Indiana, USA: Adding barn egg production to meet customers’ needs
Until approximately five years ago, all of Midwest Poultry Services’ hens were housed in conventional cages. Today, this has changed fundamentally: For instance at their layer farm in Northeastern…
International Cobb experts visit Big Dutchman
Thirty product consultants from the broiler breeding company Cobb Europe recently attended a one-day intensive seminar at the Big Dutchman headquarters. The focus of the seminar were the products for…
Two new houses for turkey production draw immense interest
The Röben family from Edewecht-Osterscheps in the German Ammerland district has been producing turkeys for the past twelve years. To enlarge the family-owned farm further, two new fattening houses for…
Poultry production: 20 years of Big Dutchman systems in Romania
Many successful Romanian livestock owners have trusted Big Dutchman poultry equipment and pig equipment in the past 20 years. This significant figure was recently the reason for a celebratory…
200,000 laying hens join the European Union
After the dissolution of former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s only few West Balkan countries have not yet become a member of the European Union (EU). These countries still allow keeping laying hens in…
Saving money with the new LED technology for poultry houses
For the broilers on Dirk Bockhorst's farm, the morning starts leisurely. As if the sun were rising, the lights are slowly turned on in the houses located in Emstek, Lower Saxony, Germany. Happy…
Reducing heating costs and emissions in poultry houses
With Big Dutchman's heat exchanger Earny, poultry managers can save up to 60 percent of heating costs for their poultry house during the winter. However, there is even more to Earny: The heat…
Poultry growing in new house equipped with Big Dutchman poultry systems
Ulrike and Norbert Martkfort from Westladbergen, Westphalia, Germany, are experts in the area of poultry growing: They built their first broiler house ten years ago. The couple has now expanded this…
USA: Big Dutchman celebrates 75th anniversary at IPE in Atlanta
At the 2013 International Poultry Expo (IPE) in Atlanta, USA, Big Dutchman, one of the most well-known and recognized leaders in the poultry business, presented some exceptional attractions to…
Modern egg production with enriched colony systems
Rubén Martínez García, innovative egg producer from the Spanish municipality of San Lorenzo de la Parilla, owns two poultry farms 150 kilometres south west of Madrid. On one of these farm, Martínez…