The advantages and precaution of automatic battery cage design for poultry layer farm
Time : 2006-09-06

Basic information

When you want to venture at commercial chicken rearing, whether you are raising chickens as meat birds or as layers, you need to consider what kind of housing you are putting them in as this is an essential factor to consider as it determines the end products or result of one’s plan. While there are several different types of situations for hobby chickens, there are only a few types of housing for commercial poultry production. Being familiar with these systems and their benefits helps you make a solid decision when you are laying out your production area. Poultry cages are made of solid metal or mesh metal, and the sloped floor allows waste and eggs to roll and drop through to a conveyor belt. The water is provided through an overhead system, and food is supplied through a long trough that runs along the front of each cage. These poultry houses are typically arranged back to back, allowing for an increased number of animals caged per square foot of the space

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Product description

Automatic battery cages are a housing system used for various animal production methods, but primarily for egg laying hens. The name arises from the arrangement of rows and columns of identical cages connected, in a unit, as in an artillery battery. Although the term is usually applied to poultry farming, similar cage systems are used for other animals. Battery cages have generated controversy between advocates for animal welfare and industrial producers. What differentiates the chicken battery cage from most other cages is that its floors slope from back to front. The reason for this is so that eggs can roll from the back to the front of the cage for easy collection. A lot of experts recommend the chicken battery cage, especially for egg production in a layer’s poultry farm. If you are in the business of egg production or hatching, then you will agree with me that a layer bird is the essence of poultry farming. After going through the chick stage safeguarding your birds with chick cages. Then, what followed was accomplishing a splendid grower stage of uniform growth in grower cages. By now, the birds are ripe to start laying their golden eggs. It is at this stage of your poultry farming that you will see the efforts you invested in your chicks and grower birds. You will start making money from your poultry business as the birds mature and start laying eggs


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1. Steel structure poultry house, opening type for hot countries and close type for cool countries

2. Poultry hatching equipment’s capacity of eggs up to 120,000+ to be hatching house

3. Chicken rearing cage and equipment of layer, day old chicken, brooder, broiler and chicken parents

4. Chicken feed processing equipment from feed crushing and mixing to stock to feeding chicken

5. Paper egg tray manufacturing equipment, the output from 1000 trays per hour to 6000 trays per hour

6. Egg processing equipment from automatic egg collection to packing egg to trays

7. Chicken slaughtering equipment from slaughter to vacuum package

8. Chicken manure cleaning and drying equipment to control the water content in chicken manure between 10% and 40%

9. Other poultry farm equipment are coming soon...

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Types in terms of shape

Its biggest advantage is increasing egg production to 98%. Besides that, with the layer battery cage, it is very easy to handle chicken waste and reduce disease transmission.  There are two types of layers poultry cage

1. A type of layers poultry cage: The A type of battery cages can be 3-4 tiers high

2. H type of layers chicken battery cage: This type of cage can have up to 3-8 tiers. Four main types of chicken cage systems exist based on the number of layers the cages have


Types in terms of sizes

1. The single layer battery cage. This type of cage has only one layer. At best, you can only connect another set of cages parallel to this one. So, what you will have been two cages facing opposite sides

2. Double deck poultry cage. As the name implies, this has two decks. One at the top and the second row on the bottom of the cage. With this cage system, you can save more space

3. Triple layers cage system. The triple layers cage system provides even more space for you to keep more birds. With this cage system, you can have about three times as many birds on your poultry farm

4. Four tier chicken cage. For ease of operation and management, the four deck chicken cage system is the highest for this category. At this height, workers can still easily pick up eggs and do other daily activities without stressing a muscle. With four layers available for your birds, you can produce more chickens and eggs in this system. It is a good option if you want to keep a very large quantity of birds but lack enough space to keep them

5. Flat deck poultry cage system. The flat deck poultry cage system is just like the single layer battery cage.  The only difference this time is that the flat deck cage has more parallel lines of cages than the single layer. Because of the arrangement of the battery cages in this system, workers cannot walk between cages to pick eggs. As a result, the egg collection method for this system is automated


Advantages of automatic battery cage

1. Battery cages boosts the health of the chickens

Many 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 health and make chicken rearing a task worthwhile for the poultry farmer

2. Increases egg production

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, and 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. 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. Chicken are well catered for in battery cages and this makes them healthier and more productive

4. Low 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 in designed the battery cages. Everything is well organized. 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

5. Poultry Battery cages have feeders that minimize 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. 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. Many A type poultry battery cages can accommodate between 96 and 160 chickens or more per unit, depending on the size (tier) and model you buy. Therefore, it is rewarding to invest in poultry farming using poultry battery cages with high capacity for accommodation

7. Affordable, durable and suitable for all egg-laying chicken types

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. It is therefore advisable for poultry farmers to consider using the modern poultry battery cages lively livestock keeping


Purpose

The system helps you keep birds within a small space and allows very limited movement. This makes the chickens conserve their energy and hence enjoy an increase in production level

1. It provides comfort and stability for the birds

2. Feeds are less consumed, and it avoids wastage

3. Records keeping of individual egg production and culling of poor layers are made easier

4. A farmer can easily do a stock count of the chickens

5. It is easier to care for pullets

6. It is much easier to evacuate the waste in the battery cage system.  Faeces drop through to the floor or metal trays which are cleaned regularly

7. It is easier to operate


Precaution

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 in an elevated area and there should not be any waterlogging

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 storeroom, office room and the feed storeroom should be located near entrance to minimize the movement of people around the poultry sheds


Importance

1. Minimum floor space is needed

2. High productivity

3. Less feed wastage

4. Better feed efficiency

5. Protection from internal parasites and soil borne illnesses.

6. Sick and unproductive birds can be easily identified and eliminated

7. Clean eggs production

8. Vices like egg eating, pecking is minimal


Why you should choose our company

1. We offer the best services as regards battery cages

2. Our company products’ quality are incomparable

3. We deliver to time to our customers’ location

4. We have local branches all around the globe


Our services

1. We deliver goods directly to customer’s location within 24hours

2. We give accurate guide to poultry beginners

3. We enlighten our customers on how to maintain our products for long lasting use

4. Our company have installer team that install our cages and equipment

5. We have engineers that help our customers to build suitable poultry house


Frequently ask questions

Q: Which method of rearing layers is the best?

A: Without any doubt, battery cages remain the best method of rearing layer birds.

Q: Where can I get battery cages in Nigeria?

A: Our Company is the number one supplier of battery cage in Nigeria and its environment

Q: What is the reason for raising layers on cage?

A: It increases birds’ productivity

Q: Do I need to build a poultry house before I install cages?

A: Yes, It is important to do that

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