Two Hot-sale Battery Cages For Poultry You Should Know

Poultry farming has always been an investment project with a short cycle and quick return. Traditional poultry farming is mainly cage-free farming, but with the increase in market demand and the emergence of the integrated, large-scale, and automated farming concept, cage farming has gradually become the first choice of breeders.

The battery cage is the most common poultry cage system on the market, widely used in Asia, parts of North America, Africa, and many other countries. Much of Europe has opted for enriched battery cages. Compared with the traditional farming method, it is very popular with breeders because of distinct advantages, such as a small footprint, large breeding amount, high automation, and low mortality.

There are mainly two types of battery cages for poultry breeding. What are their specification and difference? How to start your poultry farming business with a battery cage system?

A Type Poultry Battery Cage & H Type Poultry Battery Cage

Both A-type and H-type battery cages belong to stacked cages, which are named as their appearance is similar to the letters A and H from the side look. They can be equipped with a variety of semi-automatic and fully automatic poultry breeding equipment to achieve efficient and scientific poultry farming.

A Type Battery Cage

A-type battery cage is suitable for small and medium-scale poultry farming (less than 20000 birds). It is usually 3-4 tiers and can be installed with a semi-automatic or automatic drinking system, feeding system, manure removal system, etc. This type of poultry cage is not only available in table poultry breeding but also in egg-laying poultry breeding

Advantages:

Semi-automatic and automatic poultry farming equipment are both available.

Low labor force requirement, only 3-4 operators can handle a large poultry house.

It features a low cost. Breeders with limited funds can choose A-type poultry cage.

The open area of each layer is large, even if it is in a closed-type poultry house, the ventilation is not bad. Meanwhile, the lighting condition is excellent in the same way.

Disadvantages:

It has a limited breeding number, suitable for small and medium-scale poultry farming.

Compared with H-type battery cage, it occupies a slightly large space and has a lower degree of automation.

Because of its unique structure, the top-layer poultry manure will fall into the bottom layer. But it can be equipped with a belt-type manure removal system and a scraper-type manure removal system.

FamTECH A Type Battery Cage Specification

Tiers	Cell Size (mm)	Set Size (mm)	Capacity/Set
3 tiers	610*500*370	1830*2300*1500	108-126
4 tiers	610*500*370	1830*2650*1700	144-168

Tiers	Cell Size (mm)	Set Size (mm)	Door (each layer & each side)	Capacity/Set
3 tiers	430*410*410	1720*2300*1500	4	96
4 tiers	430*410*410	1720*2650*1700	4	128
3 tiers	430*410*410	2150*2300*1500	5	120
4 tiers	430*410*410	2150*2650*1700	5	160

H Type Battery Cage

H-type battery cage is suitable for large-scale poultry farming (more than 20000 birds). It is usually 3-8 tiers or multiple sets of cages stacked and installed vertically. It can be further classified into European-style battery cages, small-stacked battery cages, and unilateral-style battery cages. And it can only be equipped with fully automatic poultry farming equipment.

Advantages:

There are a variety of styles for customers to choose from, which enjoy wider applicability.

Small footprints and high space utilization make intensive and large-scale breeding into reality.

Fully automatic and low labor force requirement, only 3-4 operators can handle a large poultry house.

There is a manure removal belt at the bottom of each layer to ensure the cleanliness of the poultry house and reduce the death rate of poultry.

Disadvantages:

Compared with an A-type battery cage, its upfront investment is large.

It can only be equipped with fully automatic poultry farming equipment.

FamTECH H Type Battery Cage Specification

Type	Model	Tiers	Cell size	Set size	Capacity	Birds/cell	Area/bird(cm2)	Cage  door
Small Stacked	H3L120	3	450*500*410	1800*1000*2200	120	5	450	4 doors/side
Small Stacked	H4L160	4	450*500*410	1800*1000*2800	160	5	450	4 doors/side
New Stacked	H3L144	3	450*600*410	1800*1200*2140	144	6	494	4 doors/side
New Stacked	H4L192	4	450*600*410	1800*1200*2790	192	6	494	4 doors/side
New Stacked	H5L240	5	450*600*410	1800*1200*3440	240	6	494	4 doors/side
New Stacked	H6L288	6	450*600*410	1800*1200*4090	288	6	494	4 doors/side
Advanced European	H3L54	3	650*625*500	650*1250*2200	54	9	451.38	1 door/side
Advanced European	H4L72	4	650*625*500	650*1250*2850	72	9	451.38	1 door/side
Advanced European	H5L90	5	650*625*500	650*1250*3500	90	9	451.38	1 door/side
Advanced European	H6L108(3+3)	6	650*625*500	650*1250*4150	108	9	451.38	1 door/side
Advanced European	H8L144(4+4)	8	650*625*500	650*1250*6200	144	9	451.38	1 door/side

Tiers	Set Size	Cell Size	Capacity	Birds/Cell	Area/Bird(cm2)	Cage Door
3	1300*2150*2550	650*625*430	120	10	406.25	4 doors
4	1300*2150*2550	650*625*430	160	10	406.25	4 doors

How To Start Your Poultry Farming Business With Battery Cage?

Learning Poultry Farming

Starting your business blindly is not feasible. You should have some basic training, like taking a training course, consulting with experienced industry insiders, working on a farm as an employee to gain experience, or some other ways. After that, you can plan your business in a structured way.

Market Research & Poultry Sector Selection

Market research is a critical step because poultry farming is a wide industry. You need to determine the breeding species and the breeding direction according to the local market demand, such as raising table poultry or egg-laying poultry. In addition, you also need to decide the business scale based on the size of the market. This will affect subsequent poultry house construction, equipment purchases, and funding issues.

Poultry House Construction

Before constructing the poultry house, you should select an appropriate site that is close to the target consumer market but a little far away from the town so that the land and labor force are cheap. Of course, you also need to consider factors such as water, electricity, and transportation. Then you can start to build the poultry house. A standard poultry house needs to hold all poultry cages and necessary poultry farming equipment. It is divided into fully closed type, semi-closed type, and open type. Investors can select according to the local climate, humidity, breeding amount, and capital situation.

Battery Cage Purchase

It is the goal of all breeders to purchase poultry battery cages of good quality, affordable price, and suitable size. When purchasing, you should tend to choose battery cages with quality material, excellent anti-corrosion performance, and long service life, and choose the appropriate cage style and cage size according to the poultry weight, house size, and breeding needs. If you have limited funds or a small farming scale, A-type battery cages are a good choice. If you have a large farming scale or require a high degree of automation, you can choose H-type battery cages.

Poultry Farming Equipment Purchase

Based on different breeding needs, investors can selectively equip poultry farming equipment, like automatic drinking equipment, feeding equipment, climate control equipment, manure removal equipment, egg collecting equipment, feed storage equipment, etc. They are excellent helpers for breeders to realize high efficient, automatic, and intensive poultry farming.