Tips-from-experts

Tips from experts

Lighting for poultry: what do you need to consider?

"Chickens can also perceive light through their skulls, so even a 'blind' chicken can sense the length of daylight periods and thus seasonal changes. Good...

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On-farm hatching & housing systems

On-farm hatching: Transporting incubated eggs to broiler house

"The transport of incubated eggs is of course much better than transporting chicks, you are not moving around living chicks that are sometimes without food and...

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Tips from experts

Are free range hens fed differently?

"I was talking to a free-range farmer in the neighbourhood the other day. A fox saw all his tasty chickens going into the barn, so it decided to follow them....

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Layers

Free range systems: what to take into account as a poultry farmer?

"Most hens in a free range house don't even go outside, everything they need is in the system: food, drink and a place to sleep or lay an egg. But laying hens...

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