Analysis of Advantages and Disadvantages of Caged Broilers

Advantages of caged broilers:

1. Make full use of the building space to reduce the site and construction investment cost of each chicken.

2. The rate of return of feed is high, and the chicken has a strong growth advantage.

3. It is easy to raise the temperature, save energy, and the fuel cost per chicken is greatly reduced.

4. Intestinal diseases are greatly reduced.

5. It can detect the weakness of the disease earlier, facilitate the elimination in time, and help to control the disease in large groups.

6. It can be put out 40 days ago to shorten the feeding cycle.

7. Save the cost of medicine, which is less than 1 yuan per chicken.

Disadvantages of caged broilers:

1. One-time investment is on the high side.

2. It is difficult to ventilate.

3. It is difficult to cool down in summer.

4. it takes a lot of work to clean up the feces.

5. Chicken drinking water is limited to two nipples, and sometimes there is a shortage of water.

6. Landing chickens are not easy to catch and often become weak.

7. Due to the limitation of the feed trough, chickens will be trampled to death when they scramble for food.

8. Vertical three-layer cage culture, the lower layer is lack of daylighting, affecting the growth.

9, with chicken disinfection can not be thorough, there will be dead corners.

10. Respiratory diseases occur frequently.

The above shortcomings can be overcome and can be improved with a little brainstorming.

There are two forms of caged broilers, one is vertical three-layer cage, the disadvantage is: it is not easy to install automatic feeding machine, automatic manure scraping machine, relying on manual labor is too large; the following two layers are lack of daylighting. The second is the ladder type three-layer cage, the disadvantage is: it is not easy to feed manually, the cage occupies a large space, and the same space for raising chickens is relatively less.