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Need someone to answer your poultry questions? Need to talk to other poultry farmers about poultry equipment and suppliers? Or maybe just compare notes with other small chicken farmers – The South African Poultry Forum is the place to do it. Free registration and membership. Subjects range around chicken layer houses and broiler houses, how and where to get government loans for poultry houses and chicken farming.

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Chicken crates and chick boxes

When you buy your day old chickens they will usually come in cardboard chick boxes. Some companies use plastic chick crates – but these are expensive. If you are growing chicks and need to move them cardboard chick crates are the cheapest option. The only problem is the quantities you need to buy – it is very difficult to buy a few – you will need to buy 1000 crates at a time (in cardboard). Plastic crates can be purchased in smaller quantities. Egg boxes, or egg cartons (for egg farmers) are not expensive in cardboard and can be purchased for 6 eggs, 12 eggs and 30 eggs. Once the eggs are collected from the layer cages they should be packed into egg boxes. Free range eggs are treated no differently, except they are generally not washed – which is a good thing as when you wash a chicken egg you wash away the natural protective coating that is on the chicken egg. Wooden crates are not advised for and kind of poultry application – not if you wish to reuse the crates over and over – the reason is that you cannot properly sanitise a wooden crate. Old wooden pallets are very useful on any chicken farm – but should not come into conatct with the chickens. Cardboard chick boxes are thrown away when they are finished with.

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How many eggs do chickens lay?

A question that is often asked by people wanting to start a layer house is “how many eggs does a chicken lay?” – The industry standard is not clear. The least amount of eggs you should get – even if you are a bad chicken farmer, is 5 eggs per week per chicken. The most you will get is just over an egg a day – or a 105% egg lay rate per chicken. There are many factors which affect the lay rate of chickens, the feed, or layer mash that you give your birds, the way you heat your chicken house, and the way you raise your chickens – it is said that free range chickens and organic chickens do not have as good a egg lay rate as battery chickens kept in a battery cage. This is untrue, many free range egg producers get excellent results and consistently get an egg per day per chicken.

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Poultry Equipment

There is a lot of equipment that goes into a poultry house – from small items of chicken equipment like thermometers to very large items like silos for chicken house. Poultry coops, large and small need specific poultry equipment.

Tube feeders for feeding poultry

Tube feeder

Bell drinkers, tube feeders, winches and min max thermometers are just some of the items. Over the years these items will need servicing and repairing – sometimes replacing. Buy from a recognised poultry equipment dealer who can offer back up service and poultry spares. Going the cheap way in the beginning is likely to catch up with you down the line – When something goes wrong in your chicken house you need a company that can respond immediately and that carries spares. A chicken waits for no man and if your fans or brooder heaters break down or your curtaining systems stop working the broilers or layers will not survive either the high temperatures or the low temperatures.

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Chicken Houses

Yellow Door Chicken Houses and Poultry Houses Fantastic value and quality If You need full commercial open chicken house or closed environment poultry houses please email us and we will quote. These houses include all the equipment you need to start growing chickens – tube feeders, curtains, winches, bell drinkers with header tank. Call us now for more information! Our trained poultry personal can help you with all aspects of starting a chicken farm – from what food you need to cycle time and growing techniques. poultry house

Installing a chicken house

Our team can usually be out to site within 3 weeks – depending on availability of steel. This is usually what keeps us waiting. We buy buy from various supplies – always trying to find the best price for the steel structure. If you are in the bundu – as most poultry farmers are – we come and stay over. Our team will need accommodation, electricity and running water – to live and to work. Depending on how big your chicken house is it can take us up to 4 days to assemble, weld and clad the poultry house. We then begin with installing the poultry equipment and curtains. Our poultry houses are pre manufactured in our factory in Pretoria – parts are painted with our Yellow Door House colors – anti rust paint, and then we touch up on site. Our trade mark yellow door is wide enough to allow easy access for most requirements. The 3m wide chicken house is manufactured using 25mm angle iron. The 6m wide poultry house uses 30mm angle iron. Small Farmer Solution
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Poultry Houses

Poultry Houses in African conditions are completely different to environments in European countries and also Asian countries. We face certain issues which our fellow poultry farmers around the world tend not to. Poultry house and equipment

Drinking water and heating tend to be 2 primary challenges that we face when raising poultry in Africa. Even though we’ve a dry climate that is ideal, most people additionally encounter excessive high temperatures at times. Water is a very scarce commodity. Using the appropriate size header tanks, clean water along with a decent checking system can save numerous complications. Extended distance and supply can also be a challenge – transporting chickens, feed, propane gas, fuel as well as equipment systems over great distances adds to our bottom line.

Ordering poultry supplies in large quantities can save money but storage turns into a problem. Bigger farms use silos in order to store their food – always keeping it from rats and wild birds. Poultry production can be hugely profitable. Utilizing the right poultry products to suit the actual size of your flock is important.

Various types of bell drinkers along with nipple drinking systems match different conditions, budgets and the amount of birds you have to grow. Plasson Bell drinkers tend to be widely used however so are many other brands. Bell drinkers need daily upkeep and also washing , additionally a thoroughly clean water source to make sure that they do not block. Impex nipple drinking systems function effectively – taking the drudgery out of watering your flock. Poultry house - steel structure

Heating with gas utilizing a gas brooder can be costly – although not as costly as electrical brooders. Of course if electrical power was cheap we’re able to utilize it – but it is expensive as well as erratic. Should an electrical power cut from Eskom happen you can wind up in severe difficulties , particularly if your chickens are young. For great growth the temperatures of the house should be correct – using a Gasolec gas brooder is the answer – you will regulate the supply line of gas.

Closed environment poultry housing is becoming widely used , once more costly and difficult to make use of. Needless to say in the hands of a highly skilled chicken man this technique is definitely the simplest way to grow poultry – Quite a few farms in South Africa have had very good conversion rates with closed environment poultry houses. On the other hand there are farmers who will not touch closed houses – swearing by open houses and achieving excellent results. Smaller farmers certainly make use of open houses – producing poultry below 10 000 birds isn’t viable utilizing a closed environment system.

Smaller poultry houses made from steel are a good option for the small farmer. Our knock down poultry houses are manufactured for African environments and suit the small farmer. buiding steel chicken houseCooling any poultry house is definitely an important element , Curtains using a winching system is probably the most functional – however it may be supplemented along with fans and cooling pads.

Min max thermometers are a must in any chicken house. Getting the temperature ranges and humidity right is something that may make or even break the production.

When erecting a house, wind direction, sun and placement can help to save time and money afterwards. The maintenance of your shafts, sprockets as well as winches is an continuous job. Finding suppliers of poultry equipment is not hard – finding organizations which manufacture in Southern Africa and offer the back up support is more challenging. Keep in mind that who ever you buy your product from will have to be around for 10 odd years – it is at least how long your system ought to last. Buying on price tag only can be a big blunder if you fail to obtain poultry spares easily and quickly down the road. Chickens await no man and so are more likely to up and die if the system goes down for too long. Many technologies tend to be specific to that manufacturer – meaning that you can not use or even find other suppliers that’s components are appropriate to your poultry equipment.

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