Three barns within three years: farmer Sven Sangel relies on Big Dutchman mobile housing systems
Sven Sangel from the Northern German district of Nordwestmecklenburg has been in charge of his family’s arable farm for years. In 2019, he additionally started producing free range eggs. It all began…
Sow management: Ondo State governor inaugurates farm
The village of Ilutoro has a new and ultra-modern piggery. Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of Ondo State in Nigeria, wants to create new jobs and training opportunities as well as alleviate protein…
Sow management: Smart BigFarmNet technology connects the entire farm
After a renovation period of 1.5 years, Big Dutchman customer Gobarto S.A. recently started operating one of the most modern pig farms in Poland. The complex located in Zalesie, not far from Wrocław,…
Free range egg production: a good start in the new barn
Kevin Creemers is happy with his new poultry house and the Big Dutchman Natura Colony 2400 aviary: his free range chickens had a good start. “I have a great overview of the entire barn and I like the…
Egg production: How to manage need-based feeding of laying hens with amacs and split feeding control
It’s all about the egg at the Meiners poultry farm in Spahnharrenstätte in the German Emsland region near the Dutch border. The farm has been family-owned for three generations and houses 50,000…
havito®: the welfare barn with solid flooring for piglet rearing and pig finishing
Pens without slatted floors and slurry pits, but with littered lying areas and a comfortable climate: what sounds like a vision of the future has already been introduced to the market by Big Dutchman…
Welsh egg producer turns to Big Dutchman air scrubber to allow for free range expansion
In many regions of the world, permits for poultry houses are only granted on the condition that the exhaust air is cleaned from ammonia, odours and dust. This was also the case when Duncan Davies from…
Pullet rearing in a “broiler house”
German consumers demand more and more organic eggs. While 6.2 % of bird places were for organic egg production in 2010, this figure had nearly doubled by the end of November 2018, at 11.1 %. Since…
Welfare boot camp for pullets
“The first batch was great!” The Glicksman family – father Yona and his sons Benny and Moshe – from Gedera, 50 kilometres south of Tel Aviv, are perfectly happy with their new rearing aviary. The…
Pig finishing: Danish farmer hosts Open Day with social distancing
Bidding farewell to sow management, Lars Jensen from Aars in Northern Denmark has started finishing pigs on his farmstead “Kællingtandgaard” (“Lotus farm”). For this operational restructuring, the…