Egg Production
Egg Production
Eggs are the cheapest form of animal protein, which has resulted in a dramatic increase in the demand for eggs. This has opened opportunities for farmers to introduce egg production as an alternate and symbiotic farming product. Regardless of the size of your farm, Big Dutchman Egg Production provides farmers with a range of products and services that support increased productivity and ultimately profitability.
With globally researched products adapted to the Southern Africa climate, infrastructure and market conditions, Big Dutchman Egg Production provides farmers with quality egg production equipment and technologies supported by a team of expert technicians.
Benefits
- • Animal friendly systems that promote hen health, well-being and
productivity
• Organic, barn and free-range egg production systems
• Bird centric ventilation, climate and lighting solutions
• Sophisticated clean water and food supply
- • Automated manure removal for optimal hygiene
• Incorporated animal behaviour technology to ensure early nest
adoption
• Automated egg collection and protection systems
- • Animal friendly systems that promote hen health, well-being and productivity
• Organic, barn and free-range egg production systems
• Bird centric ventilation, climate and lighting solutions
• Sophisticated clean water and food supply - • Automated manure removal for optimal hygiene
• Incorporated animal behaviour technology to ensure early nest adoption
• Automated egg collection and protection systems
Big Dutchman Southern Africa has been assisting farmers with world-class, scientific and intuitive egg production equipment since 1966. With global and local experience in every aspect of egg production, farmers who work with
Big Dutchman have experienced increased profitability and efficiencies. In egg production, there are 6 key aspects that affect hen productivity and longevity. Big Dutchman egg production equipment empowers farmers with information, animal-centric solutions and scientific systems that reduce animal stress.
Pullet Rearing
Based on egg production global research, the success of hens and increased laying time is strongly dependent on their familiarity and comfort levels with their environment.
Raising and training laying pullets from day-old chicks for their life in the hen house increases well-being, longevity and reduces the hen stress experienced when moving pullets from a pullet rearing house to a hen house.
Hen Housing
As an innovator in hen housing, Big Dutchman has a wide range of hen housing solutions available. Key to each housing solution is 4 key aspects:
- • Bird wellness which includes feed, clean water and enough
space for birds to move, perch, scratch and generally behave as
happy chickens should. - • Egg collection and safety.
- • Hygiene and climate control and bio-security.
- • Hen productivity.
Animal Friendly Aviaries
Big Dutchman animal friendly aviaries provides birds with a tiered nesting system in which movement, perching and scratching are all available to the birds at any time.
With food and water lines situated just outside nesting areas, birds naturally settle in the nesting areas where egg belts safely carry laid eggs away and manure belts remove most of the manure in the house.
Enriched Colony Systems
Big Dutchman’s Enriched Colony System enables egg production farmers to control smaller groups of hens in a tiered system that enables birds to act out their normal behaviour with dedicated nesting, feed, drinking, perching and scratching areas.
Flexible nest curtains allow for undisturbed laying while egg belts safely transport the eggs out of the house.
Egg Production
Other than the health and wellness of hens, key to a profitable egg production farm is safely transporting, cleaning and packaging eggs for retail. Big Dutchman has done all the hard work, with an automated egg collection system which is flexible, efficient and gentle on eggs.
Big Farm Net
Big Farm Net is a data driven technology that links the most important farming data in your egg production houses to an app installed on your phone, tablet or pc. This data provides you with an overview of the most important information on your egg production houses, your birds and your input costs such as feed.
Several key areas differentiate Big Dutchman Egg Production in the market. By engaging farmers on the full production process including house design, building and fitting, feed mill integration and solar energy provision, Big Dutchman Egg Production is able to support farmers through globally researched and locally adapted technologies.
Solar for Egg Production Farms
Ensuring your egg production houses have continuous ventilation, food, water, temperature control and manure removal is critical to the health, wellness and productivity of your birds.
Big Dutchman Solar provides egg production farmers with solar solutions that seamlessly tie in to your current power set up, providing back up power when grid power is unreliable.
Egg Production Buildings
The set-up of your egg production house affects heating and cooling costs, ventilation efficiency, feed and water distribution and manure removal. Big Dutchman Buildings provide egg farmers with a turnkey egg production house, complete with energy efficiencies, state-of-the-art egg production farming equipment, and, when required, technology for collated data analysis through Big Farm Net.
Egg Production Buildings
The set-up of your egg production house affects heating and cooling costs, ventilation efficiency, feed and water distribution and manure removal. Big Dutchman Buildings provide egg farmers with a turnkey egg production house, complete with energy efficiencies, state-of-the-art egg production farming equipment, and, when required, technology for collated data analysis through Big Farm Net.
Feed Mills for Egg Production Efficacy
Managing the cost of feed on your egg farm is one of the most effective ways of increasing farm profitability. Running your own feed mill enables you to determine the composition of your feed, manage the quality of the feed and reduce reliance on external feed suppliers who may increase the price or be unreliable with feed deliveries.
Find out more about installing a Egg Production Feed Mill on your farm.
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