Big Dutchman offers inside and outside high-quality silos and augers for hygienic feed storage. In addition, with Big Dutchman feed conveying systems your feed, be it meals, pellets or crumbs is transported in an hygienic, systematic manner from the silo into the house.
Some key benefits of installing a Big Dutchman Silo and Auger system include:
Find out more about Big Dutchman Silos and Augers by getting in touch with our team.
The intelligent climate control option for your poultry house.
Combitunnel ventilation is a combination of two ventilation systems in one house enabling you to reap the benefits of both systems. When outside temperatures are low, the Big Dutchman Combitunnel ventilation utilises side ventilation systems to provide a uniform temperature throughout the house. When temperatures are high outside, the Combitunnel ventilation system in high mode increases air movement reducing keeping the house cool.
Some key advantages of utilising Combitunnel Ventilation include:
To find out more about Combitunnel Ventilation, get in touch with our team.
If you are looking for a great solution to feeders in your pig-rearing or finishing house, then Big Dutchman Automated Feeders are for you!
Big Dutchman Pig Production offers dry feeders and wet feeders which are both ideally suited for use in piglet rearing and finishing. All feeders can dispense pellets, crumbles or meal and feed can be supplied either manually or via any dry feed system.
Key advantages include:
Find out more about the Big Dutchman Automated feeders by viewing the brochure or get in touch with our team.
Big Dutchman offers a wide range of fresh air supply systems to ensure optimal provision of fresh air. Depending on your poultry building and the specific requirements for your birds, Big Dutchman's product range ensures a wide range of fresh air options. Some of the advantages of the Big Dutchman Fresh Air Supply Systems include:
Products available within our Fresh Air Supply Systems include:
Look out for future posts detailing these systems
The perfect computer for controlling natural ventilation in your barn, Breezy provides reliable and automatic curtain control for ideal temperatures in naturally ventilated barns.
Southern African regions tend to lend themselves to natural ventilation in poultry and pig houses, particularly in areas where winter temperatures are moderate and frost is less of an issue.
Big Dutchman Breezy automatically controls the curtains on the side of the barn enabling independent adjustment.
Utilising sensors within the barn, CO2, temperature and humidity levels are constantly monitored and Breezy adjusts the curtains accordingly.
A true best seller, the Big Dutchman Univent Starter system for pullet rearing offers two different tiers to satisfy the differing needs of both day-old chicks and pullets:
The quality and uniformity of pullets are crucial factors with a decisive influence on laying performance later on.
Essential pre-requisites for successful pullet rearing include:
Univent Starter offers an easy-to-use, well-thought-out system with a modular design for the flexible arrangement of starter and grow tiers. The feed trough with an inward rim is stable and minimises feed wastage. The system has high functional reliability and corrosion resistance.
Big Dutchman Pig Production's new flooring meets our customers' demands for hygienic, productivity-enhancing, and animal friendly housing. Some of the key advantages include:
With flooring designed for sows, piglets and finishers the Big Dutchman flooring offers pig production farmers the opportunity to customise houses to their needs.
Monitoring your poultry birds' weight throughout their growing cycle is critical for profitable poultry farming. Weight that is too high or too low negates the genetic potential of the bird which could impact profitability.
Big Dutchman Bird Weighing options provide the right scale for birds at different development stages and include:
Using telescopic suspension, the platform can be easily adjusted for bird age. Birds tend to accept the Swing 20 well resulting in plenty
plenty of weigh-ins thus improving accuracy.
Consisting of a 1m x 1m large plastic plate, the Swing 70 is designed with larger poultry such as turkeys in mind.
A poultry scale where layers are kept in houses or in cages this low-weight scale can be easily fitted to wire mesh and integrated
seamlessly into the design
A compact stainless steel poultry scale ideal for weighing pullets or
Specifically designed for layer hens in group laying nests.
307 pro and 310 pro are the basis for a climate and production control system that works without fail in your
barn. The computers’ outstanding features include:
The 307pro and 310pro climate computers fully control your barn’s climate with the most modern methods. The temperature in the barn
is regulated quickly and precisely to the required level.
New and unique: the principle of adaptive climate control.
With this method, control parameters are constantly adapted to the current situation in the barn based on a new self-learning function. The house climate is thus permanently optimised, which ultimately increases productivity and sustainability and improves animal welfare. Both computers are available for one or two rooms. They can control any standard ventilation system, including fresh air and exhaust air, heating, cooling, the 378 T emergency opening and alarm
In true best-seller style, UniVent Layer meets and exceeds our customers' high standards for laying birds, keeping birds healthy and improving laying performance. Take a look at some of the key elements UniVent provides farmers:
Extensive testing has shown that the special Big Dutchman suspension for cage bottoms makes the floor of the UniVent cage very elastic: eggs roll quickly but smoothly to the egg channel. This reduces the risk of hairline cracks and dirt to a minimum.
UniVent is a trademark for quality and customer satisfaction and has been for decades.
Big Dutchman Milling and Mixing Solutions provide farmers with the opportunity to use seasonal, locally grown ingredients for feed. Producing feed enables farmers to:
The Big Dutchman Milling and Mixing Solutions include:
Drum Cleaners:
With two different drum cleaners for crop preparation before milling, Big Dutchman drum cleaners have an elegant design with few moving parts for lower maintenance, ensure cleaner feed for better animal production results, are adjustable and highly efficient.
Hammer Mills:
Big Dutchman Hammer Mills have a high capacity for fine milling and provides uniform feed structure, milling takes place in both directions resulting in uniform screen wear. Find out more about Hammer Mills by downloading the brochure.
Filters
Big Dutchman offers three different filter systems with custom-made filters to ensure the effective separation of dust particles.
In addition to the mentioned milling and mixing options Big Dutchman also offers:
MicrosDry: Ideal for dosing small amounts for a specific section of the flock or herd, every section is equipped with an agitator, which enables efficient handling of even slow-flowing raw materials.
Dry Mixers: Enable the mixing of different ingredients such as cereals, soya, dry minerals, vitamins and fats for high-quality feed production.
Silos: Indoor and Outdoor silos for the storage of primary ingredients and completed feed mixes.
Hoppers: For mixes and pre-mixes
Big Dutchman Milling and Mixing solutions can be programmed into Big Farm Net which unites all farm functions and provides an automated farm solution.
The Big Dutchman AirMaster series is the core of many livestock owners' ventilation systems worldwide. With the increasing demand for quality ventilation systems driven by state-of-the-art ventilation control systems, Big Dutchman's Airmaster series delivers several key advantages:
The Big Dutchman AirMaster 130 and 140 series enables livestock farmers to implement step control which enables the adjustment of ventilation rates in the barn to livestock requirements.
One of Big Dutchman Southern Africa's best-selling AirMaster Series, AirMaster 130 provides some key benefits:
Find out more about Big Dutchman AirMaster by getting in touch with our team or downloading the brochure.
To achieve the optimum performance from your birds, it is extremely important to provide fresh and clean drinking water.
For this, water must be available reliably, free from contamination and within easy reach for the birds. Big Dutchman satisfies all of these requirements in an ideal way – offering a wide range of drinking systems for broilers, turkeys, and breeders, as well as pullets and layers.
Our product range includes:
The choice of the right drinking system depends on the type of bird, on the field of use, on the situation in the house and on your individual requirements.
#1: Maximum Hygiene:
With a smooth surface, no corners or edges the Top Orange provides a hygienic drinking system for birds.
#2: Optimum Water Provision
Several systems ensure your poultry receive optimum water without wastage.
#3: Drip Cup
Keeping your house litter dry while enabling birds to comfortably drink, Top Orange
In the poultry industry, a new era dawned in 1938 when Big Dutchman introduced the world’s first automated chain feeding
system. Thanks to its robust and simple principle, this feeding system has proved itself a million times over.
The basic concept – hopper, drive unit, trough, corner and the Big Dutchman CHAMPION feed chain has remained unchanged.
The entire system, how ever, has been continuously improved and adapted to today’s requirements for modern poultry management.
Big Dutchman developed the ideal fast feeding system for restricted broiler breeder feeding by increasing the conveying speed to 36 m/min
The Automatic Chain Feeder provides farmers with automated feeding solutions. The feed hopper is available in different versions matching perfectly the respective requirements. Its capacity varies according to the number of feed lines and the size of the hopper extensions. The feed level in the trough can be precisely adjusted by the feed level slide. As an option, the feed hopper can be equipped with a feed return wheel preventing feed from overflowing. The chain drive is always separate from the feeder, so that the feeding system can be simply adapted without problems to any house situation. The ideal shape and width of the feed trough guarantees that the birds do not disturb each other when feeding. Feed losses are reduced to an unavoidable minimum.
The Big Dutchman Swing 70 and Swing 20 provides accurate weighing of birds without the stress. In modern poultry production the accurate weighing of birds throughout the growing process provides important information that supports farmers with:
A feeding system for poultry growing must meet very high standards – depending on feed distribution (adlibitum or controlled feeding) and age and type of birds. The system has to satisfy the needs of day-olds as well as those of heavy birds. Easy access to
the feed and avoidance of feed waste are of great importance. To meet these requirements the best possible way, we offer our customers a variety of feed pans that can all be filled with feed by means of the renowned AUGERMATIC conveying system.
The AUGERMATIC system consists of:
The innovative 360° and 330° feeding pans have a flooding mechanism which ensures a high feed level all the way around the pan to make the feed more accessible for day-old chicks – without extra work for the grower. As the birds grow, the entire feed line is raised, which causes the flooding mechanism to close thus decreasing the feed level in- side the pan. This reduces feed wastage to an absolute minimum. Baffles at the outer cylinder of the pan prevent feed wastage.
Advantages and Benefits
As litter sizes continue to increase you may find your sows struggling to nourish all of the piglets. The Big Dutchman Culina Cup provides you with a hygienic, efficient and animal-friendly supplementary feeding system that helps to ensure all of the piglets in your litter survive while supporting your sows during lactation. This in turn supports a more relaxed sow and piglet environment resulting in healthier piglets and more fertile sows.
Key to the success of the Culina Cup is the fact that fresh, warm, feed milk is available to piglets in small amounts to ensure hygiene and at any time.
Big Farm Net provides you with a unique solution to pig production, where you have access to house information providing insights into animal trends, feed efficiency and the overall productivity of your pig production house. With performance data available at the touch of a button, Big Farm Net enables you to better predict business trends for your farm.
Big Farm Net Provides you with:
Understanding
Based on Knowledge
Acquired through Information on YOUR farms performance
Powered by your data.
FlexLED is an innovative LED tube lamp which can be used across your houses with nearly no boundaries. The main cable runs through the entire house (outside of the bird area) without any plug connections and thus ensures that the entire power remains in the main line.
Retrofitting additional FlexLED tube lamps at a later point is also very simple. Thanks to the plug & play principle, each LED tube can be installed individually in any place. In addition, all connections are completely waterproof.
Designed for start-up farmers in Southern Africa, Easy Step 56 provides you with a Big Dutchman quality solution to housing up to 56 laying hens. With galvanised metal parts which are extremely weather resistant, an elegant water and feed solution that reduces wastage and an innovative cage layout that takes care of manure disposal, Easy Step 56 is the perfect way to start your egg production business.
Easy Step 56 doesn't require special installation and the simple tools and comprehensive construction manual enables start-up farmers to unbox and set up their egg production farm in a matter of hours.
Here at Big Dutchman, we understand that every egg is precious and the fewer breakages the more profitable your layer farm. As a result, the Big Dutchman Big Packer minimises breakages with quality components and calibration to ensure the maximum number of eggs possible make it into the egg trays.
BigPacker, is a high-quality farm packer providing a high net efficiency as well as very smooth handling of eggs. BigPacker is available in three sizes and an automatic tray stacker as an option as well.
ViperTouch is a climate computer that enables you to control the entire house environment according to state-of-the-art principles. The controller can be used for all established types of ventilation (natural, mechanical and combined). This includes side, cross, tunnel and CombiTunnel ventilation.
ViperTouch controls:
ViperTouch provides you with a professional production computer that records all important data regarding growth, feed and water consumption and mortality of your stock (broilers, turkeys, ducks). This enables you to react quickly to changes and to take the required action, which in turn will lead to better performance results and increase economic efficiency.
RainMaker is a pad cooling system developed by Big Dutchman that features a clever and unique frame system. Its main benefits include:
The system uses evaporation to cool barns and is therefore mainly installed in climate regions with hot and dry summers. The higher the temperature and the lower the relative humidity, the higher the cooling effect. This makes the RainMaker a perfect solution for many Southern African regions where summers are generally hot and relatively dry.
Viva 330 is a feed pan for broiler production that has been newly developed by Big Dutchman.
The pan not only satisfies the needs of day-old chicks but also those of heavy birds during the final grow-out period. The following points are essential for successful broiler rearing:
Viva 330 fulfils all of these requirements optimally. You can also select either a deep or a flat dish. Let our experts advise you on how to find the best option for your individual needs.