Layer Chicken Farms - Poultry Farming Strategies of Layers and Broilers

Now most farms have widely used layer battery cages to raise chickens, and automatic chicken raising equipment has become an indispensable chicken raising equipment for the majority of chicken farmers. In recent years, the market demand for laying hens has not expanded. In order to improve breeding efficiency, Raising chickens in layer cages has become a trend, so what are the advantages of raising chickens in layer cages?

 

 

  1. High level of automation: automatic feeding, drinking water, cleaning manure, wet curtain cooling, centralized management, automatic control, saving energy, reducing artificial feeding costs, greatly improving the breeding efficiency of farmers.
  2. Poultry prevention is good and effective prevention: the chicken does not touch the feces, which can make the chicken grow more vigorously and provide a clean and warm growth environment for the chicken, and the slaughter time is much earlier.
  3. Save the space and improve the stocking density: the cage density is more than 3 times higher than that of the flat stocking density.
  4. Frugal breeding feed: egg hencages can save a lot of breeding feed. Chickens are kept in cages, so the amount of exercise is reduced, the energy consumption is low, and the waste of feed is reduced. The materials indicate that cage breeding can effectively save more than 25% of breeding costs.
  5. Consolidation and durability: The complete set of caged chicken equipment uses hot-dip galvanizing technology, which is corrosion-resistant and aging-resistant, and its service life can be as long as 15-20 years.

       6.Time saving: It is convenient for breeding users to manage chickens and save more time to deal with other things.

First of all, chicken can obtain higher economic benefits. Self-made feeds: At present, the prices of commercial compound feeds produced by the feed processing sector are relatively high. Farmers may purchase full set of chicken In order to reduce costs, it is best for farmers and chicken farmers to feed their own chicken. Use local produce or self-cultivated food and other agricultural and sideline products for food preparation and try to be as comprehensive as possible.

Secondly, purchase of finished feed and then re-preparation: In order to spend less to feed, you can buy a lower price of compound feed. However, due to its poor quality, in order to ensure the nutritional needs of chicken, you can add some homemade soybean cake, cottonseed cake, peanut cake and so on. You can also purchase more fish meal, blood meal, bone meal, amino acid, and other additives, and feed it evenly with the feed.

Thirdly, as the season changes, the feed intake of chickens will also change. In summer and autumn, where the temperature is higher, the feed intake of the chicken is reduced, and the protein feed and amino acid content of the diet should be appropriately increased. When the winter chickens are in season, the food intake will increase, the protein feed and amino acids in the diet should be reduced appropriately, and the amount of roughage should be increased appropriately to save costs.

Battery chicken cages to raise chickens live in cages, and the source of nutrition is feed. In order to ensure that the laying hens get balanced nutrition, farmers can choose and feed according to a series of nutrients to achieve balanced nutrition in the laying hens and ensure the laying hens Good egg production performance.

  1. The content of salt should not be too high: Salt is a raw material and must be added in the process of preparing feed. It can increase appetite and prevent feathers and anus pecking. However, if the farmers add too much salt to the chicken feed, it will cause the laying hens to be thirsty and then need a lot of water, which will lead to excessive drinking water and frequent intense diarrhea. In addition, farmers should pay attention to the rich salt in fish meal, so farmers must control the amount of salt when adding, so as to avoid excessive salt in the feed, causing diarrhea in laying hens.
  2. The amount of stone powder should not be too high: stone powder is also a raw material that farmers often add when preparing feed, but it should be noted that if the amount of stone powder in the diet is too high or increase too fast, it will cause excessive blood calcium in laying hens and increase The kidneys are burdened, causing the kidneys to swell. This will eventually lead to diarrhea. When preparing the feed, the editor reminds farmers that the amount of stone powder should be gradually increased with the increase in laying rate of laying hens, and should not be added too much at once.
  3. Prevent mildew of raw materials: High temperature and high humidity can easily lead to mildew of feed, so moldy feed farmers should not feed them to laying hens, because moldy feed contains some toxins, which can stimulate and destroy the intestinal mucosa of laying hens. , Which in turn leads to increased intestinal mucosal permeability of laying hens, leading to diarrhea in laying hens.

 

 

Automatic poultry chicken equipment manufacturers here remind farmers to pay attention to the nutritional balance of the feed to ensure that the chickens receive adequate nutrition and grow healthier.

In the process of raising chickens, in addition to selecting reliable poultry equipment manufacturers. Experts believe that strengthening winter management is an important part of increasing egg production rate. Now let's talk about the management of chicken raising in winter.

 

In winter, the temperature is low, and the chicken consumes a lot of heat, so it is necessary to eat more feed. When the room temperature is lower than -5 °C, the chickens gather in a group, do not like activities, walk slowly, and the laying hens will also stop production. Below -10 ° C, the cockscomb will freeze. Other feeding and management conditions remain unchanged. If the room temperature can be raised to about 10 °C, the egg production rate can be increased. However, the room temperature is too high, and when the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor is very different, it is easy to cause a cold when the chicken is placed outside.

 

 

Therefore, the most suitable temperature in the room should be controlled at about 5 °C, so that the drinking water does not freeze, the chicken can disperse the activity, and the normal egg production is maintained. The method of heat preservation mainly makes the house tight, and there is no place for ventilation. It can also be densely fed and a windproof fence on the outside of the house and the playground. Thus, when the outdoor temperature is not lower than -30 ° C, the night temperature in the house can be maintained at 2 ° C - 3 ° C, 5 ° C - 7 ° C during the day, without burning fire for temperature. In areas where temperature is required, a fire wall can be built in the house to balance the temperature.

 

In winter, it is also important to keep the air fresh inside the house. Otherwise, due to lack of oxygen, it will affect the metabolism of the chicken and the egg production rate will decrease. Therefore, the vent should be opened frequently during the day. When the sun is sunny and the climate is warm, you can open the small window and then open the big window for ventilation. If the outdoor temperature is around 0 °C, the chicken can also be released from the house.

 

In winter, it is mainly based on house feeding, it is easy to accumulate manure, and the humidity in the house is high, which affects the health of the flock and the quality of the eggs. In order to keep the ground dry, a small amount of lime can be smeared when changing the grass.

 

In winter, not only should you pay attention to adequate nutrition, but also with a high-calorie grain feed. Long winter nights can increase the amount of feed when feeding the last pellets.

 

Drinking water should be kept warm, especially if you drink warm water in the morning to promote warming and promote exercise. In order to make the chickens exercise more, you can often feed the pellets in the sports field, or hang cabbage, radish, etc., so that the chickens can eat freely and run more. Conditional can be installed in the house to increase the light, one to warm, and the other to stimulate activities to promote egg production. Generally, the time between artificial lighting and daylighting is not less than 13 hours - 14 hours. Every other week, one-thousandth of potassium permanganate water is supplied in the morning, which can prevent chicken stomach and cornea from being ulcerated, and improve the rate of love and hatching.


The morning and evening of the peak of egg production is related to the feeding and management conditions in chicken farm equipment for sale. The higher the limit of feeding during the breeding period, the faster the peak appears. In the flocking period, the flocks that restricted the light, the peak of laying eggs appeared earlier than the flocks that did not limit the light during the breeding period. After reaching the peak of egg production, the egg production rate can generally reach 93% to 94%, and the highest can reach 95% to 97%, maintaining 3-4 weeks, and then decreasing by 0.5% to 1% per week, which is a steady decline; The egg production rate at 72 weeks of age can still be maintained at 65% to 70%. The extent of the new comprehensive technology for large-scale safe chicken raising is affected by genetic factors, and there are certain differences in varieties or strains. Poor feeding management, flocks suffering from stress, disease or high ambient temperature, the actual egg production rate declines weekly.
This period of final production is quite short. Although the pituitary gland still produces gonadotropin, the egg production rapidly declines until it can not form an egg. The laying of the female poultry has a certain periodicity, that is, a certain egg laying pattern can be repeated. It is manifested by the fact that the female produces an egg or produces several eggs in succession, and then stops production for one day or more in poultry battery cage.

 

The summer weather is hot, and the egg production rate will drop, especially after entering the sky, so the farmers need to do the following management to ensure the egg production rate of the laying hens in summer.

Feeding management points

1. Pay attention to the weather forecast, pay attention to the high temperature and high humidity weather, especially after the rain, the higher humidity will cause the wet curtain to cool down and increase the heat stress.

2. Reduce the density of chicken battery cage feeding. Appropriately reduce the number of replenishment, timely eliminate residual, weak, sick chicks, expand the group as early as possible, reduce the stocking density.
 
3. Adjust the feeding time. After 2-4 hours of feeding, the heat production increases, so high temperature weather avoids feeding during high temperature period, and feeding time avoids high temperature period, preferably before 8 am and after 5 pm. Pay attention to the mildew and deterioration of the feed to prevent poisoning or intestinal diseases, daily cleansing and limiting light once.

4. Strengthen night ventilation and cool down. Conducive to the chickens to dissipate the heat during the day, increase feed intake.

5. Adjust the waterline in time to ensure sufficient clean drinking water. In high temperature weather, the chickens need a large amount of water to ensure that the chickens have sufficient water, and the lower drinking water temperature can lower the body temperature.

6. Timely supplement electrolytes and vitamins. The flock has a large amount of respiration, and at the same time, it has a large amount of drinking water, which is easy to cause imbalance of the acid-base balance. At this time, the electrolyte should be replenished in time; at the same time, the compound vitamin is supplemented to improve the body's ability to resist heat stress.

7. Reduce the stocking density. Laying hens are particularly afraid of heat. In summer, people should reduce the stocking density of chickens in time according to the rising temperature. The density of flocks should be based on ambient temperature, humidity and the type of house. In the hot summer, reducing the stocking density can effectively reduce the small ambient temperature in the house, which is of great significance in production practice. When captive laying hens enter the summer, it is advisable to raise 5 per square meter; after entering the volts, it can be reduced to 4 per square meter.

The above points are the advantages of raising chickens in poultry battery cages described by the author. Generally, the breeding quantity is less than 1,000. It is best for farmers to use flat or free-range breeding. This breeding method is the most cost-effective and can quickly return to cost. If the breeding volume is more than 3,000 or more, then the author recommends the use of layer chicken cages, which is convenient and labor-saving.

 

With the development of the breeding industry, automatic layer chicken cages are now essential chicken breeding equipment for farmers. What are the benefits of using chicken cages to raise chickens? Let's discuss it today.

        1.High degree of automation. Active feeding, drinking water, cleaning manure, wet curtain device. The use of this type of equipment to centrally manage the chicken coop can greatly improve the efficiency of breeding.

2.Conducive to the epidemic prevention work. Because the automatic manure removal systemmakes the chickens inaccessible to manure. This will make the chicken grow stronger. It also provides a clean and warm development space for chickens.

3.Save breeding feed. The use of stacked layer cages can greatly reduce the breeding feed. Because chickens grow in cages, their activity is reduced. The chicken's body consumes less energy, which leads to less feed waste.

4.The chicken coop is stable and durable. Hot-dip galvanizing technology is now used in automated breeding equipment. Make the equipment use longer, and it is also resistant to corrosion and oxidation. The service life can reach 15-20 years.

5.Save time. Because of the high degree of automation of modern chicken farming equipment, it is more conducive for farmers to manage the chicken coop and save time for other tasks.

Farmers are in the daily process of raising chickens. There are some broken eggs caused by careless management. Eggs are affected by the health of the chicken, and the hardness of the eggshell will also vary due to the health and quality of the chicken flock. Here are some methods for farmers to prevent egg breakage.

 

After laying hens begin to lay eggs, they increase with age. The surface of the egg will also increase. The strength of the eggshell is reduced. Therefore, the older the laying age, the higher the breakage rate. In laying hen cages, the higher the egg breakage rate of standing or squatting laying hens is lower. Laying hens lying prone or squatting have lower egg breakage rates.

 

Laying hens lack the light required to absorb calcium at night, and the eggshells formed are thinner. Therefore, the breakage rate of eggs laid in the afternoon is lower than that of eggs laid in the morning. The health of the chicken also affects the quality of the eggs. Many diseases have an impact on the quality of eggshells. Such as infectious bronchitis, etc. will make the egg structure abnormal, irregular shape, and increase the egg breakage rate.

 

 

Among the nutrition, calcium, phosphorus and vitamin D have a greater impact on the quality of eggshells. Under normal circumstances, the amount of calcium required in the diet of laying hens should be 2.7-3.75%. This is 3-4 times larger than the 0.9% calcium requirement of non-laying hens. The phosphorus requirement of the laying hen's diet should be 0.5%. Vitamin D can promote the absorption of calcium and phosphorus. Such as in the absence of vitamin D. Even if the laying hens are fed rich calcium and phosphorus, they will produce soft-shelled eggs.

 

Environmental changes and the temperature of the chicken house have a greater impact on the eggshell. The higher the shelf temperature, the more broken the eggs. In summer, the eggshells of eggs laid by chickens are usually about 5% thinner than eggs in other seasons. This is mainly because high temperature will reduce the feed intake of chickens, and the intake of calcium will be reduced accordingly. In addition, in a high-temperature environment, if the relative humidity is high, the heat dissipation of the chicken is not good, and the egg will be damaged even more.

 

Farmers can purchase automated chicken raising equipment. It contains an automatic egg collection system. The chicken coop has a slightly inclined angle. After the laying hen lays the egg. The eggs roll along the conveyor belt. This reduces the egg breakage rate.