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From family farms to commercial farms, we supply them all – anywhere in the world. For ten thousands of farmers Big Dutchman is THE supplier for poultry equipment of any kind. And it makes no difference whether the farm is raising ten thousand, twenty thousand, two hundred thousand or two million birds.

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Poultry growing becomes egg production unit with 60,000 hens

Egg production on two levels with modern poultry systems

28/03/2011

Alfons Diekmann and his wife are pleased with the decorative key Big Dutchman managing director Bernd Kuhlencord (left) and sales representative Christian Apeler (right) handed over for the new poultry house.
Everything but ordinary: Barn egg production on two levels
Barn egg production in a NATURA60 poultry system: The system provides easy access as every second (inspection) aisle of the poultry house remains free of litter, hens and manure.
Barn egg production with NATURA60 poultry system
From the distributing centre, all four house units can be checked and controlled, here shown by Thorsten (left) and Arndt Diekmann.

The company Loher Landei GmbH, which is managed by Alfons Diekmann from Damme in Lower Saxony, Northern Germany, and his sons Thorsten and Arndt, recently inaugurated a new site for barn egg production in aviary systems: where there used to be a poultry growing facility now stand two modern poultry sheds with a total of 60,000 bird places. The most remarkable feature of the new buildings is that in both buildings the laying hens are housed on two levels. The poultry housing systems are both products of the German company Big Dutchman. On the occasion of an Open Day, the Diekmann family recently opened one of their houses for the interested public. Several hundred people used this opportunity to examine the new poultry house with its impressive housing equipment.

Poultry house with barn egg production on two levels

The new houses are completely identical and both equipped with the most modern poultry systems for aviary management. With a size of 71 x 14.5 meters each and an eaves height of 6.8 meters, each poultry house has two levels. They are completely separate from each other, which is a great advantage from the hygienic point of view.

Big seller NATURA60 for effective layer management

The layers are housed in a NATURA 60 aviary, a member of the popular NATURA product range for barn egg production and free range egg production. The characteristic feature of NATURA60 is its perfect accessibility: Every second (inspection) aisle of the poultry system remains free of litter, hens and manure. This unique concept in aviary management simplifies and decisively reduces the time involved in layer management, whilst increasing egg production safety at the same time. The litter area can easily be locked for the familiarisation phase. This ensures a good start into the laying phase and minimises the number of slat and floor eggs.

Everything but ordinary: Barn egg production with 60,000 laying hens on two levels

The flexible NATURA modular system is the right choice when opting for aviary management with optimum use of the available space and, above all, for tailor-made solutions. Big Dutchman submitted evidence for this in the Diekmann poultry houses. In this special case, only approx. 8,000 square meters were available for the egg production unit. This required a lot of creative thinking as it was necessary to optimally use every centimetre of space. The successful and extraordinary results are two double-storey buildings with four units which have four rows each, in which the three level NATURA 60 poultry system is installed. This way 60,000 bird places were created.