On-farm hatching On-farm hatching: You can see the chicks hatch and that's wonderful Jan Quirijnen (55) from Lage Mierde keeps broilers, 76,800 slow-growing chickens in three houses. Jan has extensively tested systems and products for the... 2 minutes read
RED-L Free range: "Going to your barn every day with pleasure" Together with Inge (43), Gerjan Pol (45) runs a poultry farm with 53,000 free-range hens. Inge does the administration and spins the eggs every morning.... 3 minutes read
Data management Smart farming: "With Meggsius I take the next step in smart poultry farming" As a farmer of laying hens, Jos Nelissen has always made maximum use of scientific knowledge, research and data collection. It is therefore no surprise that he... 5 minutes read
Free range Free range: Perfectly trained hens In the Belgian village of Kasterlee (near Turnhout) Frans Smets (58) and his wife Rita (57) run a rearing farm for free-range laying hens. Rita has a part-time... 4 minutes read
Aviary system Higher egg quality through the right aviary system Poultry farmer Klaasjan Salomons is very satisfied with the Bolegg Terrace system of Vencomatic Group. Klaasjan: "At the end of the day, it is mainly about the... 3 minutes read
On-farm hatching On-farm hatching in Saxony Marco Steinz (42) and his wife Doreen keep more than 200,000 broilers in Saxony, Germany. Doing business in the east of Germany is the same as in the... 4 minutes read
RED-L RED-L in practice: New layer house for poultry farmer Eric Hubers Eric Hubers (53) has been chairman of the department of poultry farming at LTO/NOP for seven years now. He considers it essential that the interests of the... 4 minutes read
Poultry Veranda in practice: Sustainable entrepreneurship René and Jolanda van Doren together have a family business with 60,000 broiler parents in Zeeland (NB). Despite the fact that they have a permanent employee,... 4 minutes read
Speedpack The Speedpack in practice: "quiet and compact" Hergen Smid (60), together with his wife Jenneke (55) and sons André (22) and Dirk (22), has a company with 100,000 laying hens. On their site... 3 minutes read
Poultry Do chickens eat everything? "My uncle had a shed with 300 chickens 50 years ago, he just threw in his leftovers. Nowadays there are 15,000 laying hens in the smallest house, but not a... 2 minutes read