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Big Dutchman equips welfare barn for 36,000 organic layers with aviary system and anti-mite innovation
Denmark: Ditte and Morten Helsted join the egg production business
Mites love laying hens – a fact which poultry managers hate, because parasites in the poultry house have a negative effect on animal welfare. Additionally, affected hens lay fewer eggs. Ditte and Morten Helsted from Rødby in South Denmark therefore decided to fight the unwelcome guests when they started planning a new barn for organic egg production: they ordered the new anti-mite perch MiLow for their Natura Step aviary from Big Dutchman.
“The colleagues from Engineering have developed a suspension for the perch that makes it difficult for the mites to reach the birds,” says Big Dutchman sales manager Sebastian Dierken, explaining the big impact of the small innovation. The first flock of layers has already been moved into the new house.
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