Laying Chicken Cage (Battery) – Fully Automatic Laying Cages

Laying Chicken Cage

The laying hen cage is considered as the heaviest part of the equipment of a laying hen farm. The costs related to equipping a poultry house are usually the most important concern of those interested in the poultry industry these days. On the other hand, the price fluctuations are high due to the many components in the cages.

Types of laying hen cages

In general, laying hen cages are divided into two forms: fully automatic layered systems (battery) and semi-automatic or traditional systems, which are also called pulpit cages.

Many chicken farmers who are planning to buy cages for their chicken farm are faced with the question of whether automatic (battery) cages or pulpit cages are better? Our answer to this question is that you should check many factors for this issue, including: the cost of cages, the capacity you have in mind for your chicken farm, the dimensions of the poultry breeding hall, labor force, air conditioning, number of floors, etc. We have examined each of these cases in the following article.

Comparison of battery cage with pulpit cage

What is an automatic battery cage?

Battery cages are called battery cages that are fully automatic in the form of floors of the same size, which are used for keeping, growing and collecting eggs. By using battery cage systems, the number of chicken storage floors can be up to 12 floors. Of course, keeping chickens at high capacity in the poultry house has special technical considerations, especially in the ventilation aspect of the poultry house, which should be taken into account.

The most important advantage of battery cages is the automaticity of the egg collection process. In this way, all the egg cages are transferred to the main hall and from there they are transferred to the packing hall in a fully mechanized way by egg carrying conveyors. Other facilities can be added to the system during this process. Among the most important features or options of this system, the following can be mentioned:

• Sorting eggs: Sorting is the division of eggs based on their dimensions and size. In most countries of the world, the price of eggs is divided based on its quality, and one of the important parameters for evaluating the quality of eggs is their size. This sensitivity is less sensitive in the Iranian egg market.
• Logo or date printing: As you have seen the date printing on some eggs in the market, the process of printing the logo to the date can be done completely mechanized in the process of transferring the eggs to the packing hall.
• Washing eggs: There are important considerations regarding washing eggs, which you must have seen in mass media. A cover is placed on the cover of the egg, which protects the egg from contamination through the pores of its shell, and this surface layer is removed after washing the eggs. Therefore, if the eggs are washed, they should be kept in closed packages to protect them from contamination.

In battery cages, all the main and vital parts, such as collecting manure and eggs, are fully mechanized and automatic, and human intervention in this process is minimized. This makes the discussion of health in such halls of high quality.

Battery cages allow you to raise more chickens in less space. This issue, if the ventilation systems are properly calculated and implemented, can save a lot in discussions related to energy consumption in Samurghdari.

KarnoTech Group is one of the importers of laying hen cages, and we will check the specifications of the Turkish gorse cages in the following.

The specifications and features of the Gorse laying cage:

Gores Company is one of the largest manufacturers of automatic laying chicken cages in the world. The origin of this company is Turkish and it has been producing and supplying battery cages for many years. Due to extensive exports to Europe, this company has followed strict European standards in its products. Therefore, it can be mentioned as one of the most high-quality cages in the world.

In Iran, this company has started many farms for many years, and the video you see at the beginning of this text is one of the farms that we built in cooperation with this company.

In general, the features of Gorse cage are listed below.

• Egg collection unit made of galvanized sheets.
• Laying cage and egg collecting tape made in Italy.
• The egg transfer line has a width of 50 cm.
• The bars of the egg transfer line are made of aluminum and covered with electrostatic paint.
• It has a lift system.
• Brushes are installed at the end of all the lines to clean the egg strips.

Features of the laying hen cage feeding system

• This system includes feeding wagons made of galvanized sheet and electrostatic colored part.
• In this system, the manure is mechanically distributed from the manure storage silos to the manure wagons by means of spiral springs located in each channel with a diameter of 125 mm.
• Feed troughs are located in the front of the cage and are made of galvanized sheet.

Features of the laying hen cage drinking system:

• Drinking system including PVC nipple pipe, nipple made in Italy and stainless-steel needle.

The V-shaped stud is under the nipple to prevent water from falling, and there is also a water tank on each floor and each row of the cage.

Features of storage and distribution systems for laying hen cages:

The storage silo consists of 6 bases, and this silo has a conical bottom made of 25 square meters of galvanized steel.

Features of the chemical fertilizer harvesting system and its conveyor belt:

The fertilizer tape is made in Italy.

The manure in the cages is cleaned and drained by means of embedded tapes that have a thickness of 1 mm.

These strips are located in the lower part of each floor and row of the cage and are pulled by the driving interface motors.

The rollers and removers installed in each floor and row discard this fertilizer.

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