Layer Chicken Farms - Poultry Farming Strategies of Layers and Broilers

With the increasing number of large-scale chicken farms, it is more contradictory for chicken farms to choose automated poultry cages for equipment, and they do not know how to choose. The following poultry equipment manufacturers will introduce to you how to make decisions on the selection of equipment for your reference

 

A Type Layer Cages

The laying hen equipment is a type A chicken coop. You can choose to install two types of manure cleaning: scraper cleaning and belt cleaning. It is a relatively early use of laying hen breeding equipment. If your coop can hold 5000-30000 birds. A-type battery layer cages are very suitable.

 

 

Advantage:

  1. The cost is low, and the breeding density is higher than that of flat breeding.
  2. The open area of each layer of chicken coop is large, even if it is an open chicken house, the ventilation effect is good.
  3. Reasonable design, easy to operate,
  4. Easy maintenance and long service life.
  5. The easy-to-open spring-loaded door makes it easy to observe and move the pullets.

 

Shortcoming:

  1. The area is relatively large, and the space utilization rate is low compared with the H-type chicken cages;
  2. The labor intensity of workers is high;
  3. The chicken manure on the upper tierof the chicken cage will fall to the chickens on the lower tier, which is not conducive to the health of the chickens and the integrity of the feathers.

 

H Type Poultry Cages

 

Chicken cages are tiered on top of each other like buildings. This kind of equipment was developed later, due to the increasing shortage of land resources, less and less land can be used for breeding. Therefore, more and more customers increase the stocking density, just to save land, and the degree of intensification is getting higher and higher.

 

 

Advantage: 

  1. Vertically battery chicken cages save more floor space, increase the number of feeding, reduce labor and management costs, and ultimately bring considerable profits to chicken farmers.
  2. There is a manure removal belt at the bottom of each cage, which is clean and hygienic, allowing the chickens to grow healthily and less pollution to the environment.
  3. Small footprint, high space utilization, easy to achieve intensive and large-scale breeding;
  4. Sliding cage door, the opening is convenient and large, and it is easier to catch chickens.

 

Shortcoming:

  1. It adopts closed type and automatic temperature control, otherwise it is difficult to control the temperature inside the chicken house.
  2. There are at least tens of thousands of chickens in a chicken house, and the risk factor is relatively high.

 

Based on the above situation, I believe everyone knows how to choose. The chicken farmer still choose the equipment that suits them according to their total amount of laying hens and investment.

Wednesday, 25 August 2021 08:53

About the layer battery cage feeding mode

Under the development of breeding automation, the layer battery cage breeding mode has been widely recognized by the majority of layer farms. This breeding method has a small area and high space utilization. The layered cleaning of chicken manure can not only improve the utilization rate of chicken manure, but also It also reduces the degree of environmental pollution. At the same time, labor intensity is reduced and productivity is improved. Although stacked cages have many advantages, the premise is to know how to use them and how to manage them.

 

 

 

Due to the inconvenience of layer battery cages, it is inconvenient to catch the chickens. The laying time for laying hens can be appropriately extended. Vaccines that require immunity, such as Newcastle disease, infectious bronchitis, avian influenza, and egg drop syndrome, should be completely immunized before being basketed. over. When the egg production rate reaches 5%, the prenatal feed should be replaced with peak feed. The refueling will take one week for the transition. At this time, the feed should maintain high quality and stable nutritional content, and do not change the finished feed and raw materials at will.

 

 

In addition to the conventional power system, a generator that matches the chicken farm must be required and can be automatically switched. To ensure uniform light in the house, light bulbs can be installed on a staggered level or row of lights can be used. In order to ensure the service life of the equipment, lubricate the transmission parts such as the transmission sprocket and gears of the transmission box once a month when in use. Clean the surface of the egg roller and fecal roller in time. Clean up the impurities in the soft and broken egg collection tray in time. The ventilation system should be adjusted appropriately for side wall ventilation and roof ventilation according to the different seasons. Always keep the lighting bulb clean to prevent affecting the light intensity.

Nowadays, laying hen farming has become a popular poultry farming industry. Layer cage equipment is also becoming more and more popular with poultry farmers. So what devices are commonly used? Today, the laying hen cage manufacturer will give you a brief introduction.

 

 

  1. Layer cage for sale. The use of chicken cages to raise laying hens can fully utilize the area ofthe chicken house to raise more chickens. Can increase the number of farmers breeding. And the cage covers a relatively small area. This can not only save the area of the chicken cagefor farmers, but also increase the number of farmers. When using laying hen equipment, the flock can be effectively isolated from manure. In this way, the chickens are prevented from contacting the feces and the spread of the disease is reduced.

 

  1. Automatic feeding system. The automatic feeder is specially designed for the construction of cages. The feeding machine has the advantages of strange layout, practical, time-saving and labor-saving, uniform feeding, low consumption, battery power supply, DC motor drive, low noise, convenient operation, flexible steering, small turning space, and convenient maintenance.

 

  1. Automatic manure cleaning system. The manure cleaner is widely used to remove the manure of poultry and livestock raised in poultry chicken cages in Ghana. It can realize unmanned management, automatic and timely cleaning of manure, arbitrary time setting, temporary manure removal, simple and fast operation, automatic manual conversion, convenient management and no need for many personnel. The chicken manure runs with the manure scraper to the end and falls into the manure removal belt and is sent to the manure truck to be pulled away, which can improve the environment in the house and reduce the occurrence of diseases.

 

  1. Automatic drinking water system. Water is an indispensable substance for raising chickens. From the point of view of saving water and preventing bacterial contamination, the drinking fountain is an ideal water supply building, which can realize automatic drinking water for laying broilers, and does not require farmers to manually feed water, which is highly efficient. Leaking drinking fountain.

When using layer chicken cages to raise chickens, humidity is also an important condition for brooding, but chicken farmers generally do not pay enough attention. The humidity in the brooding house is generally expressed in relative humidity. The higher the relative humidity, the more humid the air; the lower the relative humidity, the drier the air.

After the chicks come out of the shell, they enter the brooder house. If the humidity of the air is too low, the moisture in the chicks will be exhaled through breathing, which is not conducive to the absorption of the remaining yolk in the chicks and the growth of the chicks' feathers. Once the chicks have been given a drink, the chicks often develop diarrhea due to too much water.

Appropriate humidity requirement: 60%-65% before 10 days of age, and then reduced to 55%-60%. In the early stage of brooding, due to the dry litter, the house is often hot and low humidity, which is easy to increase the water loss of the chicks, loss of appetite, frequent drinking, dry and brittle fluff, and dry toes.

In addition, too dry can easily lead to dust, causing respiratory and digestive diseases. Therefore, this stage must pay attention to the replenishment of water in the house. You can spray water on the aisle or wall of the house to increase humidity, or place a basin or kettle on the stove to burn water to generate steam to increase the humidity in the house.

After 10 days of age, the chicks developed quickly, gained weight, and their feed intake, water intake, breathing volume, and excretion volume increased with each passing day, and the temperature in the house gradually decreased. Especially in the midsummer and rainy seasons, it is easy to have excessive humidity. The chicks are not well adapted to the humid environment. The low temperature and high humidity in the brooding house will exacerbate the adverse effects on the chicks at low temperatures. The chicks will feel colder and even tremble with cold, at this time susceptible to various respiratory diseases. When the high temperature and high humidity in the brooding house, the water evaporation and heat dissipation of the chicks are hindered, and they feel more sultry and uncomfortable, and the chicks are prone to coccidiosis and aspergillosis.

Therefore, during the period when laying hens cages are used to raise chickens, it is necessary to change the litter frequently and strengthen ventilation. When adding drinking water, prevent water from spilling onto the ground or litter.

Wednesday, 21 August 2019 09:11

Light management of chicken flocks

Light is an important environmental factor affecting chickens. It is necessary to know that suitable light can stimulate the secretion of sex hormones in hens, enhance the activity of ovaries and fallopian tubes, accelerate the formation and discharge of eggs, and the development of fallopian tubes, thereby improving the production capacity of hens. We should pay attention to these techniques when using chicken poultry cage equipment to raise chickens.

 


Do not reduce the lighting time during the laying period. The first time of adding light is 18 to 19 weeks old, and the light is generally started by the standard weight of 18 weeks old. For example, the standard weight of 18 weeks of age is 1.55 kilograms, that is, the light stimulation is started with the weight of 1.55 kilograms, but no later than the end of 19 weeks. The addition period is determined according to the weight of the chicken group, and it is generally preferred once a week. The time for adding light shall not exceed 1 hour, and the period of addition shall not be more than twice a week, nor less than two weeks. According to the light cycle to determine the duration of the light, generally the first two light stimulation is better, if the light is applied once a week, it is recommended to add light for the first two times, and then increase by half an hour every week until 14~16 hours; If you add twice a week, split the one-week addition time into two. The peak lighting time must not be less than 15 hours. The upper limit of the illumination time is 16 hours, and constant illumination is applied when the upper limit is reached.

 

Be sure to consider the consumption and increase of the flock before adding light. The increase in illumination is mainly due to the fact that the chicken population does not meet the standard and needs to stimulate the flock to feed, thereby increasing the weight of the chicken population. Lighting management must take into account the effects of natural light length and seasonal factors to develop a reasonable lighting program. When supplementing the light, the power supply should be stable, and the floor area should be about 3 watts per square meter.

 

 

 


Brooding period. Both chicks and broiler chickens are in a growing period. At this stage, light management should promote the healthy growth of chicks and have a high survival rate, but prevent hens from reaching sexual maturity prematurely. Chicks can grow well under low light intensity, but in order to make them eat and drink as early as possible, the first week of light can reach 12 hours per day, and the light intensity can be larger.

 


Breeding period (7-20 weeks old). The main purpose of light management is to control growth and development, and to achieve sexual maturity at the appropriate age. Premature sexual maturity, not only the egg weight is small at the time of opening, but also due to insufficient maturity, it will be discontinued shortly after the start of production, and then it will not be stable and high yield. From the stage of young chicks to 10 weeks of age, the length of light duration does not have much effect on sexual maturity, while the age of 10-18 weeks is critical.period. The lighting time is short during this time. Chickens raised in closed houses are completely artificially illuminated, and the duration and intensity of light can be controlled.

 

Laying period. The principle of light management during laying period is to enable hens to start production and reach a peak at the right time, giving full play to their egg production potential. Therefore, the illumination time should be long, and it should not be gradually shortened, and the illumination intensity should not be weakened. During the laying period, it is generally used with increasing or constant illumination, but not less than 14 to 17 hours of light per day. Laying hens are very sensitive to light hours. Generally, they start from 21 weeks of age, and give chickens 13 to 14 hours a day. After that, they increase by 30 minutes per week and increase to 17 hours to maintain the peak of egg production.

 

After determining the addition period, do not change it at will. In the process of adding light, if there is a large difference between the actual body weight and the standard body weight, the lightening interval can be appropriately extended, but it must not be longer than two weeks at the latest. From the beginning of the light to the peak of the egg production, it is generally better to stimulate it continuously for more than eight times. The light intensity should not be arbitrarily changed during the addition of light, which has an effect on the growth and development of the chicken in the automatic poultry farming cage.

 

 

Layer cage system price in Kenya has now become a modern farm essential poultry farming equipment. Because poultry facilities allow chickens to be better cared for and produce more eggs. Poultry equipment manufacturers through 6 points for everyone to share.

 

1.Supplement vitamin C in time during laying. In daily feeding process, farmers can choose to add 0.02% vitamin C to the diet of laying hens. According to the practice of many producers, vitamin C can increase the laying rate of laying hens by 11%.

 

2.Feed eggshell powder during laying. We all know that egg production and laying hens need a lot of protein. Eggshell powder in feed materials contains a lot of protein. Just what laying hens need. So farmers can crush or mash the eggshells. Add proper amount of eggshell powder into the feed of laying hens. This increases egg production by about 10%.

 

 

3 Feed the laying hens baking soda. Feeding baking soda to laying hens can not only improve the performance of laying hens, but also strengthen the hardness of eggshell. Adding 0.3% to 1% baking soda to the diet of laying hens can increase the productivity of laying hens.

 

4.Cut off the feathers of laying hens in summer. It is hot in summer. In order to reduce the heat of laying hens and increase their appetite, farmers can cut off all the feathers on the breast and abdomen of laying hens as well as the inner thighs and under the wings. This will increase their appetite and improve the performance of the layer.

 

5 To control the reasonable lighting. In the process of raising laying hens in battery chicken cages. Whether the light time of laying hens is uniform and sufficient will also affect the later production performance of laying hens. Lay hens are exposed to light for 8 hours a day at the time of perinatal opening. After each additional week, its light increased by half an hour. Until it reaches the peak laying period of 14-16 hours, until the end of laying, the egg production of laying hens will be significantly improved.

 

Break your wings when feeding chicks. Within 12-24 hours of the chick coming out of the shell, the farmer can use scissors to cut off the root of the wing. Then use a 50-watt electric iron to cauterize the bleeding, and then apply purple potion to disinfect. By doing this, laying hens can start production 10.5 days earlier and their laying rate increases 10.8 percent.

 

The above 6 tips are shared by poultry equipment manufacturers on how to use the layer cage system to get chickens to produce more eggs. I hope I can help poultry farmers.

 

Wednesday, 19 December 2018 02:34

What are the main points of the laying period?

Do you know how many days of hatching an egg can produce a chicken? When does the chicken grow to start laying eggs? What is the peak period of laying eggs? do we need to care something?

A fertilized egg usually hatches the chicken after 21 days, the duck egg is 28 days, the goose egg is 30~33 days, the pigeon egg is 18 days, the pearl egg is 26 days, and the fire egg is 27~28 days. It takes these stages for a chick to go from hatching to final elimination.

Chicken raising, especially laying hens, determines the length of the egg production period. Why should limit light and limit materials before? Because, at the stage of 43~126 days, if the light is not limited, the chicken will lay eggs in advance, resulting in a shortened egg production period of 3 to 5 months, causing serious losses.

So the peak of egg production is so important, what should farmers pay attention to?

In addition to daily management, pay more attention to the condition of laying hens. Usually, in addition to packing eggs in egg packing system, clear dung, feeding, cleaning, you should also observe the status of the laying hens, see if there are sick chickens, etc. In short, pay more attention. Laying hens must ensure that nutrition is kept up.

Reduce stress and maintain environmental sanitation. High-yielding laying hens are easily frightened, resulting in less food for laying hens and lower egg production rates.

The problem to be paid attention to in raising chickens in summer: the optimum temperature for chicken adaptation is 13 to 25 degrees, and the production is customarily used for 21 to 25 degrees. In the hot summer, the chickens are fed in the cool morning.

 

Monday, 25 March 2019 07:32

Advantages of layer battery equipment

The layer battery equipment manufacturers tells the advantages of the layer cage. Do you know any advantages of the layer cage? is that clear? It doesn't matter if it is unclear. Let's talk about the breeding advantages of layer cages.

 

Chicken farmers should know that chicken cages play a big role in the process of breeding. Especially the layer battery cages, it is a good protection for eggs, let's take a look at some of the advantages of laying chicken cages.

 

The equipment plays an important role in the breeding, especially in the laying of laying hens. The first part of the laying hen cage and the cage door show its advantages. The density of the cage and the angle of the egg are more and more manifested from these aspects. The benefits of chicken.

 

 

The benefits of the cage: the upper and lower cages are completely staggered, often seen in 2 to 3 layers. The advantage is that there is no need to set up a dung board at the bottom of the cage. For example, the manure pit may not have a clearing system. The structure is simple, and the ventilation and illumination areas of each layer are large.

 

1. The mesh of the egg cage is relatively smooth, which can prevent the chicken from being injured in the foot.

 

2. The egg cage and the bottom net are encrypted, which can effectively prevent the fatigue of the ankle and laying hens.

 

3. The mesh of the egg cage is galvanized, which can improve the service life of the chicken cage. Generally, it can be used for 10 or 15 years.

 

4. High-density feeding of egg cages is more economical, and is conducive to epidemic prevention, and can also reduce the incidence of poultry diseases.

 

5. The unique door reinforcement design of the egg cage can effectively prevent the chicken from wasting feed when eating. And because the cage door space is increased, it is more convenient to manage the chicken.