ISSUE FOCUS FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE May 2024 51 About Patrick Gloudemans Patrick Gloudemans is Product Manager Feeding System at Fancom BV. He has a strong expertise in smart farming solutions that help farmers to create superior conditions in the house for healthy and future-proof farming. Before joining Fancom six years ago, he spent 19 years working in feed and poultry equipment manufacturing organizations. Complete farm control climate | feeding | monitoring Superior conditions in the house for optimum bird performance DISCOVER MORE www.fancom.com MONITOR THE GROWTH OF YOUR ANIMALS Continuously weighing your animals provides an upto-date overview of the growth process in your house. Abnormal growth patterns are visible more quickly, so you can take timely measures to improve your results. Lack of growth that goes unnoticed in the first days of the fattening cycle is almost impossible to recover afterwards. And too rapid growth has a negative impact on animal development. If your animals are too heavy, they are probably being given too much feed. This leads to unnecessarily high feed costs. Weighing often provides insight into the vitality of the animals. If certain animals avoid the weigher, you could ask whether the animals are fit enough to move. Enhanced animal performance and lower feed costs will quickly recover the investment costs of a weighing system. CONCLUSION: AN AUTOMATIC SYSTEM SAVES TIME AND IMPROVES YOUR RESULTS Efficient automation of all the processes in the house provides the answers to questions such as: Are the animals healthy? How much feed and water are being consumed? Are the animals growing as expected or should I change my delivery schedules? Automatic systems save time and provide you with valuable information about the growth and health of your animals. Management information that is vital to steer towards a good, efficient performance.
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