Laying Hens News
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LED Light for Chickens: The Best Color you should Know
Lighting is one of the most crucial aspects of poultry production. When it comes to poultry production, it is true that chickens perceive light differently, and setting up a LED light to simulate nature is essential. In addition, factors such as light distribution, intensity, and color play a major role in providing the perfect conditions. Because of this, more LED products with various color and ...
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Hontech-Wins Brings Exclusive Agricultural Lighting to Attend EuroTier
As one of the most professional and experienced suppliers of agricultural lighting, Hontech-Wins is responsible for distributing high-performance and high-quality agricultural lighting products, including LED poultry lighting. To fulfill this responsibility, we brought exclusive LED agricultural lighting to attend EuroTier, the world's leading trade fair for professional livestock management and ...
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6 Major Benefits of Poultry LED Lighting
Light plays an important role in poultry production as it can affect poultry's immune function, growth rate, and reproductive hormones. As a result, market demand for stable and high-quality poultry lighting is rising. A study in the Journal of Applied Poultry Research claims that poultry raised with LED lighting systems can produce more eggs and mature faster. In addition, the poultry ...
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Follow 5 Factors to Choose the Best Poultry House Lighting Systems
An increasing number of farmers are aware of the significant role of sufficient poultry lighting, especially in the condition that they want higher quantity and quality products. Nowadays, more evidence has shown that sufficient poultry lighting can leave a strong and positive impact on the layering hens and the breeding broilers by maximizing egg production, stimulating mating cycles, and ...
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Why hontech-wins Light color for chicken is important?
Summary of lights for chicken Hontech-Wins chicken lighting system is to help the chickens grow healthily by controlling the lights from light intensity (lux) to the chicken eyes and stimulate the brain via extra retinal photoreceptors in the pineal gland and the hypothalamic gland. Chickens are affected by the duration, intensity and spectrum of light. Light can be utilized as a management ...
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What kind of color is good for chickens?
What kind of color is good for chickens? Understanding (he color spectrum given off by a light source will assist producers in selecting a tight bulb which can deliver the proper amounts of red. green and blue light. Light bulb color can be expressed in degrees Kelvin IK) and color rendering index(CRI). However, neither of these measurements expresses the spectral peak intensity in the red. ...
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LED Lighting for Poultry Housing
By Agricultural Engineer. The Canada Plan Service. Light levels (intensity or illuminance) and the duration of light (photo period) are important factors in poultry production. Intensity has an effect on cannibalism and aggression, along with feed and water intake, while photo period influences reproductive and egg production cycles, total feed intake, and growth rate. Light intensity at the ...
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French Groupe Grimaud and Bulgarian Start-up Nasekomo announce the launch of a joint venture FlyGenetics
Circular agriculture: “Fly Genetics”, a new European player at the heart of insect production! French Groupe Grimaud and Bulgarian Start-up Nasekomo announce the launch of a joint venture to build a European champion to supply the insect-based bioconversion industry with improved black soldier flies. What is the insect-based bioconversion industry? The insect-based bioconversion ...
By Nasekomo
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Eight years down the road my expectations have been fully met!
Nearly eight years have passed since Emmanuel Destrijker from Plessisville, Quebec in Canada, installed a DACS ventilation system in his new layer house. Even though he was the first to buy such a system in Canada he was convinced the system would work. Eight years down the road his expectations have been fully met! Air distributed to every single corner “No matter the time of year, I ...
By DACS A/S
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One Farm’s Spring Update: Herbs, Laying Hens, and Bed-Building
A few weeks ago I asked for you to share what you’ve been doing on your farms with me and I wanted to share this short story of what Bil and Alise of Under The Sun Herbs have been up to on their farm. Below follows their account of their farm projects this spring. It’s really starting to feel like we’re connecting the dots on our farm. In our second season on 10 acres near ...
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2020 IPPE Has Strong Show
ATLANTA, Ga. –Feb. 27, 2020–The 2020International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) had 31,504animal food, meat and poultryindustry leaders from all over the world in attendance,withan 8% increase in the number of buyers from last year. A total of 1,377exhibitors showcased theirlatest technologyand solutions,withmore than 573,000 square feet of exhibit space. IPPEis the world's ...
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How can we clean up the broiler cage equipment?
A clean and hygienic environment is conducive to the healthy growth of chickens. However, there are many farmers who have cleaned up the broiler cage equipment and some corners are not cleaned up. Even if the broiler cage equipment is cleaned using a septic machine, it does not necessarily ensure that the cleaning of the dead corners can be done well. So how do you clean up the broiler cage ...
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Ahmet Tetik Layer Poultry Installation Completed
Ahmet Tetik Layer Poultry Installation Completed. Uzbekistan Mojtaba Mogadam Plant Installation ...
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Uzbekistan Mojtaba Mogadam Plant Installation Completed
Uzbekistan Mojtaba Mogadam Plant Installation Completed. Kaytas Laying Plant Installation Completed. Ahmet Tetik Layer Poultry Installation Completed. ...
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Armyworm, aquaculture and other exciting and interactive workshops and demos at Agritech Expo Zambia in Chisamba
The upcoming Agritech Expo at GART in Chisamba will once again offer free workshops offering practical advice as well as live demonstrations to help farmers combat challenges such as the armyworm, explore new technologies such as aquaculture as well as learn from experts on improving efficiency of operations and yields on their farms. The award-winning event returns to Chisamba for the fourth ...
By VUKA Group
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Poultry Practice?
The demand for protein continues to rise and the wants and needs of consumers continue to evolve. With an added focus on protein sources like plants and continued product differentiation within the egg and poultry industries, the responsibilities of production plants continue to grow more complex. It’s vital that companies further invest in their operations and look for innovative solutions ...
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BACTOCELL® on-tracks for EU authorization: minor avian species and minor porcine species
Lallemand Animal Nutrition is pleased to announce that the Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP) of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has given a positive scientific opinion for use of BACTOCELL®* (Pediococcus acidilactici MA 18/5M, deposited at Institut Pasteur) as a zootechnical feed additive in minor avian species, such as duck and game (quail, ...
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Cracking the egg in Serbia!
End of April, fifteen experts from Serbian feedmills and farms as well as authorities participated to Lallemand Animal Nutrition Poultry Seminar in Sabac, Serbia. This was the opportunity to introduce the Serbian market to our unique solutions for broilers and layers. Thanks to great organization support from Serbian Distributor Elixirfeed, participants really appreciated this event. Focus on ...
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New Poultry Nutrition Studies Presented at JRA
Lallemand Animal Nutrition was pleased to contribute to the 11th Poultry Research Days (“Journées de la Recherche Avicole et Palmipèdes à Foie Gras”), in Tours, France, as a sponsor and scientific contributor. This biennial poultry congress was the opportunity to showcase our latest research in poultry nutrition and probiotics applications through a poster and ...
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Higher milk yield by giving cows a name: fact or fiction?
Fact! Increased human attention to the individual animal improves milk yield and cow behavior. On farms where cows were called by name, milk yield was found to be higher than on farms where this was not the case. Increased human attention to animals and predominant positive contact are the key factors in improving the quality of human-animal interactions. Human-animal interactions can have ...
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