Raising chickens can provide fulfillment for both commercial farmers and individuals. Whether you’re taking care of these critters as a business or as a hobby in your backyard Proper poultry equipment is crucial. Raising hens also gives you a chance to appreciate the small pleasures of poultry life. Also, it establishes a connection with the natural world. It ensures flock well-being, security, and output. This tutorial covers the essential poultry equipment for raising chickens.

Understanding the Importance of Chicken Poultry Equipment

It’s important to comprehend why each piece of equipment is essential for chicken poultry equipment before diving into certain equipment. Having the correct equipment enhances the efficiency of your chicken operation and ensures the well-being of your flock, covering everything from housing to safety and hygiene. In this, we incubate the hatched eggs for the first 19 days.

1) Hatchery poultry equipment

1. Hatchery Keeper

In this, we incubate the hatched eggs for the first 19 days. It has facilities to control temperature, humidity, and turning of eggs.

2. Incubator

Although it resembles an incubator, there is no facility to turn the hatched eggs. Also, the trays are designed to fit the hatchlings.

This includes the last 3 days of the egg incubation period.

Different types of incubators and hatchers found in the world:

Corridor type crushers

Cavity type furnaces

Vertical wind turbines

3. Compressed air system

Some incubators use compressed air to turn egg trays, requiring a central large compressed air system to clean the hatch.

4. Emergency Prepared Power Systems

The incubator should have an alternate power system in case power is unavailable from the local power supply system.

A static electricity generator should be located near the hatchery or in an adjacent building.

The right poultry equipment improves your henhouse’s productivity and safeguards the health of your flock by taking care of housing, safety, and cleanliness.

5. Poultry Equipment in the hatchery

• Hatcher plate washers
• Garbage disposal systems
• Egg turning machines
• Machines for inoculating eggs
• Chick boxes are washers
• Cupboard washers
• Vaccination / Breeding / Grading Systems
• High-pressure air compressors

2) Egg handling equipment

1. Hatching trays

Usually hatching trays are flat or hollow.

Each tray can hold 90 or 180 eggs.

2. Machines for changing eggs

This is how the eggs are moved from the hatching tray to the farm egg carton. High egg turnover hatcheries use vacuum egg lifters.

Efficient egg-handling poultry equipment streamlines the process of collecting, cleaning, and storing eggs, reducing the risk of breakage and contamination. Think about investing in egg washers, trays, and baskets to make sure your eggs are fresh and of high quality,

3) Egg finder

It is a tool that uses light to see the internal structures of the egg.

Two types of egg detectors detect single eggs and multiple eggs.

4) Incubator Poultry equipment

These can provide shelter and light for the first few weeks of the chicks.

It has adjustable heights, heat and light reflectors, and a shielding device.

Some of the equipment used for containment are:

1. Charcoal Stove / Kerosene Stove

These stoves are used in places with expensive and scarce electricity or in places without electricity at all.

As these types of ovens have plate and cavity systems, they keep the heat for a long time.

2. Gas cooker

Heating wires heat up using natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas. And they are placed about 3 to 5 feet above the hatch. These ovens have reflectors to direct heat towards the chicks.

3. Electric heaters

A huge area is covered with a consistent amount of heat due to this technique. This prevents the chicks from reaching the same place in the brooder.

An electric incubator can raise 300 to 400 chicks.

4. Infrared lights

It has the same resonator so separate resonators are not required. 150-watt bulbs can provide heat for 250 chicks and 250-watt bulbs for 250 chicks.

5. Echoes or hovers

We refer to these resonators as hovers. They can reflect heat and light.

i).flat hovers

This type is flat. It has a heat light, heating systems, and heating wires. To measure the temperature, some have thermometers installed.

Pillars support these at each of the four corners instead of hanging from the ceiling.

ii). Pocket shaped hover

A the thermostat, a regular electric bulb, and a thermometer are situated inside of this hollow structure.

5) Prevention of hatchling & Brooder guard

These are thin iron plates of 1 – 1.5 feet in height and different lengths, cardboard plates, and bamboo mats.

This barrier-like structure prevents the chicks from leaving the brooder and suffering from the cold.

As a result, the chicks learn to move closer to the warmer area.

The diameter of the barrier of the enclosure should not exceed 5 feet and the height should not exceed 1.5.

Cardboard plates, iron plates, wire mesh, and mats can serve as barriers depending on the seasons.

The incubation period should be 5-6 days in summer and 2-3 weeks in winter.

6) Electric heaters (heating rods or coils)

It contains heating rods and a lamp. Some have thermometers.

Placing resonators above heating wires and coiled wires allows for temperature adjustment as needed.

7) Vaccination equipment

1. Administer the vaccine by injection or drip

This method administers vaccines in the nostrils and eyes.

2. Automated Vaccinator

This method enables inoculating more chickens through the eyes and nose in less time..

3. Chicken Measles Vaccinator

It is useful for injecting vaccines under the skin of the wing.

8. Other Poultry equipment

1. Beak trimmer

Powered by electricity, you can cut the unit of the chicken and control the flocking of the chickens.

Mounted on a pole that is 2 or 3 feet high, it has a construction like to a pedal. The heated plate is ready to cut the chicken unit when the foot presses the pedal.

It also has a method for controlling the heat of the plate.

2. Nesting boxes

These are used in free-range poultry farming to produce clean eggs..

These are available individually and in combination and closable.

3. Weighing scales

There are different types of weighing scales.

. Perches Roost Perches

Hens are raised 3 to 5 feet off the ground using these wooden frameworks.

5. Shelves/Rake

Made of iron and wood.

In the borehole method, the borehole is placed over it.

6. Water sprinkler

Uses in hot areas.

The market offers sprinklers for spraying water around the farm and on the barn roof. They help cool the roof during hot and humid afternoons.

7. Sprinkler

Many types of sprinklers are available in the market.

Ideal for use in manual-type poultry equipment farms.

The necessary disinfectant is sprayed and poured into the tank.

8. Flame-gun

Using a flame to heat metal wires, this kerosene or gas-powered pistol kills internal parasites together with their eggs and larvae, ensuring poultry and feed hygiene.