Light is very important for the growth of chickens, and light can affect a series of growth and development of laying hens. But if the light is too strong, it will make the laying hens restless. Therefore, using the battery cage system for layer to raise chickens requires appropriate lighting.

Poultry farmers know that the temperature of their chicken farms needs to be kept constant. We know that temperature plays an important role in the growth of chickens. If the temperature is too low, the chicken is easy to get cold, thin, and cause respiratory diseases. Chicks tend to gather for warmth, affecting feeding and activities, causing obstacles and, in severe cases, mass mortality. Therefore, proper temperature control is the key to the success or failure of a chicken farm.

Lighting allows birds to produce their own vitamin D. And vitamin D aids in the use and absorption of calcium. Calcium is an important component of eggshells. So the sun can lay eggs normally and avoid soft eggs. In addition, the house is well lit during the day, which can promote the growth of chickens.

1. The light should be stable: Generally, the time when farmers choose to supplement the light for laying hens starts from the age of 19 weeks of the laying hen, and the time to set the light time should be added slowly from short to long, so as to add weekly Half an hour is appropriate. Farmers should pay attention to when the light is added to 16 hours a day, they should maintain a stable light, and then the daily light cannot be short or long. The best way is to make up for the light sooner or later every day.

2. The intensity should be appropriate: farmers should pay attention when selecting the light intensity of the lighting equipment. For normal laying hens, the required light intensity is generally 2.7 watts, but the multi-layer three-dimensional breeding form used in laying hen cage breeding, so For the chickens on the bottom layer, it is easy to feel no light, so the light intensity should be increased when setting the light intensity, generally 3.3 to 3.5 watts per square meter.

3. The illumination should be uniform: farmers should pay attention when installing lighting equipment. The editor recommends that the light bulbs installed in the chicken coop should be 40-60 watts, and then the height of the lights is generally set to about 2 meters. The distance between each bulb is recommended to be about 3 meters. Other farmers should pay attention to that if your chicken coop needs to install more than two rows of bulbs, they should be arranged in a crisscross pattern, which is conducive to uniform lighting, and the bulbs against the wall are the same as the wall. The distance between the bulbs should be half of the distance between the bulbs. You should also pay attention to replacing the damaged bulbs at any time, and scrub the bulbs once a week to maintain a suitable brightness in the chicken house.

4. It is advisable to use red light: There are many kinds of light colors of lighting equipment. Farmers should pay attention to the different light colors and wavelengths of lighting equipment when selecting them. Experiments have shown that when other conditions are the same, the egg production rate of hens raised under red light is higher than that of hens under other colors of light, so the editor recommends that farmers choose red light lighting equipment.

The above are the points that poultry equipment manufacturers share with you for the lighting of chicken houses using automatic battery cage systems. I hope it can help you to better develop the poultry farming industry.