What should be noted when putting laying hens into cages?

        Laying hen cages provide laying hens with a good production and living environment, allowing them to better realize their production potential, reducing the spread and infection of diseases, and making management easier.

  1. Selection of the optimal age for caging

  To ensure that young laying hens reach the target body weight without affecting the start of laying and egg production increase, laying hens are generally caged at 13 to 18 weeks of age (no later than 20 weeks of age at the latest). When the flock is growing well, they can be caged at 60 days of age for easier management, or grouped by different body weights and caged in batches.

  2. Inspection and repair of facilities and equipment

  After laying hens are caged, their living environment generally no longer changes, so before caging, the corresponding facilities or equipment should be strictly inspected and repaired. Equipment with no repair value should be replaced in time to prevent failure to meet the corresponding functional requirements during use or in the course of use.

  3. Preventing an increase in the incidence of disease

  When laying hens are caged, improper handling or the influence of temperature differences often leads to reduced immunity and an increased incidence of disease. Therefore, caging should be carried out at night, and methods such as raising the house temperature, improving nutrition, and drug prevention should also be adopted to prevent an increase in the incidence of disease.

  4. Prevention and treatment of parasites

  Laying hens are generally treated with the corresponding deworming drugs at 60 days of age and 120 days of age respectively to prevent and treat parasitic diseases. To save labor intensity and improve the control effect on parasitic diseases, the corresponding amount of deworming drugs is generally fed separately at the time of caging.