What are the matters needing attention in laying hen cage installation?

Layer cages provide a good production and living environment for laying hens, so that laying hens can better exert their production potential, reduce disease transmission and infection, and facilitate management.

  1. Selection of optimal age for caging

  In order to ensure that the weight of young laying hens reaches the standard without affecting their laying and egg production, laying hens are generally caged at 13~18 weeks of age (no later than 20 weeks of age), and when the chickens grow well, they can be caged at 60 days of age or grouped according to weight and caged in batches.

  2. Maintenance of facilities

  After the laying hens are caged, the living environment is generally not changed, so the corresponding facilities or equipment should be strictly inspected before the laying hens are caged, and the equipment without maintenance value should be replaced in time to prevent the corresponding functional requirements from being met during use or use.

  3. prevent an increase in morbidity

  When laying hens are caged, due to improper operation or temperature difference, immunity is often reduced and morbidity is increased. Therefore, caging should be carried out at night. At the same time, ways such as raising house temperature, improving nutrition and drug prevention should be adopted to prevent morbidity from increasing.

  4. combating parasites

  In order to save labor intensity and improve the control effect of parasitosis, laying hens were fed with corresponding amount of anthelmintics when they were caged.