Barn egg production | Israeli farmers select a welfare aviary system from Germany
The moshav Bnei Netzarim in the north-west of Israel believes in modern and animal-friendly egg production. The residents of the cooperative agricultural settlement have proved this with a new house…
Turnkey farm project for egg production in Bahrain
Providing the growing population in the Middle East and Africa with safe food is a great challenge. With the construction of their new turnkey farm, General Poultry Company B.S.C. (GPC) is making a…
Pig production | Big Dutchman equips 40 pig houses
Bulgarians love pork. The country’s pig production figures, however, do not reflect this preference: similar to other countries of the former Eastern Bloc, Bulgaria’s number of pigs took a nosedive…
Free range egg production: farmer starts a new production branch
Reinhard Schneeberger from the German municipality of Niedermurach in Bavaria recently started producing organic free range eggs in a new and modern poultry house. Two strictly separated groups of…
AGILO welfare housing equipment: sows and piglets enjoy living in a shared house
Farmer Florian Hoenmans-Leurs keeps his sows and their piglets in groups; all housing equipment stands for animal welfare and was purchased from Big Dutchman. In an interview full of information, the…
Egg production: newcomer named Germany’s best poultry manager 2022
In 2019, Holger Hogt from Itterbeck in the northwest of Germany decided to switch from pig production to egg production. Just three years later, in 2022, the Big Dutchman customer scored a podium…
Big Dutchman equips welfare barn for 36,000 organic layers with aviary system and anti-mite innovation
Mites love laying hens – a fact which poultry managers hate, because parasites in the poultry house have a negative effect on animal welfare. Additionally, affected hens lay fewer eggs. Ditte and…
A barn with a view: keeping layers at an altitude of 1,573 metres
Laying eggs where others go on holiday: at an altitude of idyllic 1,537 metres, Luca Crazzolara recently refurbished his old cow barn into a modern poultry house, including a range for the hens. All…
New animal welfare barn with Big Dutchman equipment in Bavaria
The Greppmair family from Aichach in Bavaria, Germany, recently started producing eggs and built a very impressive, new poultry house consisting of two compartments. During the day, the 6,000 hens can…
“Excellent production results and simple operation speak for Natura Step”
The customer is king! That’s why the family-owned Spanish company Avícola Tratante has been expanding its product range since 2018, offering not only eggs produced in enriched colony systems, free…