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At PW Maines, we understand the importance of monitoring every part of the operation 24/7. That’s why we ensure you have the right systems that allows you to give maximum quality to your production, in return for high welfare and output from your flock. 

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Poultry Automation Ensures Optimum Farming Conditions

For you, as a poultry farmer, it is of crucial importance to achieve the proper housing conditions for your animals. It allows them to grow better and perform optimally. The key to attaining the best possible control of your production process is automating and monitoring your barn processes enabling round the clock insight into the current situation in all your barns, allowing you to focus on an optimum living environment for your animals.

How to influence your chickens’ behavior by controlling feed, water, lighting and nests

If you want to maximize laying performance in cage-free houses you need to influence the daily routines of layers. Control systems, such as our Fortica® system, enable you as an egg producer to train your layers through smart feeding, watering and lighting regimes. With the Fortica® system, you can control nests and feed chains in multiple groups. This is particularly useful for sending the layers to the right floor and getting them back into the systems on time in cage-free houses.

Discover the advantages of poultry automation

  • Optimum barn conditions
  • Improved feed conversion
  • Excellent animal health
  • Greater returns and more profit
  • Better animal performance
  • Ease of use
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Complete Poultry Automation

Hotraco Agri offers complete poultry automation systems that regulate, control and monitor all your barn processes. These poultry automation systems are suitable for all types of housing for broilers, layers, breeders and pullets and can be remotely controlled via computer, tablet or smartphone.

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Farm Management

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Integrated Control Panels

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Remote Control

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Feed and Water Control

With Hotraco Agri’s automatic feed and water control system, you can be sure your animals are getting the right amount of feed and that you gain insight into feed consumption and feed costs. This system also helps you improve feed conversion and gives you a better indication of the health of your animals. 

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Feed Registration with Silo Weighing

Automatic feed control and daily insight into feed consumption is made possible by Hotraco Agri’s silo weighing system. The system automatically sends the right amount of feed from the silo to the hoppers in the house. The amount of feed is determined based on the number of grams per animal per day. To accurately determine the amount of feed in the silo, we use weighing cells under the silo. This gives you insight into the daily feed consumption, and you know when you need to order feed again.

Feed Registration with Electronic Feed Weigher

Before the feed goes into the barn, it is first sent from the silo to an electronic feed weigher. This is the most accurate method of feed control. It is also the perfect solution if you want to mix several types of feed. The feed weigher weighs the portions precisely and maintains the correct mixing ratio of several types of feed.

Hopper Feeding for Breeders

Do you want to keep your animals in optimum condition, to achieve the maximum number of hatching eggs and a high fertilisation rate? You can, with Hotraco Agri’s hopper feeding control. It was specially developed for breeders and pullets. With this control, you can do more than just ration the feed; the system can also control the amount of feed and feed composition for cocks and hens separately.

Automatic Feed Control for Every Feeding System

With Hotraco’s automatic feed control system it does not matter which feeding system you use in the barn: feed chains, feed pans or a spin feeder that spreads the feed over the litter. The choice is yours!

Lift Control of Feed and Drink Lines

Do you want to improve the uniformity of the flock? Then it is important that all the animals in the barn eat about the same amount. Hotraco Agri has developed a lift control with this in mind that raises and lowers the feed lines. The feed lines are filled in the raised position and are then all lowered again at the same time. This ensures that all the animals can start eating at the same time. The position of the feed and drink lines can also be adjusted to the age of the animals.

Water Monitoring

Drinking water is just as important for your animals as feed. With our automation system, you can keep a close eye on the water consumption and you are warned about any deviations.

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Animal Weighing

As a poultry farmer, it is important for you to be able to monitor your animals’ growth closely. Hotraco Agri’s animal weighing solutions show you the average weight, uniformity and distribution among the animals in the flock. This gives you a continuously up-to-date picture of how the weight development is progressing. It can also provide a good indication of the health of your animals. 

Weighing solution for broilers

With Hotraco’s animal weighing solution, you get insight into the growth performance of your broilers so you know when they have reached the optimum weight. You can also use this system to monitor animals that are on a restricted diet or special feeding schedule. Deviations become visible quickly, so you can take timely action and improve the results.

Benefits of automatic animal weighing

  • Insight into daily growth of body weight
  • Indication of bird health
  • Uniformity of the flock
  • Optimal planning for processing

Animal weighing scales for various situations

PW Maines provide Hotraco animal weighing scales for all types of poultry and differing types of housing systems. The principle behind Hotraco’s animal weighing solution is disparate weighing, which is distinguished by the scale. This enables the systems to accurately determine the average weight of the animals.

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DWS-4-ZW

For broilers and breeders in free range housing

The DWS-4-ZW is a weighing platform for broiler chicks and breeders that range freely throughout the poultry house and can be used in various housing facilities and free range systems. The DWS-4-ZW is also suitable for hens and roosters and can weigh animals up to 12 kg. 

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DWS-5-ZW

For layers in aviaries

The DWS-5-ZW is a weighing system with a perch for layers that can be used in aviaries (small-scale or otherwise) which can be suspended as desired throughout the barn. The perch is a 1” stave (33.7 mm in diameter and 460 mm in length) and can be adjusted in height. 

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DWS-6-ZW

For broilers and pullets

The DWS-6-ZW is a weighing system with a platform for aviaries (small-scale or otherwise). The DSW- 6-ZW can also be used in broiler houses. The roosting platform is 231 x 302 mm and is meant to be suspended in the system. 

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