Pullet rearing in a “broiler house”
German consumers demand more and more organic eggs. While 6.2 % of bird places were for organic egg production in 2010, this figure had nearly doubled by the end of November 2018, at 11.1 %. Since…
Welfare boot camp for pullets
“The first batch was great!” The Glicksman family – father Yona and his sons Benny and Moshe – from Gedera, 50 kilometres south of Tel Aviv, are perfectly happy with their new rearing aviary. The…
Pig finishing: Danish farmer hosts Open Day with social distancing
Bidding farewell to sow management, Lars Jensen from Aars in Northern Denmark has started finishing pigs on his farmstead “Kællingtandgaard” (“Lotus farm”). For this operational restructuring, the…
Hungarian Minister of Agriculture inaugurates nine new houses for breeder management
Gabor Kiszel, Minister István Nagy and Tibor Pogacsas MP (left to right) during the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new poultry houses The Hungarian company Bro-Bio-Tojás Kft., a part of the…
Broiler production: Big Dutchman presents new model of successful heat exchanger
Earny 2: view into the new heat exchanger Improving bird health, decreasing dust and odour emissions for the neighbours’ benefit and reducing the impact on both the wallet and the ecological…
How to keep trouble from brewing in the broiler house
Climate computers are no different to any other computer: we only make use of a fraction of their features. In many cases, this fraction is enough. Concentrating on three phases for the house climate…
Spain: Big Dutchman builds two turn-key poultry houses for broiler production
Big Dutchman recently built two new houses for broiler production for the company Spes 2016 S.L. in the Spanish province of Zaragoza. The turn-key buildings each have a size of 130 x 16 meters with an…
Nigeria: Big Dutchman equips pilot project for sow management
Steffen Martens (Big Dutchman, left) explaining project details to the governor. Big Dutchman is looking forward to the realisation of an important pilot project in Nigeria: Shortly before the…
Inhibiting the growth of biofilm
Hygienically clean water is essential in poultry growing. Farmers report that cleaner drinking water increase their birds’ performance, with measurably better results, and that the effect on the…
Eight state-of-the-art layer houses for pullet rearing and egg production with latest technology
The egg producer General Poultry Company (GPC) from Hamala in the north-west of Bahrain has been devoted to supplying the Kingdom of Bahrain with healthy food for the past 40 years. To ensure that…