Turnkey farm project for egg production in Bahrain
Providing the growing population in the Middle East and Africa with safe food is a great challenge. With the construction of their new turnkey farm, General Poultry Company B.S.C. (GPC) is making a…
Dr. Frank Hiller to become Chairman of the Big Dutchman Board of Management
With effect from 1 April 2023, Bernd Meerpohl, long-term Chairman of the Board of Management of Big Dutchman AG, will be succeeded by Dr. Frank Hiller. Bernd Meerpohl takes over the position of…
Free range egg production: farmer starts a new production branch
Reinhard Schneeberger from the German municipality of Niedermurach in Bavaria recently started producing organic free range eggs in a new and modern poultry house. Two strictly separated groups of…
Market insights and technologies in the field of welfare farming of laying hens, broilers and pigs
The 2022 World Conference on Farm Animal Welfare and Food Health, co-hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the China Association for the Promotion of…
Egg production: newcomer named Germany’s best poultry manager 2022
In 2019, Holger Hogt from Itterbeck in the northwest of Germany decided to switch from pig production to egg production. Just three years later, in 2022, the Big Dutchman customer scored a podium…
Big Dutchman equips welfare barn for 36,000 organic layers with aviary system and anti-mite innovation
Mites love laying hens – a fact which poultry managers hate, because parasites in the poultry house have a negative effect on animal welfare. Additionally, affected hens lay fewer eggs. Ditte and…
Low energy consumption, a sustainable manufacturing process and robustness during use
Lights on in the barn – while also saving energy? With LED technology, this vision does not have to remain a dream. LED lamps are much more than just a piggy bank, however. The manufacturing process…
A barn with a view: keeping layers at an altitude of 1,573 metres
Laying eggs where others go on holiday: at an altitude of idyllic 1,537 metres, Luca Crazzolara recently refurbished his old cow barn into a modern poultry house, including a range for the hens. All…
“Illuminated feed pans attract broilers”
Big Dutchman is offering a new, smart sensor for broiler feeding: the German poultry equipment supplier has integrated an LED lamp in its proven iDOL 29 sensor, which registers the feed level in the…
Poultry production: from poultry manure to pellets
For poultry production to be environmentally sound and save resources, manure produced by laying hens and heavier poultry must be treated in a manner that makes economic and ecological sense. Manure…