Layer Chicken Farms - Poultry Farming Strategies of Layers and Broilers
LIVI poultry farming equipment manufactures offer a variety of chicken cages designed to meet the diverse needs of poultry farmers in Zambia. Here are the different types of chicken cages available:

 

1. Laying Hen Cages

 

A-Type Laying Hen Cages

 

  • Design: These cages are structured to house laying hens in a comfortable environment. Each compartment typically accommodates 3-4 birds.
  • Advantages: Cost-effective and easy to manage, making them ideal for small to medium-sized farms.
  • Features: These cages often come with basic feeding and drinking systems, and they can be upgraded with additional automation if needed.

 

H-Type Laying Hen Cages

 

  • Design: H-type cages are designed for larger operations and can be stacked in multiple tiers to house a higher number of birds.
  • Advantages: Maximize space utilization and come equipped with advanced automated systems for feeding, drinking, and egg collection.
  • Features: These cages are highly efficient and reduce labor costs, making them suitable for large-scale commercial farms.

2. Broiler Cages

 

H-Type Broiler Cages

 

  • Design: These cages are designed to house broilers in a controlled environment, promoting healthy growth and efficient feed conversion.
  • Advantages: Ideal for large-scale operations, offering high-density housing and advanced automation for feeding and waste management.
  • Features: Equipped with automated systems to ensure consistent feed and water supply, and effective waste removal.

 

Broiler Flat Cages

 

  • Design: These cages provide ample space for broilers to move around, promoting natural growth and reducing stress.
  • Advantages: Suitable for both small and large farms, offering flexibility and ease of management.
  • Features: These cages can be integrated with automated feeding and drinking systems to enhance efficiency.

 

3. Automated Systems

 

In addition to the different types of cages, LIVI offers a range of automated systems that can be integrated with their cages to enhance productivity and reduce labor costs:

 

  • Feeding Systems: Automated feeding systems ensure consistent and efficient feed distribution, reducing wastage and labor costs.
  • Drinking Systems: Automated drinking systems provide a constant supply of clean water, promoting healthy growth.
  • Manure Cleaning Systems: Automated manure cleaning systems maintain a clean and hygienic environment, reducing the risk of disease.
  • Egg Collection Systems: Automated egg collection systems streamline the process of gathering eggs, minimizing breakage and labor.

 

Conclusion

 

LIVI poultry farming equipment manufactures provide a comprehensive range of chicken cages designed to meet the specific needs of poultry farmers in Zambia. Whether you are running a small-scale farm or a large commercial operation, LIVI's cages and automated systems can help you achieve higher productivity and profitability. By choosing the right type of cage for your farm, you can optimize space utilization, enhance bird health, and reduce operational costs.

In recent years, with the vigorous development of the chicken industry, the improvement of the research and development level of livestock breeding equipment has greatly promoted the development of automation, and the technology of chicken farming equipment has also achieved rapid development.

Because of the sharp increase in labor costs, among the modern chicken raising equipment, the most widely used is the stacked chicken cage, which has been recognized by the majority of farmers.

Therefore, a modern-scale chicken farm cannot be separated from the use of modern intelligent chicken-raising equipment. Modern intelligent chicken-raising equipment can be said to be the core of the normal operation of modern-scale chicken farms, while fully automatic battery chicken-raising equipment is a modern layer chicken farm. Indispensable basic equipment for breeding.

The battery chicken cages are a product that solves chicken raising equipment at one time. The cascading brooding cage is a product equipment that can be used for brooding. There is no need to replace the chicken raising equipment during the chicken raising process, which avoids the stress reaction of the chicken during the transfer of the chicken, and also reduces the labor cost for the farmers. Laminated chicken cages are made of hot-dip galvanizing technology and have been treated with anti-corrosion treatment. It is necessary to pay attention to daily maintenance. The service life will be very long, and the multi-layer design can raise a large amount at the same time and does not occupy space. The cascading brooding cage can be raised in a centralized manner. There is a matching nipple drinking system, which can set different drinking water according to the size of the chicken, and the cage is convenient to wash and easy to disinfect.

The extensive use of modern chicken farming equipment has improved the efficiency of breeding, and farmers can more easily realize intensive chicken breeding because of their use.

For chicken farmers, the peak period of egg production will always be encountered at some stage of the year. Under normal circumstances, laying hens begin their pre-production period from the age of 16 weeks, and enter the peak of laying eggs at the age of 25 weeks. Whether the feeding and management status during the peak period of laying hens meets the requirements of chicken growth and egg production will have a great influence on the egg production during the entire production period. Therefore, for chicken farmers, it is very important to manage the layer chickens during production.

It is advisable to complete the laying of the laying hens before the age of 18 weeks in order to make the chickens familiar with the environment as soon as possible. In order to adapt to the increase of chicken body weight, growth of the reproductive system and the demand for calcium, the laying hens can be fed at the age of 18 weeks and the culmination at the age of 20 weeks. The most suitable temperature for laying hens is 13°C~23°C. In winter, it is better to keep above 10°C. In summer, it is better to keep below 30°C. Maintain indoor air circulation and prevent various noises. Keep the environment and feeding, drinking, lighting and other stability.

Monday, 11 October 2021 08:59

Daily maintenance of layer cages

The inside and outside of the layer cages should be clean and tidy. Ensure that all sliding surfaces, lead screws, racks, gear boxes, oil holes, etc. are free from oil, oil and air leakage at all parts, and chips, debris, and dirt around the equipment Clean up; tools, accessories, workpieces (products) should be placed neatly, pipes and lines should be organized; good lubrication, add oil or change oil on time, keep oiling, no dry friction, oil pressure is normal, oil mark is bright, oil path is unobstructed, oily The quality meets the requirements, the grease gun, the grease cup, and the linoleum are clean; follow the safe operation regulations, do not overload the equipment, and the equipment safety protection device is complete and reliable, and the unsafe factors are eliminated in time.

The daily maintenance of layer battery cages is the basic work of equipment maintenance and must be institutionalized and standardized. For the regular maintenance of equipment, work quotas and material consumption quotas should be established and assessed according to the quotas. The regular maintenance of equipment should be included in the assessment content of the workshop contract responsibility system. Periodic inspection of equipment is a planned preventive inspection. In addition to human senses, there must be certain inspection tools and instruments, which are carried out according to the periodic inspection card. Regular inspections are also called periodic inspections. The accuracy of the mechanical equipment should also be checked to determine the degree of actual accuracy of the equipment.

 

 

The maintenance of the poultry battery hen cages should be carried out in accordance with the maintenance procedures. Equipment maintenance procedures are requirements and regulations for the daily maintenance of equipment. Adhering to the equipment maintenance procedures can extend the service life of the equipment and ensure a safe and comfortable working environment. Its main content should include:

  1. The equipment should be neat, clean, firm, lubricated, anti-corrosive, safe, etc. The operation content, operation method, tools and materials used, reached standards and precautions;
  2. The parts, methods and standards for daily inspection, maintenance and regular inspection;
  3. Check and evaluate the content and methods of the degree of equipment maintenance by the operators.

 

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.

If a breeding farm wants to be industrialized, large-scale breeding is inseparable from automatic layer breeding machinery and equipment. Automatic layer breeding machinery and equipment are good assistants to assist layer farmers in the breeding work. Nowadays, the chicken breeding equipment is very good. Mechanical automation can be applied for a long time. This requires farms to carry out timely maintenance and maintenance of machinery and equipment, so as to ensure that all machinery and equipment can be maintained for the long-term normal work of the farm. The working efficiency of the chicken farm is the maintenance and maintenance of the following automatic layer breeding machinery and equipment.

 

The key of automatic layer breeding machinery and equipment includes: automatic manure cleaning machine, automatic feeding machine, automatic egg picking machine, each of which will describe the key points of maintenance of machinery and equipment.

 

 

 

1. Automatic manure cleaning machine: After the farm has applied the manure cleaning machine for a period of time, the manure removal belt will increase and increase the slack. Maintenance of rolling bearings and rubber sticks. Rolling bearings should be added with unsalted butter on time. The glue sticks should be kept tight and not loose. In addition, many farms have a roll-up of manure removal opportunities. Farms will remove manure belts in passive rolling. The position of the barrel can be leveled.

 

2. Automatic feeder: When the feeder is in use, the farm must pay attention to the fact that no items can be placed on the feeder, otherwise it will cause the motor to withstand too much force and burn the motor. The application of the feeder Make sure that the transmission chain and gears have a certain level of lubrication, otherwise the lack of lubrication will destroy the equipment. The farm should pay attention to regular maintenance. The feeder is mainly produced by skin to transport concentrated feed, so the farm should be maintained regularly Is the transmission belt intact? Is the level of tightness moderate? The control cabinet of the feeder will have a lot of dust due to dust caused by the concentrate. In the long term, it will cause short-circuit failure of the internal power circuit. The farm should carry out the removal on time.

 

3. Fully automatic egg picker: When the farm uses an automatic egg picker, it is necessary to pay attention to the detailed learning and training of the appropriate operation steps of the machine equipment. If the wrong operation is very easy to cause damage to the machine and equipment, use the egg picker After that, you must pay attention to frequent disinfection and sterilization, because some chicken excrement, feather dusters and other items containing pathogens are inevitably left in the whole process of application of machinery and equipment. If you have been using a machine that carries pathogens and does not often clean up If the equipment is available, the quality of the eggs will be reduced.

 

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.

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.