Traditional laying duck farming is often associated with “water surfaces,” “muddy grounds,” and “labor-intensive” practices. Today, however, an “apartment building for laying ducks,” standing eight stories high and operating entirely on land, is running efficiently. In this edition of “On-Site Decoding,” we visit the Jiangsu Digital & Intelligent Duck Project to see how Big Herdsman redefines laying duck farming, pushing it towards new heights of intensification, intelligence, and cleanliness through the precise collaboration of six major systems.
What image comes to mind when you hear “laying duck farming”? If it’s duck manure everywhere, muddy grounds, unstable laying rates, and high costs for manual egg collection – then this project in Jiangsu will completely disrupt your perception. Here, laying ducks live in “modern apartments” with constant temperature, humidity, and controllable lighting. Every egg laid is automatically transported to the egg storage room via overhead rails. The core of all this is a complete digital and intelligent solution called the “Big Herdsman BHD500 Laying Duck Cage Rearing System.
01/ Decoding Space Efficiency
The project adopts a three-dimensional cage-rearing model with 6 columns, 8 tiers, and 42 groups, allowing a single building to house 48,000 laying ducks.
Decoding: This is not simply “stacking“; it’s a three-dimensional agricultural system designed based on duck ethology and environmental control fluid dynamics. It multiplies the farming efficiency per unit of land area, fundamentally alleviating the land constraints inherent in traditional flat rearing models.
02/ Decoding the Production Core
Cage System: Two ducks per cage, specially designed to prevent secondary egg contamination by feces.
Decoding: Reduces dirty and broken eggs at the physical structural level, ensuring higher marketable egg rates and a better starting point for food safety.
Feeding System: Mobile automatic feed trolleys, coordinating a powder sieving device.
Decoding: Ensures fresh, uniform feed distribution, reduces mold and selective feeding, stabilizing production performance from the nutritional source.
Watering System: Dual water lines with adjustable nipple heights.
Decoding: Meets the drinking comfort needs of ducks at different ages, ensuring sufficient water intake for each duck—a key physiological foundation for maintaining high laying rates.
Environmental Control System: Monitors and automatically adjusts temperature, humidity, ventilation, lighting, and other environmental factors in real-time.
Decoding: Creates a “comfort zone” for the ducks, reduces stress, allowing their genetic potential to be fully realized.
Automatic Egg Collection System: After being laid, eggs are transported via egg lines, arriving safely and cleanly at the egg storage room for sorting and packaging.
Automated Manure Removal System: Manure is cleared daily via conveyor belts, centralized transported out, and fermented into organic fertilizer, achieving “manure never touching the ground.”
Decoding: The automatic egg collection and manure removal systems not only completely liberate workers from heavy, repetitive labor but also significantly enhance biosecurity levels and egg hygiene standards through the process design of “eggs never exposed, manure never touching the ground.”
“Traditional farming relies on the weather, our farming relies on data. The Big Herdsman IoT system can provide early warnings for subtle environmental fluctuations or decreases in feed intake, allowing us to intervene and adjust before the laying rate declines. This is the secret to maintaining long-term peak performance.” – Laying Duck Farm Manager
The demonstrative significance of the Jiangsu Digital & Intelligent Duck Project lies in its successful validation of the feasibility of the cage-rearing model for laying ducks in large-scale commercial applications. What Big Herdsman provides is not merely a single set of cages, but a closed-loop, full-industry-chain solution encompassing animal welfare, precision nutrition, environmental control, and resource treatment.
By decoding space, decoding data, and decoding processes, we ultimately decode the inevitable path for the upgrading of the laying duck industry: replacing traditional production models dependent on natural conditions with controllable industrial and intelligent systems. This is not only a victory for efficiency but also the necessary path for the industry to move towards safety, stability, and sustainability.
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