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Lighting for poultry: what do you need to consider?

"Chickens can also perceive light through their skulls, so even a 'blind' chicken can sense the length of daylight periods and thus seasonal changes. Good...

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Rearing pullets in Spain: Training of future layers starts from the first day [CASE]

Given the market demands, egg production in alternative systems continues to increase in Spain, also in line with the trends of their European neighbors. We...

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Keeping turkeys: what are the differences between markets?

"There are three types of turkey breeders: light, medium and heavy. You can find the heavy breeders mainly in Brazil, Germany, Italy, America and England. In...

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On-farm hatching: "When transporting incubated eggs to the broiler house, it’s all about temperature".

"The transport of incubated eggs is of course much better than transporting chicks, you are not moving around living chicks that are sometimes without food and...

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Keeping it cool- reliable ventilation and minimised floor eggs [CASE]

Over a decade ago, Rowland Morris- a fourth generation farmer from Wales- decided to diversify from his familiar farm life into a new profitable venture. From...

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Prinzen

Egg setting: “Innovation is key for us, so Vencomatic Group fits well” [CASE]

“My name is Roberto Moraes Jardim Filho, graduated as Zootecnista in 1998. I finished my PHD in nutrition in 2004 at the UGA in the United States. At the...

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quality

Quality Assurance: "Products of Vencomatic Group are long-lasting"

"Twenty years ago, the subject of quality was still in its infancy here. The first quality department employee was the Health & Safety-coordinator who had...

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RED-L

Mobile sheds: “Yallamundi is a unique place” [CASE]

“Yallamundi is a unique place that you cannot find anywhere else in the world. It’s a 2900 ha farm with 318,000 olive trees surrounding a natural lagoon The...

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turkey nest

Turkey breeding farming: "The mother animals are very different".

"Turkey breeder farmers are very different from chicken breeding farmers, they talk about individual animals like cows. After all, a turkey hen is expensive,...

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sponsorship

Our sponsorship of Jasmine Harrison: an interview

“When I saw dolphins, I was so desperate to swim with them- the organization thought I had fallen overboard when I jumped in, haha. One night I was even...

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palletiser

Palletiser being built: "We only sell machines that we dare to sleep under"

"A customer in Finland had built a second layer house, he now has to stack seven pallets of eggs a day. Our palletiser saves him a lot of time, but also his...

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palletiser

"Our first customer cannot miss the egg palletiser"

"We had an increasing demand for an entry-level model of an egg palletiser, for farmers with less than 100,000 chickens. That is why we come up with the PAL110...

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