Jan Kuijpers at his own hatchery. With the future poultry processing they will have the whole production chain in one farm. PHOTO: ELLEN MEINEN, AGRIO
All-in-one misting for healthy and affordable broilers The best broiler production system offers a safe and healthy environment for the birds as well as the workers. Providing the right temperature and relative humidity creates perfect conditions to perform. That is what Jan Kuijpers of Kuijpers Kip in Grubbenvorst, the Netherlands, successfully managed to do with a unique misting concept. ‘We can rely on it and trust that we will benefit from it.’ 60
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uijpers Kip is a one-ofa-kind broiler farm. The building design is different from what you would expect to see when you think of a poultry farm. More than 15 years ago, the Kuijpers family started to think about growing broilers affordably and sustainably, keeping animal welfare and important environmental issues in mind. Through close collaboration with a number of institutions and poultry system manufacturers, they succeeded to build an exceptional farm. It consists of a hatchery and four attached broiler houses for 64,000 birds each. They are in the first phase of the dream to build a self-supporting broiler farm on 9 hectares of land. In the near future, three more similar units will be built,
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