In the egg-laying poultry farming chain, the brooding and rearing period is the "starting line" that determines subsequent laying performance. However, traditional brooding models often face challenges such as unstable temperature control, poor uniformity, and high disease risks.

On April 11, Zuo Lingling, Deputy Director-General of the National Animal Husbandry Station, along with Wan Qiang, Director of the Animal Husbandry Production Guidance Division, Zhu Feng, Deputy Director-General of the Shandong Provincial Animal Husbandry Station, Sha Jianlin, Deputy Director of the Qingdao Municipal Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, Liang Liang, Director of the Animal Husbandry Division, and Zhou Wei, Director of the Municipal Animal Husbandry Workstation, visited Big Herdsman Machinery (Jiaozhou) Co., Ltd. for research and guidance.

From a stable state-owned enterprise position to becoming an individual entrepreneur in the business world; from deeply engaging in feed trading to venturing into layer chicken farming; and then, in 2023, resolutely bidding farewell to the feed business he had cultivated for nearly thirty years — Dai Xiaofang, Chairman of Hubei Chenke Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Group, has used nearly three decades as his pen and “giving up and gaining” as his ink. On the vast land of Jingchu (Hubei), he has carved out a path full of choices yet always steadfast, writing an epic of struggle that belongs to China’s poultry farmers.

On March 28, Qingdao Big Herdsman Machinery Co., Ltd. and Bofa Farming Co. officially signed a cooperation agreement for a project with an annual output of 15 million white-feather broilers.