Breeder management: the world’s first chain feeding system with the entire chain loop in just one trough
Presented by Big Dutchman, MaleChain is the world’s first chain feeding system for separate feeding of male and female broiler breeders where the entire chain loop requires just one trough. The male…
Chain feeding in breeder houses: detail improvements and new concepts
83 years ago, the Big Dutchman founders invented the automatic feed chain, which automated poultry houses the world over. The concept is still the basis for standard components in poultry feeding…
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…
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…
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…
MaleChain completes the wide range of Big Dutchman products for broiler breeder management
The management of broiler breeders is very challenging. Breeders are very sensitive birds, especially regarding feeding. Even small errors can have a negative effect on hatching egg production. The be…
Abu Dhabi: VIV MEA 2020 postponed due to the coronavirus epidemic
Please note that the VIV MEA management team has decided to postpone VIV MEA 2020 in Abu Dhabi to 31 August to 2 September 2020. This decision was taken based on situation report #39 of the WHO in…
“Dieter Hempelmann made the life of others better.”
Deeply saddened, we say goodbye to our former managing director and advisory board chairman of many years, Dieter Hempelmann. We have lost an exceptional person who had a lasting influence on our…