Biometrics for layers and breeding within everyone's reach
Fancom produces customised systems for climate, feeding and biometrics. Biometrics is often associated with weight determination and classifying the birds. This can be done using traditional weighing platforms or by using modern camera techniques.
Optimally gearing the dose of feed to suit egg production is essential to achieve good results. Overweight quickly leads to excessive feed consumption, while underweight gives lower production.
An automatic egg counting system provides information about the daily egg production in your houses. This information also quickly reveals any differences between the number of eggs per row or per tier. Differences in the laying percentages allow the farmer to, for example, adjust the climate or the light. Automatic egg counting also provides valuable, extra data in modern housing systems such as aviary house and free range houses. The distribution pattern of the eggs can be used to check if the distribution of eggs, and therefore the birds, is homogenous, even with birds that have freedom to move around in the house.
Fancom substantially lowered the price of egg counters at the beginning of the year. In fact, the price of the most widely used egg counter for alternative housing systems, the IR.20, was slashed by more than 40%!This makes it a highly interesting proposition for many companies to invest in automatic egg counting.
Registering the daily feed and water consumption completes the biometric parameters and offers a host of management data for a small investment. The automatic registration of water, feed, eggs and bird weight will give you all the tools you need to optimise your operating results.
