Poultry products recognized in SPACE innovation awards

New and innovative chicken and egg production equipment, products and services were recognized at the SPACE 2017 INNOV’Space Awards.

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DSM’s Digital YolkFan is a digital extension of the company’s YolkFan, providing the same practicality and colors, but extended into a digital tool. | DSM
DSM’s Digital YolkFan is a digital extension of the company’s YolkFan, providing the same practicality and colors, but extended into a digital tool. | DSM

Chicken and egg production products once again were featured in the most recent Innov’Space awards, the awards program that has taken place each year at France’s trade show SPACE for more than two decades.

Across species, there were almost 160 products and services up for consideration.

Nine products were award one star last year, none were given two, but two products received the highest accolade – three stars.

THREE STARS

DSM Nutritional Product’s Digital YolkFan, developed in conjunction with Nix Sensor Ltd., was one of the two products last year to win three stars. Digital YolkFan brings egg color measurement into the digital era, and is the first color sensor developed to measure egg yolk color objectively.

Powered by a handheld Nix Sensor, which has its own light source and blocks out ambient light, the Digital YolkFan allows a more accurate and easy way of recording the color of egg yolks and displays results via a smartphone app.

PickPuck feed distribution equipment, from Big Dutchman International, has been designed to stimulate hens’ natural behavior of searching out food, helping to prevent boredom.

Also a recipient of three stars, PickPuck comprises a swinging plate with a coarse surface that is suspended below a drop pipe delivering feed. When a hen knocks or pecks the plate, a small amount of feed is dispensed which can then be eaten. The coarse nature of the plate also helps to wear down her beak. Grains that fall into the litter also help to promote natural scratching behavior.

ONE STAR

BlueFan ventilation equipment from Skov is a flange mounted corrosion-free fan with a cone and motor-controlled shutter. The BlueFan can be used in Combi-Tunnel and Tunnel ventilated houses and is controlled by the climate computer. It is available in a version focusing on low energy consumption and a version focusing on maximizing air output. Both are available in several variants.

BlueFan has a tightly closed motorized shutter, preventing unwanted air movement when not in operation, and a direct drive motor to reduce maintenance. The BlueFan is made of plastic and stainless steel and designed especially for the demanding house environment

Chicken’Lib is a mobile henhouse equipped with solar panels, meaning that it does not have to be near a source of electricity. Manufacturer Beiser Environnement notes that the house can be easily constructed using a forklift truck and is easy to move and manage. Blinds are installed to control light, while its ventilation inlets can be managed remotely. The mobile henhouse offers farmers energy savings, and can contribute to protecting health status when moving flocks.

Desvac Duo, (https://equipment.ceva.com/Products/Product-List/Desvac-Duo-Spray-Gel) from Ceva Sante Animale facilitates the simultaneous or separate application of vaccines and gels in the hatchery.

The equipment has two arms, adaptable to all conveyor types, and allows vaccines and gels to be applied in-line without the need to stop the movement of chick baskets, which saves time when compared to traditional methods.

Desvac Duo administers vaccines commonly used in the hatchery, while its gel delivery system can supply gels containing barrier flora, nutrients and rehydrating products.

Desvac Duo works with a colored liquid gel that can be applied as droplets across the whole surface of the basket, covering all chicks while, where vaccination is concerned, flat jets ensure that all chicks are vaccinated.

EW Nutrition’s Easy facilitates direct on farm addition of liquid compound feeds to compound feed. Easy’s simple technology, takes advantage of the feed conveyor’s available motion energy, making it both energy saving but eco-friendly. Other advantages of Easy are that it frees up water lines, often used to deliver vaccines or pharmaceuticals, and by not including liquid feeds in water lines biofilm growth is reduced.

Designed to be user-friendly, the product requires low financial investment and installed without technical support.

Firstlit  from Dugue is an automatic litter spreading system that delivers pelleted straw in poultry houses of any length and up to 30 meters in width.

The system comprises a 21 m2 silo, a screw to deliver pellets, a spreader, and a programmable controller. Suspended from the house’s roof structure, Firstlit evenly distributes litter throughout the house prior to stocking, or can top up litter once the flock is in place.

My.Luda.Farm,  from Luda Farm is a dashboard for use on smartphone, tablet or computer that collects data from sensors and cameras around the farm and gives the farmer remote control over critical equipment. Delivered through an easy to use interface, the application allows farmers to check cameras, turn equipment on and off, check fences or diesel levels.

Included in the platform is a simple taks management systemThe program allows farmers to link events together, for example, an alert can be linked to turning on a camera.

Included in the platform is a simple task management program, and the app can link events together and so, for example, an alert can be linked to turning on a camera.

Roxell’s Natural Break Smoothing-NBS  is a rough-surfaced broiler breeder feeding system to smooth birds’ beaks. The rough interiors of the feeding pans controls break growth continuously as birds eat.

Nectra Ultrascan can be used across species for candling from the fifth day of incubation. A multispectral ray is used to read the metabolic development eggs while ignoring interference from noise, light or electromagnetic fields.

Manufacturer Nectra says that the product offers improvements in incubation can be achieved through identifying the poorest positions in an incubator or egg tray, the impact of dead embryos on their live neighbors. The energy-saving Nectra Ultrascan raises health quality incubators by allowing the early removal of dead eggs. It is non-invasive, does not rely on lasers and can identify eggs that may have been placed upside down.

Scraper FAF. FAF’s galvanized steel Scraper can be adjusted to fit all pits, operated by a stainless steel cable molded with balls, which acts as a chain.  

No specific masonry is needed to support the scraper which is equipped with 24 volt motors and can be operated manually or automatically

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