, animal-generated heat and moisture, changing outdoor temperatures, and demanding ventilation requirements. Poor air distribution can leave animals exposed to hot, cold, or stagnant areas while heating and ventilation equipment works harder than necessary. Airius fans can help improve circulation, reduce temperature stratification, and support more consistent conditions throughout barns, poultry houses, dairy facilities, and agricultural production spaces.
The Challenge
Livestock facilities face very different environmental challenges throughout the year. During colder weather, heated air naturally rises toward the roof while animals remain at floor level. In poultry houses and heated barns, this can result in substantial amounts of energy being used to warm upper building areas before comfortable conditions are achieved where the animals are housed.
During warmer conditions, animal-generated heat can create a completely different problem. Dairy barns and livestock buildings require effective air movement to help reduce heat buildup around animals and support existing ventilation systems.
Moisture can also become a concern. Animals, bedding, washing, and agricultural processes introduce humidity into the environment, while inadequate circulation can contribute to damp bedding, stagnant zones, and inconsistent conditions throughout the building.
The Airius Solution
Airius fans can provide continuous air circulation throughout livestock and dairy facilities, helping reduce temperature differences, eliminate stagnant areas, and distribute heated or cooled air more effectively.
For livestock and dairy, two Airius systems are particularly well suited.
Air Pear EC Series
The Air Pear EC Series is particularly well suited for poultry sheds, heated barns, dairy processing areas, storage spaces, and other environments where temperature uniformity is especially important. Its focused columnar airflow helps return accumulated ceiling heat toward animal and work levels while continuously circulating conditioned air throughout the space. Multiple models accommodate different ceiling heights and facility sizes, while variable-speed EC controls allow airflow to be adjusted around changing environmental conditions.
Onyx EC Series
The Onyx EC Series is ideal for livestock barns and other facilities where strong circulation and cooling are priorities. Designed for powerful air movement, the Onyx EC can help increase airflow through large animal housing areas during warmer conditions while also providing destratification when heating is required. Variable-speed EC operation allows airflow to be adjusted according to outdoor temperature, stocking density, seasonal conditions, and ventilation requirements.
Potential Benefits
A properly designed Airius installation could help reduce floor-to-ceiling temperature differences, improve comfort at animal level, reduce stagnant areas, distribute heating and cooling more effectively, and support existing ventilation systems.
In poultry facilities, improved circulation can help return otherwise wasted ceiling heat to bird level, reduce heating demand, and support drier bedding conditions. In dairy barns and other livestock environments, increased air movement during warmer weather can help reduce heat buildup and create more consistent conditions throughout animal housing areas. For dairy processing and storage facilities, destratification can also help maintain tighter temperature consistency where ingredients or products require controlled ambient conditions.
Proven Results
Scolexia Pty Ltd implemented an Airius destratification system to address inefficient heating inside a poultry rearing shed. Warm air from the facility’s gas heating system was accumulating near the roof, meaning significant energy was being used to heat the upper portion of the building before suitable temperatures were achieved around the birds.
Airius fans were installed to continuously return that accumulated heat toward floor level. Following installation, the facility reported heating-cost reductions ranging from 20% to 50%, lower gas consumption, reduced CO₂ emissions, more consistent temperatures at bird level, drier bedding, reduced wear on the heating system, and improved environmental conditions for the birds.
Comfort for humans and animals alike
Every livestock and dairy operation has different animals, stocking densities, building dimensions, ventilation systems, heating equipment, humidity levels, and seasonal requirements. Airius systems can be selected and controlled around those conditions, using Onyx fans where stronger circulation and cooling are priorities and Air Pear fans where temperature destratification and environmental consistency are especially important.
The objective isn’t simply to move more air. It’s to create more consistent conditions where the animals, people, and products actually are.
