Basic information
Poultry products are among the most consumed foods in all part of the world. When raising chickens, the battery cage has played a great role. It not only saves manpower and material resources, but also reduces the contact between people and chickens. When using it, use it according to the performance of the equipment
The use of cage equipment allows the chickens to have enough feeding and drinking places. Ensure that every chicken can get reasonable drinking and eating. The uniformity of the flock is better. Reduce the labor intensity of farmers. The chicken is in the cage, growing and producing. It is more convenient for farmers to manage chickens, including the maintenance of the hygienic environment inside the chicken house. The use of cages has not only increased the number of breeding. At the same time, labor intensity is also reduced
The main advantages of battery cages for over alternative husbandry systems are, increased hygiene resulting in a much lower incidence of diseases in which the infectious agent is spread through the droppings, small group size resulting in a low incidence of social friction, ease of management, absence of litter problems, better working conditions, and the last a much lower cost of production
The poultry farmer will simply do the job of pouring food and water in the designated areas, cleaning the faeces that drop and packing the eggs. This reduces stress for the farmer and the need to employ many workers for poultry farms will be minimized. In the long run, poultry farming will be more rewarding for the poultry workers
Product description
A battery cage for poultry is a small metal wire cage. This battery cage for poultry is the most commonly arranged in three rows of identical small metal wire cages connected together like cells, hence the name. Further, these rows are stacked on top of one another. This formation is called tier cage
In this housing system, hens have access to automatic management controlled feed and water, further, the wire cage floor of the battery cage for poultry is sloped so that eggs roll down to the egg tray for easy automated collection. Similarly, hens’ droppings fall through the wire cage floor either onto a conveyor belt or into a pit for disposal. While the space provided for each hen varies across each farm, to put things into perspective, the space available to each hen in a battery cage for poultry is often described as less than the size of a sheet of A4 paper
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Features
1. This system involves rearing of poultry on raised wire netting floor in smaller compartments, called cages, either fitted with stands on floor of house or hanged from the roof
2. It has been proved very efficient for laying operations, right from day old to till disposal
3. At present, 75% of commercial layers in the world are kept in cages
4. Feeders and water troughs are attached to cages from outside except nipple drinker, for which pipeline is installed through or above cages
5. Auto operated feeding trolleys and egg collection belts can also be used in this rearing system
6. The droppings are either collected in trays underneath cages or on belts or on the floor or deep pit under cages, depending on type of cages
Advantages of automatic battery cage
1. It helps to boosts the health of the chickens
A lot of poultry farmers do not get healthy results from their chicken rearing because they have ignored the use of battery cages. Battery cages are very good means of accommodating your chickens in healthy conditions that will boost their reproduction, original battery cages are not mere cages with wire mesh floor and essential heating elements for brooding chickens. Quality and superior battery cages are designed to outweigh an ordinary wire mesh cage. The wire floor is designed to allow manure go through it, taking it away from the chickens surroundings and eventually minimizing the risks of manure-borne diseases. This will keep the chickens healthy and make chicken rearing a task worthwhile for the poultry farmer
2. It increases egg production rate
A chicken that is healthy will significantly become more productive than chickens reared in environments that do not boost their health. Enriched battery cages increase the potential of egg production in chickens. In fact, recent estimations reveal that sixty percent of eggs used in products such as mayonnaise, sandwiches and cakes are from chickens reared in battery cages. This reveals that chickens have more tendencies to produce eggs in battery cages compared to other rearing systems. It is more advisable to use battery cages to aid egg production
3. It provides qualitative feeding for the chickens
The battery cage system makes feeding for chickens a habitual process which connotes more care for the chickens. This is because the chickens are fed through a long bisected metal or plastic pipe and water is served to them with overhead nipple systems which are set before the chickens. This makes it easy for the poultry farmer to care for the chickens with frequent and adequate food and water
4. It reduces the cost of labour
Battery cage reduces labour by the poultry farmer. This is because the chickens are well-organized and conducted to be in rows with several facilities for their feeding, carriers of their faeces droppings adequately positioned and the eggs rolling to the appropriate places designed in the battery cages
5. It comprises of feeders that minimizes feed spillage
Battery cages make it easy for poultry farmers to care adequately for their chickens, despite this dire need to take care of the chickens, battery cages help the poultry farmer to minimize feed spillage when feeding chickens.It is easy to minimize feed spillage with battery cages because they are designed with standard accessories for holding food and water, especially the amount required for feeding the chickens daily. This disallows any form of feed spillage and wastage. Instead of feed spillage, the chickens keep feeding on the required amount of food specifically provided in front of them
6. It provides high capacity for accommodation
Modern battery cages have high capacity to accommodate a larger number of chickens within a limited space.That means, battery cages will save you cost in construction and help you maximize the use of whatever space you have available. Therefore, it is rewarding to invest in poultry farming using poultry battery cages with high capacity for accommodation
7. The cage is affordable, durable and suitable
Poultry battery cages are quite affordable for beginners and experienced poultry farmers who need to give this method of rearing chickens a trial. It costs less and is more effective and efficient.Besides being affordable, poultry battery cages are durable because they have wire mesh made of galvanized iron which keeps them from rusting and makes them last for a lengthy period of time. It is not just durable but suitable for all egg laying chicken types such as breeders, layers, point of lay and point-of-cage chickens
8. It provides and save space
Farmers having a challenge of inadequate space should consider using poultry cages. A poultry cage allows higher stocking densities even where there is low floor space. You could double or triple your capacity of your pen with the help of cages. Furthermore, if you are interested in increasing or extending your flock size without constructing new pen houses, then getting cages is the best solution
9. It ensure high quality poultry products
Rearing conditions always have an effect on chickens and their end-product quality. These conditions include air flow, sunshine and temperature. With cages, these conditions can be rightly conditioned to facilitate rapid growth of your birds and less exposure to diseases pathogens. Battery cages make automated feeding and drinking system possible. Birds can be provided with clean, fresh water through nipple drinkers, thus preventing contamination and wastage of water. Clean eggs can be collected at any time with less incidence of egg cracks or egg eating. A farmer that incorporates poultry cages into his farm under proper management should be getting more profits
10. It has fewer incidences of diseases or infections
It is impossible for chickens to move around when kept in cages and this reduces the possibility of becoming infected with diseases due to interaction with sick birds. Furthermore, the rate of disease transmission is reduced, giving a farmer the sufficient time to handle any outbreak. Additionally, the birds don’t have access to their faeces, thus reducing contamination and transmission of diseases within the flock and poultry house
Precaution
1. Check the closed type of the house
If you want to use the fan to get a good ventilation effect, then you must ensure that the tightness of the house is good, that is to say, the effective ventilation of the fan is that the house must be kept tight. The farmer can carry out the airtight inspection before ventilation. If it is found that there is air leakage, it should be timely added, especially the front and rear doors of the chicken house and the place around the water curtain equipment
2. Ensure the matching of the number of flocks and ventilation
Different wind turbines use different wind speeds and ventilations, and should be calculated according to the number of chickens. Therefore, when installing fans, farmers should also the area of the house and the number of chickens to choose the number of fans installed
3. Observe the flock when ventilating
When using the fan of the chicken equipment to ventilate the chicken, the farmer should pay attention to not only seeing whether the ventilation device is not set up properly and effectively or can it look at the display temperature on the thermostat, the farmers need to judge according to the somatosensory temperature of the flock and the performance of the flock. It is generally possible to understand the comfort level of the flock through various aspects such as feeding, drinking water and mental state
4. The fan should match the water curtain
During hot season, most farmers will use the fan curtain to cooperate with the ventilation and cooling of the house, but in order to get effective ventilation and cooling, it is necessary to pay attention to the number of curtains and fans, matching are also possible. In addition, the farmer should also pay attention to the fact that the cold wind at the front curtain of the chicken house cannot be directly blown to the chickens. Otherwise, the chickens may react to cold stress. The static pressure in the house must be within the standard range. Too large to avoid damage to the ventilation equipment
5. Avoid the spillage of manure in the poultry house
Always ensure that that the manure from the chickens are not spilled all over the poultry house, in other not to infect the chickens with the nitrogenous substance and other dangerous components in the manure which can infect the chickens thereby causing them to fall sick
Principles
1. Poultry house should be located away from residential and industrial area
2. It should have proper road facilities
3. It should have the basic amenities like water and electricity
4. Availability of farm labourers at relatively cheaper wages
5. Poultry house should be located in an elevated area and there should not be any water-logging
6. It should have proper ventilation
7. Layout should not allow visitors or outside vehicles near the sheds
8. The sheds should be so located that the fresh air first passes through the brooder shed, followed by grower and layer sheds. This will prevent the spread of diseases from layer houses to brooder house
9. There should be a minimum distance of 50-100 feet between chick and grower shed and the distance between grower and layer sheds should be of minimum 100 metre
10. The egg store room, office room and the feed store room should be located near entrance to minimize the movement of people around the poultry sheds
11. The disposal pit and sick room should be constructed only at the extreme end of the site
Our services
1. We provide you with professional guidance and design in all of our poultry farm equipment
2. We offer excellent services in all our equipment
3. We give customers detailed information on the product they want to buy
4. We give guideline to our first time customer’s on how to go about their poultry farm
5. After purchasing our poultry equipment, we do follow up on our customers about the equipment they purchased
6. We offer the detailed information about our product and services
7. We offer the best equipment which meets our customer’s every requirement
8. We have long time and rich experience on the products manufacturing. If any machine operation questions after sales, we will reply you within 24 hours with solution. And customers can be rest assured
Frequently ask questions
Q: What are the precautionary measures to put in place in a battery cage?
A: The precautionary measure you can carry out in a battery cage is to ensure that the chickens do not come in contact with their manure and there should be no spillage of feed all over the cage in other not to draw the attention of other pests or insects such as ants, rats and cockroach
Q: What are the main benefits of using a battery cage in my poultry?
A: Firstly, it saves the cost of labour, it has a high tendency of egg production, it does not give room to carry out the act of cannibalism and lastly it provides proper ventilation for the chickens
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