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Innovative chain feeding system for separate male feeding – and more
MaleChain completes the wide range of Big Dutchman products for broiler breeder management The management of broiler breeders is very challenging. Breeders are very sensitive birds, especially regarding feeding. Even small errors can have a negative effect on hatching egg production. The be all and end all in broiler breeder management is therefore that males and females are fed according to their needs, i.e. strictly separately. Breeder managers also need to guarantee that the males do not eat the hens’ feed and that the hens cannot reach the males’ feed, either. Big Dutchman can offer different solutions for this problem.
The innovative chain feeding system MaleChain works with only one chain loop in the trough. Inside of a poultry house with feeding system and birds
The newest product in the portfolio is MaleChain. This innovation is the world’s first chain feeding system for separate male feeding where the entire chain loop requires just one trough. “With the double loop, breeder managers save lots of space in the barn,” Big Dutchman product manager Jennifer Lindel says about the central feature of MaleChain. She adds that “MaleChain is ideal for males with untrimmed beaks since the feed chain promotes natural smoothing of the beak.” Poultry equipment supplier Big Dutchman thus reacts to Germany’s ban on beak trimming with this feature. A patent for the innovation is pending.
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