Explore Egg Production the Big Dutchman Way
Traditional, barn, free-range or organic – a profitable egg production farm is a synergy amongst the building, equipment, management, environment, and support services. At Big Dutchman, our know-how along with over a half a century of experience on-the-ground results in our one-stop solutions being purpose-build, seamless and comprehensive.
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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.
Big Dutchman is passionate about farm profitability as well as animal well-being and productivity. Raising pullets instead of buying pullets from a pullet farm enables farmers to better control early nutrition, hygiene and access to clean water, all of which plays a vital role in the hen’s adult health.
Big Dutchman pullet rearing houses provide farmers with the following exciting benefits:
• Birds are raised within a similar environment to the laying aviary which reduces their stress, increases their longevity once they move to the aviary and gives them an ideal start into the laying period.
• Automated feed and water systems ensure pullets get maximum nutrition from day 1 resulting in stronger, healthier birds.
• Belt residue removal along with automated ventilation and climate control keeps pullets healthy and the aviary hygienic.
• Bird centric automatic weighing provides critical information about pullet health while keeping the birds stress free.
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.
Big Dutchman’s animal friendly aviaries for regular and free-range egg production, make the most of any house area with the entire house floor being utilised for scratching and additional perches located at the top of the nesting tiers to encourage bird movement.
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.
Excellent house hygiene conditions and comfort along with high yields make Big Dutchman Enriched Colony System a go to for profitable egg production.
When it comes to carefully and safely transporting eggs from the hen house into their packaging, Big Dutchman has thought of every possible nuance.
Egg transport starts with collecting the eggs from the nests. Big Dutchman’s variety of egg collection solutions ensures the gentle handling of eggs, reliability and easy handling and includes the following additional benefits:
• Space efficiency
• Minimal human interaction with the eggs
• Inbuilt cleaning and sorting capacity
• Simple assembly and maintenance
• Can be retrofitted to a variety of hen house systems.
Once the eggs have been collected from the hen house Big Dutchman uses a variety of belts to gently but efficiently move the eggs to the Big Dutchman egg cleaning units. These units gently and efficiently clean the eggs using a combination of ultrasound, warm water and a cleaning solution.
Finally, Big Dutchman’s egg count technology counts every single egg providing valuable data on production before eggs are transported to the packer..
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.
Key information available to you includes:
• Ventilation
• Temperature
• Humidity
• CO2 levels
• Water Consumption
• Food Consumption
• Bird Weight
• Mortality Rate
• Food Conversion
• Silo Content Forecasts
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. Find out more about Big Dutchman Solar by clicking here.
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.
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.
