Poultry Production
Introduction
Benefits
- Increased flock data: You get detailed reports. This helps you make better daily choices.
- Automatic feeding: The equipment puts the birds first.
- Climate and ventilation control: Science-backed systems keep the air fresh and temperature perfect.
- LED lighting: The lights are set to promote the best chicken health.
- Weighing solutions: Smart scales weigh birds without stressing them out.
- Improved biosecurity: Less human contact means fewer germs spread between flocks.
- Higher profitability: You save money by cutting down on manual labor costs.
At Big Dutchman Poultry Production we’re excited to work with poultry production farmers. We have a range of products that facilitates poultry farming success. If you are just starting out, we’ve put together a guide to assist you to start your poultry farm which you can find by downloading this document. Finding innovations in a global market with constantly rising demands not only requires high levels of expertise and scientific research but also a global view. Big Dutchman has over 80 years’ experience in international poultry farming and over 55 years’ experience in local poultry farming. This experience enables us to provide local farmers with expert advice on every aspect of poultry farming.
Key aspects of poultry farming where Big Dutchman technical innovations
are increasing farm productivity include.
Poultry Feed and Water
Providing poultry with enough of the right food at the right time, combined with constantly available fresh drinking water, is key to increased production. Ensuring birds feet remain dry and healthy and reducing food and water contamination is key to healthy, happy, productive birds.
Poultry Lighting
Lighting in your poultry house is key to several aspects of poultry health and in particular lighting is crucial to promoting poultry growth, feed intake, metabolism and nutrient utilization, all of which contributes to poultry productivity.
Poultry Silos
Utilizing a Big Dutchman Silos can be used outside of the house as well as inside the house dependent on your poultry farming set up.
Poultry Climate Control
The more sanitary your house, the higher the health and well being of your chickens, ducks, geese or turkeys. Big Dutchman has a variety of exciting poultry residue solutions that increase bird health, well-being and productivity while also increasing farm profitability.
Poultry House Management
Raising birds is a sensitive business, with the slightest changes having an effect on farm profitability. Big Dutchman has taken bird centric scientific research, combined with years of experience with poultry farmers from across the globe to create innovative, user friendly poultry farming technology that increases farm productivity.
Boiler Breeder
Managing broiler breeders is a challenging task. Feeding, housing equipment, lighting, climate: all components need to be optimally attuned to each other for successful hatching egg production.
Poultry 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.
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.
Department of Labour
Big Dutchman Southern Africa recently completed a very exciting project with the Department of Labour involving a turnkey broiler solution which included: Establishing the site with civile contractors Erecting the Broiler House Building Supplying, fitting and installing broiler equipment including feeding, drinking and ventilation equipment Erecting site offices and ablutions This fantastic project is designed […]
Brits NW Project - Gielie Fourie
An exciting project in which equipment for an environmentally controlled Broiler House for our client Gielie Fourie who is situated in Brits NW Province had the Big Dutchman Southern Africa team working with dynamic Big Dutchman technology to achieve the client’s objectives. As a successful Broiler Farmer Mr Fourie worked with the Big Dutchman Southern […]
Recent Projects
George, Eastern Cape Feedmill
This Big Dutchman client is a very successful layer farmer in George in the Eastern Cape. Big Dutchman recently commissioned this feedmill and were involved in the quoting, layout, specifications and commisisoning with our colleagues from Germany. The client primarily uses this feedmill to produce feed for his own farm of 600 000 Layer Hens and […]
Winterton Feedmill
Big Dutchman recently completed a feed mill project for a client in Winterton KZN to facilitate better feed costs for his pullet rearing farm. Big Dutchman completed the design, layout, installation and commissioning for the farmers feed mill which will facilitate feed for both farms in Winterton and Mooiriver. The feed mill is running successfully […]