how to choose right cages for your chickens?

If you want to make chickens high yield and make your chickens healthy, then choose a comfortable chicken cage is also important, then how to choose chicken cage? We share the chicken cage classification and the specific requirements of the selection of chicken cage.

Chicken cage can be divided into four kinds, namely: breeding cage, Tsai Kei Lung, egg cage, brood cage.

Breeding cages

Cage is generally used in chickens 41 to 140 days of age, are 3 layers. Height of 1.7-1.8 meters, each single cage length of 800 mm, 400 mm high, deep 420 mm. Cage bottom mesh 20-40 mm, cage top, side, rear mesh diameter of 25 mm, cage door width 140-150 mm, 3-4 layers overlap, each single cage can be tolerated into a young 7-15.

broiler cage

The broiler cage is a three-dimensional cage, cage structure and breeding density and breeding cage similar, and some farms using flat net feeding effect is also very good.

Egg laying cage

Canned eggs are generally used in laying hens from 141 days to the end of the egg, each with a single cage length of 400 mm, a depth of 450 mm, a height of 450 mm, a height of 380 mm and a cage inclination of 7.5 degrees. Open before the cage. Cage mesh spacing by 22 mm, latitude spacing 60 mm, the top side, rear mesh aperture of the larger range, can be flexible to master, but the side of the hole diameter is best for the high 25-30 mm, width 40-50 mm, Because this kind of cell can prevent the chicken between the chicken pecking, each single cage can raise 3-4 chicken, cage body height of 1.7 meters wide 210-240 mm wide.

Battery cage

Battery cage are generally used for chicks 140 days before the use of the general use of 3-4 layers of overlapping cage, the total length of the size of the depending on the size of the cage, the foot of the foot height of 100-150 mm, each cage cage length of 700 -1000 mm, cage height 300-400 mm, cage depth 400-500 mm. The mesh of the cage is rectangular or square, the diameter of thebottom net is 12.5 mm, the diameter of the side net and the top net is 25 mm, the cage door should be located in front, and the cage clearance is adjustable in the range of 20-35 mm Can be about 30 chicks, the overall width of 1.6-1.7 meters.

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