Layers

Make money with layers by keeping your production up – Part 2

Declining day length Hens are sensitive to day length, and particularly to the direction in which day length is changing when it comes to laying eggs. Declining day lengths discou...

Livestock

4 Apr 2023 · 4 min read

Make money with layers by keeping your production up – Part 1

Layer farming means raising egg-laying birds for the purpose of commercial egg production. Due to their high nutritional value, the demand for eggs has continued to grow worldwide. Eggs ...

Livestock

15 Mar 2023 · 4 min read

De Haasenjagt Boerdery: Chicken farming done right

When a chicken farm sells all the eggs their 1 600 chickens lay per day within 24 hours, it is proof that they are doing something right. Reyno Colyn and Belinda Hattingh farm with chick...

Livestock

8 Dec 2022 · 7 min read