Layer Chicken Farms - Poultry Farming Strategies of Layers and Broilers

Battery cages for chickens are now a popular form of poultry farming. Generally 3 or 4-tier cages are assembled and arranged. High stocking density and high utilization rate of poultry farms. If the number of tiers is higher than 5 tiers, the hygiene of the chicken house is difficult to control. And the requirements for the chicken farm are higher. Therefore, there are generally no more than 5 tiers of chicken battery cages without automation.

 

Chicken Laying Cages for Sale

Automatic egg layer cages include A type and H type. The utilization rate of the chicken house is high, and the stocking density per unit area is high. The battery cage is suitable for 3-4 tiers. The egg layer cages is made of high quality mild steel with hot dip galvanized surface. They have a lifespan of up to 20 years.

Whether you have a large chicken farm or a small chicken farm, we can provide you with a complete solution and have commercial chicken cages.

 

 

What is the relationship between the nutrients required for chicken cages to raise chickens?

There are dozens of nutrients required for raising chickens in egg layer cages, and there are various relationships between them. Chickens, like other livestock and poultry, require regular intake of certain nutrients in order to sustain life, grow and lay eggs. In order to maintain body temperature or perform various physiological activities and sports, adult chickens must constantly consume substances in the body.

 

What Nutrients Do Chickens Need?

The growth and development of chicks, the laying of eggs by hens, and the required substances all come from feed, whether it is flat-raised chickens or chickens raised in laying hens. For example: moisture, crude protein, carbohydrates, crude fat, minerals, vitamins, etc.

 

The above is the relationship between chicken layer cages and chicken nutrition shared by poultry equipment manufacturers. I hope the content shared is helpful to poultry farming friends. For more information on poultry farming, please follow the website.

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.

Studies have shown that within a certain range, the content of some trace components in eggs is significantly affected by chicken feed. The content of nutrients varies, which affects the quality and size of the eggs.

Protein and amino acid levels in feed, protein intake is the main nutritional factor that affects egg size. Adjusting the protein level of the diet can change the size of the egg. Each one increase or decrease in dietary protein levels, such as from 16% to 17% or 15%, can increase or decrease the weight of the egg by approximately 1.2 grams. In practice, it is best not to increase or decrease the protein by more than 1 percentage point each time. Amino acid nutrition is the essence of protein nutrition.

The effect of dietary energy levels on egg weight is mainly through feed intake. If the daily energy intake of layer hens is lower than the lower limit of the above values, the egg production and egg weight will be affected, and thus affect the protein's Food intake (or protein savings) allows hens to have higher protein levels for maintenance, egg production and increased egg weight.

Essential fatty acids play an important role in the factors that affect egg weight. Linoleic acid is involved in fat metabolism, so it affects the size of the egg through its effect on the yolk.

Wednesday, 26 December 2018 03:03

Suggestions for building a chicken house

The chicken house has two types: open house (common house) and closed house.

The common form of open house is that there are walls on all sides, large windows on the south wall and small windows on the north wall. All or most of these houses are naturally ventilated and naturally lit, and the temperature and humidity in the house vary substantially with the seasons. Ventilation and lighting equipment is often required in this type of house to supplement the lack of ventilation and lighting under natural conditions.

Closed house is also known as a windowless house. The roof of the chicken house is well insulated from the four walls, and there is no window on all sides. The interior environment is adjusted by manual or instrument control. Artificial ventilation and light are used in the house to control the temperature, humidity and air composition of the house by changing the amount of ventilation.

So what are the structural requirements of the various parts of the house?

The foundation should be deep and strong. The floor of the chicken house should be 20~30 cm higher than the outside, moisture-proof, flat, easy to clean and disinfect.

The material with good thermal insulation effect is selected, and the heat insulation performance is good, which can protect poultry farming equipment.

Roof: In addition to the single-sloping roof of the chicken house with a small span, the double-slope type is generally used.

Tuesday, 29 January 2019 08:36

Daily maintenance of laying hens

The inside and outside of the egg cage are neat and tidy. It is necessary to ensure that there are no oil on each sliding surface, screw, rack, gear box, oil hole, etc., no oil leakage or air leakage in all parts, and chips, debris and dirt around the equipment. Clean and clean; tools, accessories, workpieces (products) should be placed neatly, pipes and lines should be organized; lubricated and oiled or oil changed on time, continuous oil, no dry friction, normal oil pressure, bright oil mark, smooth oil passage, oil The quality meets the requirements, the oil gun, oil cup and linoleum are clean; the safety operation rules are observed, the equipment is not overloaded, the safety protection device of the equipment is complete and reliable, and the unsafe factors are eliminated in time.

 

The daily maintenance of the egg cage 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 shall be established, and assessment shall be carried out according to the quota. The regular maintenance work of equipment shall be included in the assessment content of the workshop contract responsibility system. Regular inspection of equipment is a planned preventive inspection. In addition to the human senses, the inspection methods must also have certain inspection tools and instruments. The inspections are carried out according to regular inspection cards. Regular inspections are also called periodic inspections. The mechanical equipment should also be checked for accuracy to determine the degree of accuracy of the equipment.

 

 

 

Layer chicken cages maintenance should be carried out in accordance with maintenance procedures. Equipment maintenance procedures are requirements and regulations for routine maintenance of equipment. Persistence in equipment maintenance procedures can extend equipment life and ensure a safe and comfortable working environment. Its main content should include:

 

1. The equipment should be neat, clean, sturdy, lubricated, anti-corrosive, safe, etc., the working content, working methods, tools and materials used, standards and precautions;

 

2. The parts, methods and standards for daily inspection and maintenance and regular inspection;

 

3. Check and assess the content and methods of operating workers to maintain equipment.

 

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.

 

Now caged laying hens have become the first choice for farmers. But for many novice farmers who raise chickens peacefully, they have this question. Is it that the cost of raising chickens with automated chicken farming equipment is high?

 

The answer is that the cost of breeding will be high. The following will introduce why high-cost farmers are still willing to use it.

 

First of all, the chicken cage equipment adopts a multi-layer cage method. The chicken coop has three, four or more layers. Therefore, farmers using chicken cages can raise three, four times or even more laying hens. Cage raising increases the utilization of chicken house area. As the number of chicken houses increases, so does the income of farmers.

 

 

Multi-layer chicken cages raise chickens. The area above the chicken coop is also effectively used. And the feces produced by the chickens in the cage can fall on the ground or on the conveyor belt. The flocks will not come into contact with feces. This reduces the number of fecal infections. This allows the chickens to lay eggs earlier.

 

Laying hens are raised in chicken cages. Laying broilers live in chicken coops for a long time. The stocking density is relatively large, so there is very little space for chicken activities. If the activity of broilers is less, the energy consumption will be reduced, and the feed required will be reduced. Cage can effectively save more than 20% of feed cost.

 

Farmers use chicken farming equipment to raise chickens. It is very convenient to drink and feed. Farmers can save a lot of space to manage the flock and deal with other things. Improve the labor efficiency of farmers.

 

The quality of the chicken coop is good. Chicken farming equipment can be used for more than ten years. Farmers choose the hot-dip galvanizing process when buying. Buy duplex, anti-aging. Numerous batches of chickens can be raised.

Now that science and technology are advanced, people's breeding is becoming more and more standardized, and more and more chickens are raised using poultry chicken raising equipment. So how should we manage the use of battery hen cages before laying eggs?

First of all, we must feed scientifically, do not increase or decrease the feed at will. The main reason for the change of feed for laying hens is that the production chickens need calcium supplementation.

If calcium is supplemented too early, the growing chicken will not have the absorption function. If calcium supplementation is too late, it may cause poor egg shell quality. Some farmers are always blindly confident and increase or decrease feed at will. This may cause the egg production to not become a scientific curve and affect the income of farmers. Therefore, farmers must insist on scientific feed feeding.

Secondly, scientifically increase the light time. After entering the laying period, the light time should be extended in the chicken house, and the light time should be gradually increased according to the weight of the laying hens from 18 weeks to 20 weeks of age. After the longest exposure time is 15-16 hours, it remains unchanged. Some farmers always want to advance the egg laying time and increase the light time at will, which may affect the laying cycle, and the gains outweigh the losses. Therefore, farmers must follow the scientific rules and gradually increase the light time.

Finally, maintaining a quiet environment in the chicken house is crucial. As we all know, the harsh noise of chickens, especially the laying hens, must keep the chicken house quiet to avoid excessive reactions. After laying the first two eggs, the laying hens are extremely excited, and even behave a little nervously or move abnormally. At this time, it is necessary to keep the chicken house as quiet as possible to avoid disturbing the laying cycle.

The above is the summary of how the layer cages should be managed before the laying hens lay eggs. Hope that the farmers can manage the chicken coop well.