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oultry housing is not exactly any equipment but it is a must for poultry production. There are many ways of making chicken cage. It may be a concrete house or a simple house.
Concrete or simple whatever the house is, it must have to have the necessary benefits for the poultry birds. The poultry cage must have to the facilities of well ventilation and
well day light management. 10-15 feet distance from one house to another house is better. Some basic information should maintain before making poultry house or chicken cage.
The house must have to keep dry and clean always.
Build the house in open air place.
Liter of the house should be at least 3 inch depth.
Wood powder, sand or tush can be used as liter.
Mix half kg of lime powder with the liter.
Change the litter of the house after every one week.
Never let the poultry house wet.
You can raise poultry in open area(free range poultry farming system).
Incubator
Incubator is such a poultry equipment which is used for hatching the birds egg in unnatural ways. Generally in natural condition, the poultry birds hatch the egg, but they can
maintain and hatch a limited number of eggs. So, when it is necessary to hatch a huge number of eggs then the producer must have to use an incubator. There are many types of egg
incubators. Diesel and electric incubator is the most popular and widely used.
Feeder
Feeder is such an equipment which is used for feeding the poultry birds. Generally some foods kept in the feeder and the poultry birds starts eating food from there. Plastic or
metal feeders are used mostly to feed the chickens. The feeder should keep neat and clean always to keep the chicken healthy. Keep sufficient numbers of feeder in the poultry house
according to the number of the chickens. If the amount of feeders are less than the chickens then they can’t consume enough food and their health will broke and if the feeder
become more than the amount of chickens then the birds will waste the food and maximize your feeding cost. So, keep the amount of feeders according to the number of the chickens.