Learning these four points allows you to buy high-quality poultry layer cages
Poultry farmers are now developing rapidly, and poultry layer cages have also been widely recognized by poultry farmers. The use of modern chicken cages for poultry breeding requires not only scientific breeding methods, but also the ability to purchase poultry farming equipment.
First of all, the material of the cage must be judged. If farmers want to make chickens have a suitable living environment, they must first ensure the strength and toughness of the cages. The cages can be restored when they are deformed when they are held by hands. This cage is suitable for the life of the chickens and will not be caused by the cage. It is hard and causes pectoral bursitis in chickens.
Second, ask the poultry farmer what preservative method is used for the chicken cage mesh. Then observe whether the surface of the chicken coop is smooth and whether the gloss is good. Generally, the surface of the cage made by hot-dip galvanizing process is relatively smooth and will not cause scratches to the chickens, and the gloss of the cage is also good, and it looks beautiful and generous. The most important thing is that the battery layer cages processed by hot-dip galvanizing are corrosion resistant, will not rust, and have a long service life.
The third chicken cage chassis setting skills. Since laying hens will lay eggs during the breeding process, farmers should pay attention to the wire spacing of the cage and the inclined surface of the chassis when purchasing cages. In order to ensure that the eggs can roll out smoothly without cracking, it is generally The wire distance is about 1.5 cm, and the slope of the chassis is 7-8 degrees.
The most important thing is to choose a regular poultry cage manufacturer. The most important point is that when purchasing cages, farmers must go to a regular large manufacturer to purchase, because the process of production equipment of large manufacturers is strictly inspected, and the price of products directly sold by the manufacturer will be higher than the price of the equipment in the hands of the agent. Low. This not only guarantees the quality of the purchased products, but also saves a lot of purchase funds.
How to ensure high yield of poultry layer chicken cage
High-yield layers are the dream of every poultry farmer. The chickens living in poultry layer cages are more likely to have high yields. Because of the scientific and automated management, the chickens can lay eggs in a comfortable environment.
- Reduce density: Layers have more feathers, and it is difficult to dissipate heat in summer, which makes them particularly afraid of heat. When the temperature gradually rises, farmers should reduce the density of chickens in time according to the temperature rise.
- Heatstroke prevention and cooling: The users of layer cages are mostly closed chicken houses, which are difficult to ventilate and dissipate heat by themselves. Therefore, farmers can use poultry ventilation systems to ventilate and cool the chicken houses.
- Ensure drinking water: Affected by high temperature, the water consumption of laying hens in summer is higher than that in other seasons. Farmers can use the automated water supply system in battery chicken cages, which can ensure adequate drinking water in summer.
- Scientific breeding: The feed intake of laying hens in summer will be affected by high temperature, so farmers should increase the content of various nutrients in the feed to ensure that they meet the nutritional standards for growth and production of laying hens. Laying hens.
- Strengthen epidemic prevention: The high temperature in summer is a good period for mosquito breeding. Mosquitoes and mosquitoes are a good way to spread diseases. Therefore, farmers must do a good job in disinfection and epidemic prevention of chicken houseto prevent diseases.
The above are the measures and key points for the breeder to ensure the high yield of laying hens in the process of using poultry cages!
Introduction and selection of automatic chicken breeding equipment
In today's chicken industry, the methods of raising chickens are no longer the same as before. The continuous development of technology has driven the progress of the chicken industry, and chickens are developing towards large-scale and intensive methods. And now chicken farming is no longer an era of full manpower. The emergence of various types of automated chicken farming equipment has allowed farmers to experience the human management equipment and the ease of equipment for chicken farming. The author will talk about the introduction and selection of automatic chicken breeding equipment.
Among the chicken breeding equipment, the automatic chicken breeding equipment mainly includes: automatic manure cleaner, egg picker, feeder and other equipment. It can enable the farmer's chicken house to realize the tedious and time-consuming work such as automatic dung cleaning, feeding and egg picking. Freeing the hands of farmers to give farmers more time to manage chicken flocks, the advantages of using these devices for chicken farming are:
1. It can realize large-scale breeding of chickens by farmers, and the use of these equipments plus the laying cage breeding method can allow farmers to raise tens of thousands of layers. And it can also be easily managed. With a large number of breeding, the economic benefits of the farmers increase a lot.
2. The use of automated equipment can ensure the sanitation of the chicken house. For example, the manure cleaning machine can automatically clean the manure regularly, and timely clean out the manure produced by the chickens, so that the probability of bacteria and ammonia generated by the chicken house is reduced. The chicken coop has a good environment and the chickens grow naturally.
3. Without these automated equipment, farmers need to hire manpower to complete the work of raising chicken manure, feeding, etc. The monthly salary of workers is a large expense. Now with automated equipment, you can reduce the use of these labor and reduce the cost of raising chickens.
4. When raising layer hens and broilers, using cages can facilitate the treatment and management of diseases. Cage keeping allows farmers to treat layer hens when they are sick, and the difficulty of treatment is greatly reduced. And the environmental control of the automatic chicken house is better, and it can also ensure that the layer is in good physical condition.
The above is the introduction and selection of automatic chicken breeding equipment in Pakistan for the author. I believe that after understanding the advantages of the above-mentioned automated chicken breeding equipment, farmers will understand why automated breeding can become the mainstream and trend of the chicken industry. These equipments are a good helper for farmers and ideal for driving farmers' economy.
How to avoid poultry laying hens from pecking eggs?
It is believed that even poultry farms with good egg production conditions will have poultry pecking eggs. This can happen if the laying hens develop a bad habit of eating their own eggs.
Laying hens pecking eggs may be accidental. But once it becomes a habit and other hens learn, the amount of eggs collected will drop a lot. How can we prevent this? Or if eating eggs has become a problem, how can we solve it?
Poultry battery layer cages can prevent laying hens from pecking eggs. Why do you say this way?
- The poultry feeding system in the layer battery cage system ensures that your chickens get an adequate and balanced diet. The device distributes the feed evenly in the trough, and the amount of feed can be adjusted. In order to avoid waste of feed, there are feeding devices at both ends of the trough, which can feed back the feed. Feed trough. We recommend that you add protein and calcium materials to its feed so that every chicken will be full.
- The internal space of the battery chicken cages is sufficient. The poultry layer should not directly touch their eggs. The egg rolls smoothly onto the egg belt. The egg belt transports the eggs to the front of the cage. Then the eggs are transferred to a vertical egg elevator. The egg guides in the front of each floor guide the eggs to different positions of the elevator without collision. In this way, the chicken cannot touch the egg, and the possibility of pecking the egg will not happen again.
The above is the way to prevent laying hens from pecking eggs shared by poultry equipment manufacturers with many years of experience. I hope that it will be helpful to you.
How to solve the problem of broken eggs
Egg breakage has become a headache for many laying hen farms. Nowadays, farming equipment and chicken battery cages are use to raise chickens and collect eggs. According to statistics, the breakage rate of eggs in many laying chicken farms is above 2%. Especially in the early stage of the chicken and egg production, the performance is relatively serious, generally between 1-3%, and some chicken farms have a higher damage rate, even more than 6% in poultry farming cage equipment
Once the egg is damaged, its economic value will drop by more than 60%, severely lose its economic value, and it will pollute normal eggs due to the outflow of egg liquid, and even cause pathogen reproduction pollution. The economic loss caused by broken eggs can account for more than 0.5% of the farming income. According to statistics from relevant departments, the direct economic loss caused by eggshell damage to the laying hens industry is as high as 500 million yuan per year, which has become one of the main factors affecting the efficiency of laying hens.
Especially with the change of breeding mode, the feeding cycle is prolonged, the application of mechanical egg collection is promoted, and the eggshell quality problem has attracted much attention. One of the most important reasons why eggs are damaged is that they lack vitamin D3, specifically 25-hydroxyvitamin D3. Some people think that it is calcium and phosphorus deficiency, and the test proves that there is no calcium deficiency in the feed. The broken egg indicates that the chicken has problems, that is, it is not healthy enough. At this time, supplementing “25-hydroxycapsule” to improve the health of the chicken and strengthening the eggshell is a smart choice.
When the calcium and phosphorus in the feed are not balanced, supplementation with 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 can increase the absorption of calcium and phosphorus. In the hot summer, the phytase added to the feed is prone to failure due to high temperature, resulting in insufficient phosphorus and imbalance of calcium and phosphorus. In the case of calcium and phosphorus imbalance, the addition of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 is more significant. High temperature in summer can easily cause heat stress in chickens. Heat stress can affect the quality of eggshells (the eggshells become thinner and brittle). The reason is that the blood calcium reduction of laying hens is also lower than the reduction of carbonic anhydrase and vitamin D activity in laying hens. The important reason. Supplementing 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 can increase the egg production rate, reduce the egg breaking rate, reduce the egg-to-egg ratio, especially increase the eggshell hardness and reduce the egg breaking rate.
The necessity of raising chicken in poultry layer cage system
The poultry breeding industry has always been a very popular project, and with the development of society, the way of raising chickens is gradually changing. Poultry layer cage system breeding is a more popular way of breeding layer hens in recent years, and it is also a common way of raising chickens in chicken farms nowadays. benefit.
Layer battery cages breeding is to concentrate the laying hens in the hen house. If it is raised in the previous horizontal and free-range methods, the layer chicken flock will take up more space. This kind of breeding method will be less than the number of cages, that is, the density of cages will be greater. It can be said that a chicken house with the same floor area will raise more laying hens in cages.
The breeding method of layer battery cages adopts a three-dimensional multi-layer method. This chicken house area will be fully utilized. In this way, the number of holidays will be increased, which can create greater benefits for farmers.
Another important point is that the use of layer cages is very helpful to the survival rate of layer hens. For the poultry farming industry, chickens live in battery cages and they can have a clean and comfortable environment. Chicken and feces will not come into contact. The manure of the chicken will be cleaned out of the chicken house by the poultry manure removal equipment, which will reduce the breeding of bacteria and increase the survival rate and egg production rate of the laying hens.
Harmfulness of Ventilation in Poultry Houses
Because broilers grow fast, metabolism is high, and they are high-density breeding, as the chickens continue to grow, more and more fresh air is needed, and more feces are discharged, and the more harmful gases are produced. The more gases that are most harmful to chickens, the ammonia and hydrogen sulfide for battery cage system in poultry.
Ammonia is a colorless gas with a strong pungent odor. It has a small specific gravity and generally rises to the top in a warm house. However, since ammonia is produced on the ground and around the chicken, the content of the ground in the chicken house is also high, especially When the house is wet and poorly ventilated, the concentration of ammonia in the house is higher. Chicken is particularly sensitive to ammonia. Ammonia has a stimulating effect on the mucous membrane of chickens, which can cause mucosal congestion and edema of the conjunctiva and upper respiratory tract. Pathogens fly through the upper respiratory tract and lung infections to the chest and abdominal airbags, causing respiratory disease in chickens, and the feed intake is reduced, which not only affects the growth and development of chickens, but also reduces the resistance of chickens to diseases, chickens and diseases. The incidence of chicken venomosis is increased and the production performance is greatly reduced in battery cage for layers.
Spring management of the chicken house environment
The use of chicken cages to raise chickens is a popular chicken raising method in the chicken industry. The chicken cages are raised in a multi-layer cage. The breeding density is large and the number is large. It is very popular among farmers, using chicken cages to raise chickens, and which are Need to pay attention to the chickens to pay attention to the matter, only pay attention to all aspects of feeding points, scientific and reasonable breeding can be able to raise the higher yield of the chickens, the following authors to tell the majority of farmers to use the chicken battery cages in spring Chicken's precautions.
1. Humidity
Relative humidity is preferably 60% to 70%. Higher humidity is beneficial to the survival and reproduction of microorganisms. If accompanied by low temperature, it will increase the risk of low temperature. When the humidity is low, the chicken house is dry, which is easy to induce respiratory diseases of the chicken. Especially when the chicken is in a dry environment for a long time, it may cause dehydration and weakness. Therefore, we must pay attention to the adjustment of the humidity of the house. In winter, the litter is relatively dry and should be sprinkled or spray disinfected frequently.
2. Temperature
The suitable temperature for laying hens is about 20 °C, and the minimum should not be lower than 13 °C. If the temperature inside the house is not up to the required temperature and the temperature difference is too large, it is necessary to manually increase the temperature and keep it as relatively stable as possible.
3. Harmful gas
The most harmful gas to chickens is ammonia, which stimulates the sensory organs of chickens, induces respiratory diseases, and reduces feed efficiency. When you enter the house, you can smell the smell of ammonia, indicating that the ammonia in the house has already exceeded the standard. Chicken houses that are warmed by coal stoves should be protected against carbon monoxide poisoning. When the harmful gas is excessive, take appropriate measures immediately, such as increasing the ventilation volume and changing the litter, so as to reduce and eliminate the harm to chickens.
4. Ventilation
When the air in the morning is relatively dirty, if it is necessary to increase the ventilation, it should be gradually increased. It is best to carry out at a high temperature at noon. It is better to use a shorter ventilation time and multiple passes. If the chicken is found to be disease-free, snoring and breathing, the dust in the house is full and the odor is very strong, indicating that the air in the house is extremely dirty, and ventilation should be strengthened immediately. However, to prevent thieves, it is common to install elbow-type ventilation on the leeward wall to prevent the chickens from being directly exposed to the wind.
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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.
Reasons for the formation of battery chicken cages for laying hens
The most important thing in laying hens is the egg production rate. 60 years ago, the social demand for eggs increased rapidly, and the high mortality of free-range chickens and chickens could not meet the needs of the society. So the trend of using battery chicken cages for laying hens to breed chicken began.
With the advancement of technology, automatic chicken raising equipment is now very popular. Modern chicken cage systems in use today are clean, automated and efficient. Modern sheds include automatic feeding, drinking, climate control maintained at 23°C, ventilation, lighting, and manure and egg collection. This efficient system allows farmers to optimize conditions for bird health and produce eggs at relatively low cost.
In addition, the use of laying hen cages allows chickens to be well protected, not only to avoid the invasion of animals, but also to avoid the invasion of pathogens.
The length of the battery chicken cages is generally 1,800 square centimeters to 11,000 square centimeters. Chickens can move freely, drink water and eat in this space. Because the trough is next to the iron mesh of the chicken cage. And there are two drinking nipples in a chicken cage, which can supply sufficient water for chickens at any time.
Layer cages are sometimes referred to as battery hen cages. Because parallel rows in poultry cages using automated chicken equipment look a bit like rows of batteries within a battery. Over the years, caged egg farming has attracted the approval of most poultry farmers. The hens are well cared for in the chicken coop, and can achieve free drinking water, eating, and a good living environment brought by the automated manure removal system and automated environmental control system.
The technology of raising chickens in modern poultry cages is very mature. Its convenience is also recognized by many poultry farmers. If you are also interested or want to know more about automated chicken raising equipment, please follow me.