Cage-Free Production Was Focus at Midwest Trade Show

摘要

Increased demand for eggs from noncaged flocks represented the principal focus of equipment, exhibitors, and producers at the 2007 Midwest Poultry Federation Trade Show in St. Paul, Minn. Non-confined production requires one of four options: Erectionof new housing with litter and slatted areas, feeding, and drinking installations and communal mechanical nests. Erecting a new house equipped with an aviary system incorporating multi-tier perches, feeding systems and communal mechanical nests for egg collection. Removal of obsolete cages from existing housing with installation of either a floor or an aviary system. Conversion of obsolete broiler breeder facilities, which remains a popular option in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.